China snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? Or a long game for China to seize control of the USA’s most valuable intellectual property?
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Voters Pull the Plug on Big Tech’s AI Data Center Boom
Voters have sent Big Tech a clear message: Address the costs imposed on local communities before expecting a welcome mat for the next server farm.
Free Palestine Activists Occupy a Dutch Data Center Protest Against AI
Perhaps an activist scheduling conflict?
The Democrat Midterm Victory has Created Data Center Opportunities for Other Countries
The USA was on track to securing its position as the AI center of the world. Then AI hating Democrats won the midterms.
Data Centers Soar Despite Opposition
Locations that ban centers will miss out on the construction jobs, tax revenue, and economic growth that centers can provide. All said, the data center build-out does not show signs…
Much of the AI-will-kill-us-all scare is driven by a charity movement gone crazy
Funding a push for global governance of AI development is not altruism; it is crazy.
The AI Boom Needs Superconducting Wire, Not Another Record
The next superconductor breakthrough will not be a number in a table. It will be a length of tape that holds its current after a thousand bends and a decade…
What is the Point of Studying, if AI will Take All the Jobs?
What to tell demoralised kids who think AI has eaten their future.
Google Knew? Google Management Finally Admits Renewables Don’t Work for Powering Data Centers
They knew a decade ago – “… Battery technology is not yet at the stage where it can fully absorb that firming need and requirement. …”
We must embrace AI and data centers, not pause them
We increasingly need AI and data centers to combat our enemies, foreign and domestic. National, local, corporate, hospital, banking and homeowner defense systems need good-guy AI to combat bad-guy AI.
RIP Margaret Hamilton: The Software Engineer who Saved the First Moon Landing by Implementing Error Handling
“… Everybody said that was never going to happen …”
Why China Cares About Data Centers in Arkansas
is this just a coincidence or does China have an agenda to thwart data center construction that puts our national security at risk?” In fact, residents of all states where…
America’s Freedom to Slow AI Is Priced in Magnets
Having a lead and keeping the policies that protect it are different problems, and they run on different clocks. The first clock measures how fast China can close the capability…
OpenAI Agent Reportedly Bypassed Safeguards and Hacked Australian Health Website
AI agent was tasked to collect mundane data collection and autonomously used hacking techniques to get it.
The Absurdity of calls to “Pace” Artificial Intelligence
I’m currently working on three AI projects. All of the projects could produce novel AI capabilities. Which project should I “pace”?
Infinite Friction: Why the Nuclear Analogy Is Wrong for AI
In the age of powerful AI, a geopolitical plateau of strategic stability will not come in a static balance of power, negotiated in the manner of bygone nuclear doctrines.
Win the AI Race. Then Face What Comes Next.
In the long term, we should not let the fear of human obsolescence deter our pursuit of technological supremacy. By winning the AI race at full throttle, we secure our…
The Anti-Nuclear Playbook Comes for Data Centers
Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the U.S. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a…
Trump Completely Rejects AI “Experts” Push to ‘Pace the Frontier’
“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.”
UN Tries to Insert itself into Calls for AI Regulation
I’m now even more convinced of my AI drawbridge theory – incumbents using red tape to raise the drawbridge and block entry for new competitors.