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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...

USA vs. China – Carrot and Stick

I expect the new rule to stand. The USA has released new export rules that make good on the intentions released a few months ago that make life harder for...

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...

CES 2025 Day 2 – Autonomous head fake

Busy floors, apocryphal autonomous driving Floor report – Orderly business The floor was even busier on Day 2 than it was on Day 1 but the chaos that usually accompanies...

CES 2025 Day 1 – Peaceful progress

Generative AI is not yet ready for the consumer Prototype to product The halls are busy and the queues are long but what is different in 2025 is the change...

CES 2025 Day 0 – AI everyone?

AI takes over. CES 2025 Outlook – The AI have-nots Automotive will play second fiddle this year as CES 2025 is going to be dominated by AI whether one likes...

Qualcomm vs. Arm – Short but Sharp pt. II

RFM returns for one more update before CES 2025 Qualcomm wins, but not entirely. The jury has delivered Qualcomm a significant win in its battle with Arm and while Arm...

Qualcomm vs. Arm – Short but Sharp

I still think the dispute will settle. The dispute has gone to trial with both sides scoring points, but the outcome remains pretty uncertain where the outcome of this trial...

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,...