Another edition of the traditional post-CES report highlights interesting things and trends that the tech media ignored or missed. Donut – Zero or Hero? The top spot goes to Donut...
China increases its presence a bit and BMW pushes back on Apple. China – Economic Necessity Once again at CES, China is everywhere and nowhere at the same time as...
The time for talk is over. The outlook for 2025 is for another very bleak year where China falls even further behind the West, meaning that to turn things around,...
Project Astra is all about self-preservation. Google’s latest models show incremental improvements in a sign that the scaling effect is slowing down but Google is making an early move towards...
Tesla is the main beneficiary of Cruise’s demise. GM’s withdrawal from the robotaxi market is a sign that the economics of this industry are not going to be what Elon...
Sora is no gift and is obscuring other issues. Open AI’s 12 days of Christmas headlines with Sora but all the fuss and buzz is creating a smoke screen for...
This fight is becoming less important. Apple is having another go at removing Qualcomm entirely from its products, but I suspect that this will continue to be much harder than...
The rot runs deep. The “ouster” of Pat Gelsinger means that Intel will almost certainly be split up and could be absorbed into other companies meaning that the once all-powerful...
Artificial Intelligence – Agent Unreliable
An unreliable agent is worse than useless. Agentic AI is all the rage but a recent product launch from OpenAI demonstrates that LLMs lack some of the essential qualities to...