Harry McCracken

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Fast Company Global Technology Editor. Boy journalist. Bon vivant. Lefthander. Westcoastian. 🇺🇦 Sign up for my free Plugged In newsletter: https://www.fastcompany.com/section/plugged-in
I wrote about Sora’s demise—I, for one, will miss it—and what it augers for OpenAI and maybe other AI companies as well. https://www.fastcompany.com/91516193/openai-sora-discontinued
With Sora’s death, AI’s age of frivolity may be ending

I’m not embarrassed to admit I liked OpenAI’s synthetic video social network. But I understand why it’s going bye-bye.

Fast Company
Paging Mr. False Equivalency…
@PenguinToot Even 1% of his 10% is a fortune. Thanks!

Two reasons why I’m not interested in letting AI ghostwrite for me:

1) Writing is how I think things through and come to conclusions.

2) Above all, I am motivated by the possibility that I have not yet written the best thing I’ll ever write.

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

WIRED
I’ve never once wanted to use Siri in order to use ChatGPT. The whole idea of one AI being a gateway to another seems like an unhealthy stopgap. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/apple-plans-to-open-up-siri-to-rival-ai-assistants-beyond-chatgpt-in-ios-27
The memories in this story are so precious, and I’m very grateful to the 23 people who shared them. Some were teenagers when Apple was born, but most were in their 20s, 30s, or even 40s back then. https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl
How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days

The true story of how Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and other bright young tech hobbyists of the 1970s joined forces to ignite a revolution.

Fast Company
@troed Thank you, and thank you—fixed.
Among the things that surprised me as I interviewed people for our oral history of Apple’s origin story is that several people referred to the very young Steve Jobs doing things that are more technical than I associate with him. https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=kiimQhPOTihz
I can’t begin to tell you how much fun I had talking to people who were present at Apple’s creation—Woz, of course, but so many more. I learned so much, and really did feel like I was there. So will you, I think. Here’s a gift link which you’re welcome to share: https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl
How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days

The true story of how Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and other bright young tech hobbyists of the 1970s joined forces to ignite a revolution.

Fast Company
Melania Trump Appears With a Robot, Saying More Children Should Be Educated by Them

The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.”

The New York Times