Matthew Urwin
Staff Reporter at Built In
Expertise: Tech journalism
Education: Ohio State
Matthew Urwin is a Built In staff reporter on the editorial team. He has written for The HOTH, BKA Content and Cox Automotive, covering solar energy, auto repairs, business technology and other topics.
He has a degree in English literature with minors in professional writing and comparative studies from Ohio State.
Sort By
Most Recent
133 Articles
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that lets users bet on the outcomes of real-world events. Its peer-to-peer model is powered by blockchain technology, promising to reshape the future of trading even amidst growing regulatory scrutiny.
Anthropic set out in its latest study to predict how artificial intelligence could impact the labor market. Instead, its findings raise more questions than answers for tech workers as the U.S. government refuses to regulate the AI industry.
Trump announced a national framework proposing a single federal rule to replace state laws regulating artificial intelligence. But this framework may simply perpetuate his hands-off approach, drawing more backlash from an anxious American public.
As Anthropic clashes with the Pentagon and OpenAI faces backlash for its own defense contracts, Google has quietly expanded government access to its agentic platform, strengthening its position in the AI race while sidestepping much public scrutiny.
The rise of AI agents is sparking predictions of a “SaaSpocalypse,” where traditional software-as-a-service becomes irrelevant. But this disruption could also mean that SaaS evolves, creating new career opportunities for tech workers in the age of AI.
Meta’s glasses combine elements of augmented reality and AI to support hands-free interactions with other smart devices. These specs could spearhead the next wave of AI-first devices — as well as a host of privacy risks.
With global backlash against data centers mounting, some tech companies are exploring a radical idea: launching them into space. But this may not be feasible or effective at solving data centers’ existing issues.
As the Trump administration pushes allies to adopt the U.S. AI stack, many governments are pursuing “tech sovereignty” — the ability to control the technologies that power their economies and national security.
Artificial intelligence will be front and center in this year’s midterms — and likely many more elections to come. From disrupting traditional party lines to contributing to misinformation, AI could reshape the very nature of American politics.
A disagreement over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance has led the Trump administration to sever federal ties with Anthropic — and take the extraordinary step of designating it a “supply-chain risk.”
A growing number of states want to temporarily halt the construction of new data centers to address mounting energy and cost concerns. The effort aims to protect communities, but it could also test the sustainability of the AI industry’s breakneck growth.
Humanoid robots are about to level up with “AI brains” — AI systems powered by advanced models that can learn to adapt to new situations. They’re still a work in progress, but they could sing that the skilled trades aren’t so AI-proof after all.