Thomas Claburn

On September 26, 2024, a Register report tied IBM’s AI ambitions to doubts about whether its technology could deliver on planned workforce replacement.

Who they are

Thomas Claburn appears in this coverage as a technology journalist at The Register, with a confirmed byline for a Q&A with software developer Simon Willison on AI. His associated stories and co-occurrences place him around platform companies, AI, cybersecurity, internet infrastructure, and the evolving social-web ecosystem.

The recent arc

Coverage reached its most concentrated recent phase in 2024, spanning Microsoft’s changes to Recall after privacy and security criticism, Apple’s decision to withhold Apple Intelligence and iPhone Mirroring in the EU over Digital Markets Act interoperability requirements, and a shift in Patreon’s iOS billing after Apple’s fee pressure. The thread is less a single company beat than scrutiny of how major platforms implement consequential product and policy changes.