Kara Swisher über den blinden Fleck, der Big Tech kaputt machte

*Editor-at-Large Mishal Husain for Bloomberg News*

After a year of dominating mega-deals and driving stock-market gains, the tech industry is poised for a pivotal 2026 that centers largely on one question: Can AI start to show that it’s worth the massive investments being made?

To anticipate what lies ahead, we turned to a woman who’s tracked Silicon Valley since the 1990s, covering companies from AOL to OpenAI and players from Steve Jobs to Elon Musk. Kara Swisher started out writing for *The Washington Post* and *The Wall Street Journal*, but over time her deep knowledge — and her concern about industry failings — turned her into more of a commentator and critic. She’s also an entrepreneur in her own right, becoming a podcaster early on. Today her wide interests are in evidence on her two shows for Vox Media: *On With Kara Swisher* and *Pivot*.

Crucially, she’s unafraid to tell it as she sees it. Think of this as a Swisher sitrep — one year on from the tech industry lining up behind US President Donald Trump — and her take on the advances and people to watch in the year ahead.

[Read the full interview here.](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-kara-swisher-weekend-interview/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NzM1MzQ4MSwiZXhwIjoxNzY3OTU4MjgxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUODgzSTRLR0lGUEUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.0yRd7jrzNsp2cT9DAcTLJQdfo3WEOvx1p4lwcHLQnv4) You can also [listen to this interview](https://omny.fm/shows/the-mishal-husain-show/kara-swisher-is-thinking-about-life-after-trump) and follow The Mishal Husain Show on [iHeart Podcasts](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-mishal-husain-show-300204707/), [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mishal-husain-show/id1845840408), [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/4cJNIDbIEyNyaS7EWVh5Hh) or wherever you get your podcasts.