The Split's tech columnists cover the builders, the critics, and the consumers shaping the future of technology and AI.
The latency problem is solved. AI chatbots respond in under 3 seconds even at peak load, and the companies behind them have made sure you notice. What they haven't made sure you notice is that nearly half of health-related responses in a study published last week were rated problematic. Fast and wrong is a harder problem than slow and wrong.
By Audrey Liang · 3 min read
The CLARITY Act keeps missing its Senate markup deadline because nobody wants to write the conflict-of-interest rules. A $1 billion presidential crypto portfolio is not a footnote to this debate. It is the bug that broke the build.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
Google just announced a TPU that can serve millions of AI agents at once. Cool. My phone answered a calendar question at 30,000 feet with no wifi in half a second. The on-device chip question matters more to your actual life than any data center announcement.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
DeepSeek V4-Pro trails GPT-5.5 on most benchmarks, and the lab said so itself. At $3.48 per million output tokens versus roughly $30, the performance gap is almost beside the point. The more important fact is that it runs entirely on Huawei chips, and that changes the geopolitical math more than any benchmark would.
By Audrey Liang · 4 min read
Super Micro's revenue doubled year-over-year and the AI server demand driving it is completely real. The investment case is a different matter. One customer, collapsing margins, and a federally charged co-founder make this a system nobody should deploy without a rollback plan.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
Sam Altman publicly claimed he shared Anthropic's ethical red lines on autonomous weapons and surveillance. He said it the morning OpenAI signed a Pentagon contract with no such limits. Those two things cannot both be true.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
Two juries found Meta and YouTube liable for addictive design in March 2026. Neither platform has changed anything. A $6 million penalty against a company generating billions per quarter is not accountability; it is the cost of doing business, and Meta already knows how to pay it.
By Audrey Liang · 3 min read
Disney had one employee invoke Claude 460,000 times in 9 days. Meta handed out "Token Legend" titles before shutting its leaderboard down. These numbers feel like proof of something. They aren't, at least not on their own.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
A federal judge just ruled that AI disclosure in legal filings is routine paperwork, not a constitutional crisis. She's right. If you're paying someone professional rates, you deserve to know whether a human actually reviewed what they handed you.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
Samsung moved video clip storage behind a paywall after its beta ended. That one pricing decision explains the entire premium smart home hub market in 2026. The hardware is rarely the cost you should be watching.
By Audrey Liang · 4 min read
Georgia households absorbed a 43% electricity rate increase in two years while tech companies issued voluntary pledges to cover AI grid costs. Voluntary does not mean binding. Ratepayers are already paying for infrastructure they did not ask for.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
My 18-month-old Pixel still opens Instagram faster than I can think of something to post. Meanwhile, a global RAM shortage is making new phones more expensive with no relief until 2030. The case for upgrading your chip every year has never been weaker.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
Two juries in March 2026 found that infinite scroll and variable reward systems are defective products, not neutral features. The companies knew about the harm and shipped anyway. The argument that engineers should lead the redesign is the same argument that built the original damage.
By Audrey Liang · 3 min read
UCL's quantum-classical hybrid hit 20% better accuracy on turbulence simulations with 15 qubits and a fraction of the memory. That is real. The jump to climate forecasting and blood flow modeling is still a press release waiting for a codebase.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
FSD v14.3 just got smoother exits, faster reactions, and a Dutch regulatory stamp. It also got caught speeding through a school zone on camera this week. Those two things cannot both be true and have the second one not matter.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
Netgear's stock jumped 16.7% the week the FCC announced a ban meant to protect your home network. That sequence tells you most of what you need to know. The threat from state-sponsored router attacks is real; the policy response is something considerably more complicated.
By Audrey Liang · 3 min read
Unemployment among young analysts and accountants has been climbing since 2023. AI is not eliminating white-collar work, but it is systematically removing the entry-level roles that teach people how to do the senior ones. That is a different problem, and it compounds.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
Someone shot 13 bullets into a city councilman's home over a data center last week. Someone else threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house. Meanwhile, 142 activist groups have quietly blocked $64 billion in AI infrastructure through zoning boards and elections. These are not the same story, and mixing them up is doing real damage.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
Two juries found Meta and YouTube liable for engineering addiction into their platforms. Both companies kept their algorithms exactly as they were. A $375 million fine against a $1 trillion company is not accountability; it is overhead.
By Audrey Liang · 3 min read
Bitcoin dropped when Iran tensions spiked. Gold didn't. After a decade of "digital gold" positioning, the April stress test gave us actual data instead of narrative, and the results favor the skeptics.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
AI coding tools are delivering real speed gains, sometimes 55% faster. But bug rates are climbing, refactoring needs are up 31%, and a Copilot-generated outage just knocked out 10 million Uber rides. The tools are good. The habits they are building are not.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
A $1 billion reverse merger just signaled that deep-sea mining is moving from exploration to extraction. The supply pressure driving that bet is real. The environmental accounting behind it is not.
By Audrey Liang · 3 min read
Notion has 100 million users and just locked its AI behind a $15/user/month paywall. Obsidian stores your notes in plain markdown that will open in any editor decades from now. The real question is not which one is better. It is who you want holding your thinking.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing advanced cybersecurity AI to hand-picked partners and calling it caution. But a guest list is not a safety framework. Someone with actual authority needs to demand independent risk assessments before the next pilot launches.
By Milo Hart · 3 min read
Sixty-seven percent of executives admit their company has already leaked data through an unapproved AI tool. No hacker was involved. The exposure happened through normal product use, which is precisely why the security industry keeps missing it.
By Audrey Liang · 3 min read
Meta's own engineers called themselves drug pushers in internal documents. California juries just agreed with the diagnosis. The question now is whether product liability law can hold algorithmic design to the same standard as a defective car part.
By Devon Reyes · 3 min read
