Tech Needs to Take a Stronger Stand Against Senseless Mercantilism
Nvidia’s Huang belatedly right about counterproductive export controls
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Venture Capital
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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
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
Answering Zuckerberg’s Call for Masculine Energy
Mark Zuckerberg says we need more “masculine energy” in today’s corporate culture, which presumably includes the tech industry to which he belongs. I’m now retired, but even so, I question whether I’m doing my part for the cause of corporate machismo. I sense that I am at
Amid the Purgatory of HPE’s Uncertain Juniper Acquisition
I haven’t paid a visit to the networking neighborhood for a while, partly because networking, while essential as IT infrastructure, seems a little beside the point when the overall industry and the larger world is teetering on the edge of feral madness.
I ask myself, and no longer in
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
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
Why Tech Employment is Not What It Used to Be
When major new technologies arise, the expectation is that prosperity will follow. What’s more, most observers reasonably assume that the wealth will be shared, not evenly – because that never happens – but at least broadly.
For the most part, these expectations and assumption were realized in past information-technology booms, including
How Information Technology Turbocharged Globalization, and Why It's Being Asked to Retreat
Technology, particularly information technology, played an integral role in facilitating the rise of globalization during the last part of the 20th century and the first decade or so of this century. Globalization, of course, existed before the rise of modern information technology, but there's no question that IT