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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...

CES 2025 – Dark Horses of Vegas

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...

CES 2025 Day 3 – Into the Weeds

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...

China Technology – Walk not Talk

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,...

The Metaverse – Late Entrant

Google and Samsung are getting closer. Google has finally launched its play for The Metaverse with the launch of Android XR where it has sensibly decided to leave the hardware...

Google Gemini – Rear Guard Action

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...

Autonomous Driving – End of Cruise

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...

Open AI – Christmas Deception

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...

Apple vs. Qualcomm – Black Magic pt. III

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...

Intel – Nightmare on Mission College Blvd

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...