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Nvidia Q3 2022 – Crypto crunch

Exiting miners hammer Nvidia’s numbers Nvidia issued a warning on its Q3 2022 performance as the crypto crash and subsequent winter have hammered demand for graphics cards that are used...

Artificial Intelligence – Generic origami pt. III

AlphaFold almost fulfils its promise. DeepMind has expanded a crucial biological database by 200x confirming that an entire branch of scientific enquiry is now virtually obsolete. AlphaFold is DeepMind’s algorithm...

Autonomous Driving – Pie in the sky pt. III

The pie has crashed back to earth. Another autonomous driving upstart is cutting back staff in order to preserve dwindling cash as revenues remain years away and current conditions will...

Apple & The Metaverse – Not yet

2023 is too early. Despite feverish speculation, Apple failed to launch a Metaverse device at WWDC 2022 and now speculation has shifted to early 2023 which I continue to think...

Autonomous Autos 2021 – Creaking at the seams

AutoX takes a questionable lead. Waymo, Baidu (Apollo) and Zoox have fallen way down in the ratings leading me to question whether the analysis of the California DMV data as...

Artificial Intelligence – Infinite monkeys

I don’t think LaMDA is anywhere close to being sentient. Another disagreement between Google and one of its researchers has sparked a big debate on whether AI has become sentient,...

Google I/O 2022 – Babel fish

Google puts a placeholder on the Metaverse with a Babel fish. The all-important Google I/O keynote was a fairly humdrum affair with the exception of the soft launch of its...

Palantir Q1 22 – Knock knock!

Getting close to interesting territory. Palantir joins the list of companies that report a slight miss that causes a big sell-off in the shares that has another high-flying technology stock...

Tesla Q1 2022 – Unbelievable robotics.

Hubris mars credibility. Tesla reported great results but then marred its improving credibility by making unrealistic predictions about robotaxis that it has no real hope of fulfilling. Q1 2022 revenues...

Tesla – Unfounded confidence

Tesla is set up to lose the autonomous race. Tesla’s removal of radar from its models shipping to Europe and the Middle East is the right choice based on its...