Tesla and the Fickle Magic of Sentiment One challenge associated with expounding on events is having to choose from a multiplicity of subject matter. On any given day — today, for instance — I could take this vehicle and drive it in any of several directions. But since I’ve invoked a driving metaphor, let’s go with Tesla’
And Now for A Very Different Take on the DeepSeek Cause Célèbre A media storm raged in the wake of news that China’s DeepSeek open-source AI models were capable of equaling or surpassing the performance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is decidedly not open source. In the past few days, arguably too much has been written and said about the emergence
Tech Reaches the Geopolitical Summit: The Rise of Datacenter Diplomacy There’s an article in – of all places – Foreign Policy that I recommend you read. I recommend that you read the article not because I wholeheartedly agree completely with everything it says – the piece raises perhaps as many questions as it answers – but because I think it provides valuable insight
Robotaxis, Faux Robo PR, Robo Content Moderation, Kong’s New Valuation, Canadian Quantum, and Tech-Industry Lobbying
Why Intel’s Future is Unlikely to Include an Acquisition by Qualcomm Large parts of the technology industry would like to think of themselves as apolitical. Many denizens of the technology world might have no use for politics, but politics, especially of the geopolitical variety, unquestionably has use for many of them. As geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China intensify,