Why AI is Attracting VC Backing for Software Development And Why It Might Fall Short of Expectations in Other Areas
Summarizing Last Week’s News This Week Alibaba Cloud’s Global Push, European Clouds, Anthropic’s Protective Measures, and Sergey Brin’s Threats of Violence Against AI Bots
Annihilation or Utopia? AI Likely to Land Somewhere Between the Two Extremes A couple recent articles got my attention, and I thought I’d offer thoughts with which you might enthusiastically agree or vehemently disagree. Either reaction is acceptable. The only unacceptable reaction would be apathy and indifference. We’re here to think critically, not to sleepwalk. The topic of AI is
Forget the Asteroid in 2032 — Worry About the Here and Now I am not among the people concerned about an asteroid, charmingly named 2024 YR4, that is reportedly hurtling through space on a collision course for Earth. Astronomers and physicists estimate that the space rock, which measures from 130 to 300 feet (a wide variance), has about a 1.5% probability
Juniper CEO Rami Rahim is Right When He Says the DoJ is Wrong Did Juniper CEO Rami Rahim reach out to SDxCentral for an interview, or was the approach from the latter to the former? The answer to that question doesn’t negate anything that Rahim said in an article published by SDxCentral, but it would be interesting to know the answer. HPE
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
Quantum Mania: Amid the Present Puffery, A Seemingly Bright Future You could say that it’s the best of times, the worst of times, and practically the non-existent times for quantum computing. The sentence I’ve just typed is paradoxical, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. The information-technology industry seems to be forming a consensus that quantum computing