Silicon Valley and the tech industry are known for their “move fast and break things” mantra. This has been how the software industry has operated forever basically. In fact, the modus operandi has probably accelerated in recent years. Breaking things almost seems like the goal sometimes. Well, Waymo was spawned … [continued]
AI is useful. Let me get that out of the way. What we are mostly referring to as AI at the moment (Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Pilot, etc.) can do useful things. The point of there being an AI bubble is not that it isn’t useful — it’s that … [continued]
The year of robotaxis moves forward, and we have another robotaxi update today. The autonomous driving firm Wayve and partner Uber were granted Private Hire Vehicle licences from Transport for London (TfL) and can now deploy robotaxis in The Swinging City. That said, they must include human supervisors onboard for … [continued]
The Collective Intelligence Project bills itself as an organization that is steering transformative AI towards better outcomes for everyone. In its latest study, which involved a survey of people in 70 countries, it reports “the decisions shaping AI are made by a small number of people but the consequences reach … [continued]
I’ve been doing a little miniseries on AI this past week. In one of those pieces, I emphasized that one big issue for these companies pouring billions of dollars into data centers and AI expansion is that they don’t have a monopoly on what they are offering — so they … [continued]
I just wrote two articles on AI, and as YouTube has determined this is now what I’m interested in, I keep getting fed interesting videos on the topics I included in my two op-eds, so I keep watching/listening to more on this. Thinking about the topic more, though, and thinking … [continued]
I ended my last article with these lines: “Listen to cousin Ed and the gang talk about this for a few minutes in the video below. I’m going to move on to writing the second part of this two-part series, primarily because I think it’s a really big second point … [continued]
We know about the old-school “Old Boys’ Club,” but that club is largely now the Big Tech Boys’ Club. Tech nerds created products that scaled super fast with relatively minimal capital expenditures and became billionaires. Once you have a billion dollars, you have to be really dumb and bad with … [continued]
Indiana — Governor Braun has released an executive order to extend Indiana coal plants as Big Tech continues to propose new AI data center projects to the state. Braun’s executive order directs the state’s Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources to look for opportunities to reopen retired coal plants or prevent … [continued]
First Authorized Data Center on Public Lands Would Harm Environment, Local Community LAS VEGAS — The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter today filed an administrative appeal challenging federal approval of the Townsite Data Center in Boulder City, Nevada. The 167-megawatt data center, proposed by Skylar Capital Management, was … [continued]
