Eric Newcomer

So I don't really get tired of the AI story.

I mean, certainly AI is dominating, you know,

basically all the investment activities.

So it becomes a huge focus of ours.

So no, I'm less likely to get dragged into the Snap Spectacle stuff.

I mean, it's always fun to watch for new hardware, but just this question of, you know, are workers getting totally disrupted?

Will, you know, change the course of American business?

We have these enormous IPOs.

So it's one of the more enjoyable times to be a business reporter where the stuff you want to write about, which is

A new intelligence being birthed by Silicon Valley matches the market caps and what's interesting.

Following the money, for the most part, has been a super gratifying story.

We tend to stay pretty focused on that.

I think there's at least one guy clearly ranked above me who's using AI to write the stuff, which is just fascinating.

Yeah, I mean, I think coming from a perspective, being a person, so transcending just a writing style, but it is literally someone in a publication is accountable, is defensible.

But certainly as the sort of writing quality of AI gets better and better, I'm not ruling out the possibility that it's super disruptive.

Yeah, like you said, scoops.

I think the sense that...

The information is coming from real humans that I'm in the business of knowing what other humans are thinking is fairly defensible.

But we're using AI to build our ticketing platform for our events.

One of my reporters was talking about using it just to build his own library.