Dave Lee

I'm a journalist based in New York City. I write a twice-weekly column about technology for Bloomberg Opinion. Follow me on Twitter Threads Bluesky, find me on LinkedIn, or send me an email.

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My recent writing

• 17 Feb, 2026 How Real Is a $1.6 Trillion AI Backlog?
• 16 Feb, 2026 Meta Is Wrong to Try to Sneak Into Privacy Intrusion
• 05 Feb, 2026 Google Backs Up $185 Billion in AI Spending With Receipts
• 04 Feb, 2026 The AI-Only Social Network Isn’t Plotting Against Us
• 30 Jan, 2026 Apple Gives Itself the Toughest Act to Follow

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Blog

• 17 Feb, 2026 Antifa in court
• 16 Feb, 2026 The Broomway
• 15 Feb, 2026 'Johnson is not a force'
• 14 Feb, 2026 Blood in the machine
• 12 Feb, 2026 AI job creation
• 12 Feb, 2026 Predictable
• 11 Feb, 2026 Manosphere report
• 11 Feb, 2026 Secret stop
• 09 Feb, 2026 Russia's grinding war
• 08 Feb, 2026 You can call it the Super Bowl

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