Thomas Claburn

Bio

Senior reporter at The Register with nearly 30 years of tech publishing experience. Specialty in government IT, software development, and AI ethics. Roles ranged from magazine section editor to editor-at-large. Previously at InformationWeek, Wired Magazine, and Ziff Davis. Also a software developer and fiction writer. BA Humanities from UC Berkeley, MFA Film Production from SF State. Based in San Francisco.

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Thomas Claburn has been covering the practical (and often underwhelming) impact of AI on business and employment, reporting on Cloudflare’s bot-blocking efforts, the limited success of generative AI, and studies showing no job displacement

Recent articles

• Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pagesThe Register · Jul 1, 2026
• Generative AI does nothing for 95 percent of companiesThe Register · Aug 18, 2025
• Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AIThe Register · Mar 5, 2026
• AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale studyThe Register · Oct 1, 2025

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