Why AI is Attracting VC Backing for Software Development
And Why It Might Fall Short of Expectations in Other Areas
Topic
Hyperscale
A collection of 67 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 China Problem: Tariff Mayhem Aggravates Matters
It's Never Easy
Why AI Scenarios Are More Important than Predictions
As Planned, Nvidia’s GTC Offered No Surprises
Nvidia’s Results Were Good, But the Market is Full to Bursting
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
A Case For a Bursting AI Bubble
Let’s be honest. We all have our enthusiasms, and some of them, by their very nature, are partly or wholly irrational.
Nobody can be objectively rational and logically detached all the time. Some of us can’t manage it only some of the time. Humans aren’t wired that
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