The Datable

Something incredible is happening (again) with time . I’m using “ TimeShift ” to describe the recurring pattern where breakthrough innovations restructure how humans spend their productive hours. You...

Several important things are happening simultaneously. As memory and compute combine , we're going to see a massive leap in the capabilities of what appears to be intelligence . This rapid evolution...

There are a few commercials from my youth that I will never forget. To this day, they still make me laugh when one of my siblings brings them up or quotes them (“ He likes it! Hey, Mikey?! ”). I...

AI makes it incredibly hard to spot errors, which is not a new problem so much as the acceleration of an old one. We have been conditioned for generations to accept convincing narratives, starting...

The line between the search bar and a chat window is disappearing, creating a new, continuous experience. Things are changing fast, and I've noticed a growing complacency with AI in the adoption of...

Sam Altman’s recent comment on the dead internet theory got a lot of attention (not in a good way), and it’s what prompted me to consider how this idea could be taken even further. Internet Response:...

Google's " Click to enter AI Mode " is the new QWERTY keyboard layout. Deliberately inefficient friction that slows down an interface we're not ready to handle at full speed. Christopher Sholes...

Two data points define the current AI moment. MIT found 95% of companies see zero return from their AI investments. AI search tools now capture 38% of desktop search traffic, according to new data...

My Commodore 64 had 64 kilobytes of memory. That's smaller than most email signatures today. You could fit its entire memory capacity in the thumbnail image of this article. Yet somehow that beige...

In many meetings I'm in, companies are choosing AI extremes right now: total adoption or total rejection. This polarization echoes Abraham Maslow's 1966 observation: "If the only tool you have is a...

OpenAI rolled out GPT-5 with automatic model switching last week. The backlash came immediately . OpenAI doubled GPT-5 rate limits for ChatGPT Plus users in response, partly because users complained...

Some major announcements and shifts are happening. OpenAI just launched gpt-oss , their open-source model similar to o3-mini and 4o-mini. Google launched a world engine called Genie, and we are...

Simple questions shouldn't require complex answers, yet every AI platform today burns massive compute returning multi-paragraph responses to queries that need three words. Ask Google's AI Mode what...

AI has a usability crisis. Not because the technology isn't powerful. Because users don't know when to use which model. Grok's new automatic model selection might be the solution that unlocks...

Every week, I share content from Datable on LinkedIn and Twitter. Lately, the negativity surrounding AI has turned angry. There's a pattern here, too. The criticism always spikes right before major...

The conventional wisdom about search fragmentation contains a blind spot. We’ve seen this many times before when a market undergoes a significant innovation or restructuring. Market analysts tracking...

The debate about artificial intelligence and whether it constitutes "real thinking" has reached a fever pitch. After a few days’ break from writing, this topic seemed most relevant. On one side,...

The future of AI development just got a lot more interesting. And frankly, a little surreal. I genuinely can’t keep up with the pace of change in the last few weeks, and, appropriately, it seems that...

AI is entirely too agreeable . Ask ChatGPT to disagree with you, and it will politely decline (as shown above). Request that Anthropic’s Claude challenge your assumptions, and it will offer gentle...

The last four weeks felt like watching an entire industry transform in real time. From SEO Week in New York City with Mike King and Garrett Sussman 's team at iPullRank, to #SXSW panels in London...

The internet exploded this week over new research questioning whether AI models actually "think" or merely simulate reasoning. The paper reveals that our desperate need to anthropomorphize technology...

AI adoption moves fast. Faster than companies realize. While executives debate whether AI resembles "that internet thing," the technology already changes how consumers find information. This isn't...

We're witnessing the death of search as we know it. Not because search is broken. Because something better is emerging. Search today is chess. AI tomorrow is jazz. The shift from discrete to...

The most dangerous thing in business isn't competition. It's complacency. It's also not understanding what's already possible. Right now, there is a significant gap between what AI can do and what...

We're experiencing something unprecedented. Claude Sonnet 4 dropped (Anthropic, 2025). Google I/O happened (Google, 2025). Jony Ive and Sam Altman announced their new venture (TechCrunch, 2025). The...