I’m a tech journalist at The New Stack and I also run an internet history website called Cybercultural. I used to run a Web 2.0 blog named ReadWriteWeb.
I've been closely following the intersection of web and AI this year, so who better to talk to about this than Jason Mayes, who leads Web AI initiatives at Google. For Google, Web AI is primarily about running client-side AI in the browser. The two key Web AI
2025 is a strange time to start a newsletter about web technology. The past four editions of WTN have focused on the intersection of the web and AI, because frankly that's where most of the excitement is on today's internet. But as a few people I
This week I spoke to Vercel’s Andrew Qu about the company’s recent experiments running a full Next.js application inside ChatGPT. OpenAI's apps were originally designed for relatively limited HTML pages (at least compared to Vercel's SPAs), delivered through a tightly sandboxed, triple-nested iframe
The big news this week was the launch of OpenAI's new browser, Atlas, which further validates my thesis that the web has become the UI layer for AI systems. Reactions to Atlas have been mixed (I have a selection of quotes below), but so far I have two
There's been a quiet inversion happening in internet technology: after a decade of smartphone apps dominance, the web is becoming the default interface layer again. Of course, this time it's for AI. I know many of you continue to be skeptical of AI and what it&
This week we saw the launch of a new application platform: OpenAI's ChatGPT apps, including a platform for third-party developers to submit apps to be embedded in ChatGPT. Most intriguing for web tech fans: the defining trait of OpenAI's software developer kit, Apps SDK, is its
I have lots of chunky web tech news for you this week, but first a quick note on a few changes around here. I want to make this newsletter more appealing to business people on the web (including techies!), so the site's description is now: "Web Technology
I got to talk to one of the rock stars of frontend development this week. No, not DHH! I mean a young man named Evan You, whose Vite build tool is the backbone of many of the leading frontend frameworks of today: React, You's own Vue.js, SvelteKit,
This week, we may have witnessed the beginning of the end for the traditional web browser. On Thursday, Google announced a raft of new AI features in Chrome, with further “agentic capabilities” to be added in the coming months. As I noted in my report on The New Stack, essentially
This week I have been looking closely at how the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been moving to integrate AI into the web platform. In my analysis for The New Stack, I looked at a W3C group called the AI Agent Protocol Community Group, whose co-chairs (both from China)
Welcome to Web Technology News (WTN), my weekly newsletter tracking what's next on the web. This week I look at some of the moves Cloudflare has been making to help web publishers and content creators deal with AI companies that "leverage" (to put it politely) open
I've been pondering what the fate of the Web will be as we continue to progress into the AI era... (For this issue of Web Technology News (WTN), my weekly newsletter tracking what's next on the web, I'm introducing a blog-like 'preamble'