Ian Chaffee

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Ian Chaffee is a technology and startup media relations consultant based in Los Angeles. He has been a contributor to Barron’s, Newsweek, SiliconANGLE and The Hill.

March 2, 2026

If it ain’t the singularity, it’ll do till the singularity gets here

MEA CULPA. In 2023, I wrote that even amid the AI tech bubble, “human-generated content” would still be king. Now, I’m not so sure. (The irony—or appropriateness—of Newsweek being where Cliff Stoll’s infamous, premature burial of the World…

January 20, 2025

In two weeks that feel like a decade, everything and nothing changes

There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen, as I think some dead Russian philosopher once said. We’ve gotten a lot of those decade-weeks in the first three decades of…