Boston
MGMT Boston Covers Boston Tech by Turning the Ecosystem Into a Contact List
MGMT Boston is building a media company around Boston startups, operators, events, data, and the beautiful local art of making networking feel productive.
Media
Alex Heath Joins Sound Ventures. The Fourth Estate Would Like a Pro Rata Allocation.
Alex Heath is joining Sound Ventures while keeping Sources. Tech media’s revolving door now comes with a podcast microphone and a seat at the cap table.
Artificial Intelligence
Kevin Roose Called Out Ed Zitron on X. Nuance Logged Off.
Kevin Roose’s attack on Ed Zitron points to real missed predictions—and shows why AI needs tougher interviews, not fewer skeptical voices in public.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Travis Kalanick’s Podcast Comeback Is Selling Atoms—and Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick’s podcast surge is a masterclass in founder reintroduction. Here is what Atoms does—and why his reputation is now infrastructure.
Satire
TBPN Is on Vacation. Please Launch 10,000 Worse TBPNs Immediately.
TBPN is on vacation until August 31. SiliconSnark proposes two weeks of daily three-hour imitation shows to keep tech properly over-broadcast.
OpenAI
Sam Altman Has Started Posting Like He Bought a Tech Talk Show Because He Did
OpenAI bought TBPN on April 2, and by the April 23 GPT-5.5 rollout, Sam Altman's launch posts suddenly sounded less like lab comms and more like a founder-host who knows how the feed works.