Don't Blame Chinese 'Psyops' for Data Center Angst
There are 7,700 McDonald’s stores in China, with plans for 10,000 by 2028. McDonald’s is one of many potent symbols of Americana that’s proliferating in China. Which is the underlying point of a…
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Clear filtersTo Ease His AI Worries, Bill Gates Should Meet Karl Ravech
“I still have difficulty walking in the door and believing I work here.” That's Karl Ravech, in a 1993 interview with the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Moderna Is Now a Cancer Company, and It's Not the Only One Pivoting
It won’t stop with melanoma. Yes, you read that right. That’s the beauty of commercial leaps. They beget copious investment in search of the advances given life by the original advance.
The Frontier for Cancer Cures Continues to Expand
Higher drug prices are bullish. Yes, you read that right. What's pricey signals a development achievement that will soon be enjoyed by all income classes at much lower price points.
The Profit Motive Is Vivifying Karl Marx's Beautiful Vision
The profit motive produces its own “gravediggers.” That’s what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argued in The Communist Manifesto.
Banning Open-Weight AI Models Could Cost America the AI Race
America will win the race to superintelligence unless we defeat ourselves. Unfortunately, there is a scenario where that happens — and as a policy matter, it’s already under…
Heavy Energy Consumption Is the Greatest Feature of Data Centers
In speeches, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells rapt audiences that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “work.” Yes, precisely. Jensen’s pithy explanation of what AI truly is speaks to the towering potential…
The Sheer Wonder and Meaning Found In a Tesla Ride
Last Saturday, I strolled over to the St. Stephen's Farmers Market. I never buy anything. I eat all my meals out, but it's usually a good venue to walk around and spot nice-looking, nubile…
How AI Will Create Youthful Passion for Capitalism
AI will do more to elevate capitalism in the eyes of the young than any other advance. See Elon Musk to understand why. It turns out his teachers in South Africa thought he was touched. What to take…
Mark Zuckerberg Articulates the Brilliant AI Future Ahead
Everyone sucks at something. In a baseball sense, that’s why “five tool” players are paid so well. They can not only hit for average, but they can also hit for power, run the bases with great speed,…
Data Centers Aren’t Crowding Out Investment, They’re Expanding It
Data centers, and the $1 trillion+ that is being invested in their creation, are “causing” overall weakness in the U.S. economy. That’s according to former Biden White House economic official,…
Biden Fueled China’s Chip Boom, but Trump Can Restore America’s Lead
While Americans were firing up grills and welcoming the start of summer over Memorial Day weekend, a quiet bombshell dropped half a world away that has reshaped the global artificial intelligence…
It’s Not Fair To Peggy Noonan’s People To Slow AI’s Arrival
Peggy Noonan is asking if we can “Survive” the AI revolution? Her skepticism about Silicon Valley has her predicting that a tendency to isolate will grow with AI, that “It will pull people away from…
Meta’s “AI Layoffs” Are a Bullish Sign of More Meta Hiring
“Productive labor may render a nation poorer, if the wealth it produces – that is, the increase it makes in the stock of useful or agreeable things – be of a kind not immediately wanted.” – John…
Don’t let government pick winners and losers on AI
President Donald Trump renewed his commitment to seeing America win the AI race at his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Trump administration has rejected the Biden approach of…
Is the future of AI in the hands of politicians?
Some overestimate the government’s ability to develop novel solutions to challenging problems. NASA’s spacefaring efforts were eventually surpassed by SpaceX, which has maintained a 100% safety…
The Theatrical Release of “Narnia” Restates the Netflix Case
“The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk.” That was the headline for an opinion piece written by Jane Fonda last December. Fonda feared Neflix’s acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery…
As Anthropic’s Valuation Reaches $1T, Why Is SBF Incarcerated?
FTT coins, the same coins that entitled owners to a third of FTX’s annual profits, initially fetched roughly .5 cents per. Wrapped in the latter, along with the recent private valuation of Anthropic…
The Brilliant Existence of Oil and AI Is All That Matters
No individual or nation need ever worry about the supply of oil or Artificial Intelligence (AI). The latter holds true whether both are sourced across the street or on the other side of the world. …
Why App Store Age Verification Is a Strategic Mistake for the GOP
The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee recently advanced legislation enforcing new age verification requirements that would impact app store users of all ages. In a strange twist on…
Netflix Won By ‘Losing’ the Battle for Warner Brothers Discovery
Netflix won by “losing” the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD). The victory can be found in contemplating what Netflix was going to get in return for its purchase of WBD. It wasn’t an…
Taiwan and TSMC Make the World Safer by the Day
A recent above the fold, front-page headline at the New York Times asserted that “Reliance on Taiwan Chips Endangers U.S. Economy.” The article’s subhead added that “Big Tech Has Done Little to Heed…
Proof of Work Is What’s In Your Wallet, Not a BTC Blockchain
Money buys nothing. It’s always production for production. Continue reading on Forbes.
Artificial Intelligence Will Be the Greatest Job Creator Ever
As Nvidia’s Jensen Huang routinely points out, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is work. That’s why it will be the most powerful, growth boosting, job creator the world has ever known. It can’t be said…