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A collection of 51 issues
Market Frenzy Pressures AI Engineers to Burnout and Despair
You may have heard that we’re in the midst of an AI market frenzy. You might choose to call it an AI gold rush, or, if you’re less favorably disposed, an AI mania. Whatever you choose to call what’s happening today, I think we can all agree
AI’s Runaway Capex Raises Questions, Signifies Big Changes Ahead
Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, and Meta were among the companies posting quarterly financial results this week. (Amazon will report next week.) The market responded enthusiastically to results from Google and Microsoft, but Meta’s results aroused ambivalence followed by deep concern.
Beyond the respective revenues and earnings of the technology behemoths
The Datacenter Energy Crunch: More Opportunity Than Threat
Lately, I’ve spent some of my now-copious free time pondering the future of datacenters, suddenly pressured by AI to quicken their evolutionary pace. As you may have heard, AI is notorious for its voracious appetite for energy and its unquenchable thirst for water.
Today’s post is relatively brief,
Big Tech Sheds Office Space, Intensifying a Trend with Other Tech Consequences
When reading articles and doing research, the goal is obviously to clearly understand the information you receive. If you’re serious about learning and gaining knowledge, however, you also consider what the information implies but not does state expressly. You take in the information in front of you, of course,
Energy: Tech Constraint or Accelerant?
The technology industry is insular and self-absorbed. Its denizens and principal players often see themselves as singularly important, the ever-shining sun around which all other businesses and industries revolve.
One could argue that there’s some justification for the tech industry’s bumptiousness. The Magnificent Seven have dominated stock-market gains
When Momentum Fades and Exhaustion Looms
Momentum always flags and falters eventually. It’s only a question of when it will happen.
What Data-Egress Fees Have in Common with Hotel California
Taking a Trip with Hallucinatory AI
I admit that I’m still struggling to get the hang of retirement. I’m officially retired – in that I no longer collect salaried remuneration from an employer for professional services rendered – but I’m not exactly living a superannuated life of leisure. No beach chairs, sun parasols, golf clubs,