About tek54

tek54 is an editorial technology publication for people who build, regulate, and use the future. We cover artificial intelligence, hardware, policy, science, and business — with the time and rigour those stories deserve. We are not a wire service and we are not a hype machine; we are a newsroom that believes technology is now a story about power, money, and people, and should be reported as such.

What we cover

Our desks map to where the consequential decisions are being made. Each is led by correspondents with real subject expertise rather than a rotating cast of generalists.

• Artificial Intelligence — the models, the labs, the agents, and the limits nobody can engineer away.
• Hardware — chips, fabs, batteries, and the physical machines the digital world is built on.
• Policy — regulation, antitrust, and the rules that decide how technology touches everyone else.
• Science — energy, space, and long-horizon research that does not fit a quarterly report.
• Business — markets, strategy, and the money moving underneath the headlines.

How we are funded

tek54 is independent. We are funded by a combination of reader support and advertising. Advertising is served programmatically through Google and is kept strictly separate from the journalism: our newsroom takes no direction from advertisers, and commercial relationships never influence what we choose to cover or how we cover it. Where any such relationship is relevant to a story, we disclose it in that story.

How we work

We favour depth over volume. A single investigation can take months; a profile, weeks. Time-to-read is shown on every story because respecting your attention is the whole point — we would rather publish one piece that matters than ten that do not.

Our newsroom is remote-first and spans San Francisco, London, Brussels, Tokyo, and a dozen places in between. What unites it is a simple standard: be specific, be fair, and show your working.

Where this is all heading

Look closely at the present and you can already make out the shape of the world we are walking into — neon and rain and chrome, a handful of companies larger than most governments, the street and the network quietly fused into one. It is thrilling. It is a little dystopian. And it is arriving a good deal faster than anyone actually voted for.

We will not pretend to know how the story ends. But when the lights come up over a city that never goes dark and the megacorps start narrating reality back to you, you will want a newsroom that did not blink and did not sell out — somewhere still telling you what is really happening on the ground. We intend to be that signal. There is a reason we are on channel 54.

Contact

Story tips and feedback: [email protected]. For corrections, see our ethics policy. For commercial and press enquiries: [email protected].