Archive For

October 2024

Artificial Intelligence – Power problem.

AI is the icing on the cake for nuclear and geothermal. The huge build-out of data centres to train and run AI algorithms is raising...

Artificial Intelligence – Reasoning Debate pt. III

Still no sign of reasoning. Apple has stuck the knife into the idea that large language models (LLMs) can reason with a research paper demonstrating...

Tesla We Robot – Nothingburger!

Great visuals, no content. When the highlight of the show is wondering if it was a Cybercab malfunction that caused Mr Musk to start the...

OpenAI – Unpalatable Confection.

OpenAI wants to have its cake and eat it.    What was going to become a for-profit entity subject to all the forces that hone...

Google – The Long Game

Things might look very different in 3-4 years.  However the legal games play out, Google is not going to be broken up any time soon...

Samsung Q3 24 – A Note 7 Moment.

Problems look temporary and create an opportunity Samsung has reported good results but made a rare apology to investors for its continued inability to catch...

Google – The back foot

Google is on the defensive. E-marketer expects that Google’s market share in US search advertising will drop below 50% in 2025 mainly as others properly...

Microsoft Copilot – Risk adverse

A very cautious update. Microsoft has launched an updated version of Copilot and while Microsoft remains extremely risk-adverse, I think Microsoft has produced a better...

OpenAI – FOMO Party

A big hangover is yet to come. OpenAI has capitalised on investors’ desperation to invest by raising $6.6bn at a post-money valuation of $157bn and...

AI Ecosystem – Voice part II

This time it should work properly. OpenAI is not launching a new model this year, but it is joining everyone else in declaring that voice...