Los Angeles: A Different California
Before moving to California, I assumed San Francisco and Los Angeles were simply different versions of the same idea. I quickly discovered they are completely different worlds. San Francisco feels...
Building AI infrastructure between Europe and Silicon Valley
Moving from France to Silicon Valley changed the way I think about technology. Before arriving in California, I viewed artificial intelligence primarily through the lens of applications, innovation and digital...
Longevity and the rise of the human operating system
One of the most surprising trends I have observed during my first year in Silicon Valley has little to do with artificial intelligence. At least, not directly. While AI dominates...
The rise of physical AI
For much of the last decade, artificial intelligence lived on screens. We experienced it through search engines, recommendation systems, copilots, chatbots and increasingly capable software interfaces. Intelligence was something that...
The Movies That Made Me Dream of Silicon Valley
Long before I ever boarded a plane to California, Silicon Valley already occupied a special place in my imagination. Like many people around the world, my first exposure to the...
Cloud, edge and the new geography of intelligence
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In Silicon Valley, Networking Is the New Nightlife
After attending hundreds of events over the past year in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, I have come to realize something surprising: The social life here is fundamentally different from...
AI, energy and water: the sustainability challenge nobody talks about
Artificial intelligence is often presented as an immaterial technology. The public imagination associates AI with software, algorithms and digital experiences. Models generate text, create images, write code and answer questions...
Learning to give back in San Francisco
When people think about Silicon Valley, they usually think about technology. Artificial intelligence. Startups. Venture capital. Unicorn companies. The next breakthrough innovation. After spending nearly a year living in the...
Waymo: The First Time I Felt Like I Was Living in the Future
Before moving to Silicon Valley, Waymo felt almost like a myth. I had seen videos online. I had read articles about autonomous vehicles. I knew Google had been working on...