Why AI is Attracting VC Backing for Software Development
And Why It Might Fall Short of Expectations in Other Areas
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A collection of 32 issues
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
The Complicated Relationship Between Technology and Luddites
Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future
Nvidia’s Results Were Good, But the Market is Full to Bursting
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
Reviewing Beneficiaries of GenAI Datacenter and Infrastructure Spending
AI Infrastructure Spending Gives Tech Investors a Halloween Fright
New Chapter or Epilogue? x86’s Latest Salvo
Robotaxis, Faux Robo PR, Robo Content Moderation, Kong’s New Valuation, Canadian Quantum, and Tech-Industry Lobbying
Taking in the Big Picture at OpenAI
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with all the announcements relating to genAI. Something new – funding, partnerships, releases of new or improved LLMs, executive hires, launches of strategic roadmaps – jumps to the front of the queue each day, to be brusquely displaced by something else, often later the same