Having just arrived in Bilbao on Sunday for the DigitalTek Awards, and thinking about my presentation for today, I came across an article in TechCrunch about what startup founders should consider with respect to AI in 2024, i.e. a rethink of business models. The first important question is to understand…

The development of machine learning and AI and their application to more and more uses raises important questions about the future of many industries. Companies in the pharmaceutical industry work on the discovery of a molecule for many years and after lengthy clinical trials and waiting for regulatory approval, enjoy…

A rigorous study based on a sample of more than 12,000 children in the United States shows that exposure to screens causes no cognitive impairment or negative effects on their brains, cognition or well-being, hopefully bringing to an end once and for all to the moral panic of recent years. …

Thursday was an interesting day: a group of my MBA students at IE University gave a class presentation on the enshittification of Amazon using as their starting point the now famous article by Cory Doctorow, that I had assigned as a recommended reading for my innovation course. Thanks to my…

Finally, Sam is back. After several days of conversations, a number of people having left the board, a couple of others back where they belong, and the lesson learned that it is better to let the scientists focus on science and stay away from management. Let’s take it one step…

A very interesting article in The Washington Post, “Electric vehicles are hitting a road block: car dealers”, reveals how carmakers looking to put EVs at the center of their sales strategy are being blocked by their own car dealers. The main reason dealerships hate EVs is that they don’t create…

The mind-boggling soap opera now unfolding at OpenAI after its board decided on Friday to sack its co-founder, Sam Altman, via videoconference, and the subsequent departure of its CEO, Greg Brockman, took a new twist when the company’s leading partner, Microsoft, said on Monday that while it maintains its full…

Antònia Justícia, a journalist at Catalan daily La Vanguardia, called me to talk about the collapse of dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, Meetic and many others. Here’s her Spanish-language article (pdf), in which she covers many of the issues we discussed. The pressures on this business model are many and…

The big story in the tech world this week is OpenAI’s unexpected decision to sack one of its co-founders, the media-savvy Sam Altman, as CEO, replacing him on an interim basis with the company’s CTO, Mira Murati, an engineer of Albanian origin who had been with the company since 2018…