The Brave New World of Employment Under AI……What About Countervailing Forces?
Why AI still has some growth pains coming.
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How the ‘Visionaries’ of Silicon Valley Mean Profits Are Prioritised over True Technological Progress
True scientific innovation needs institutions and people guided by principles that go beyond financial incentives. And fortunately, there are places which support them, unlike Silicon Valley.
Read more...How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
Chemists are manipulating carbon dioxide to make plastics for clothing, mattresses, shoes, and more.
Read more...China Bans Exports of Rare Earth Tech as Critical Minerals Race Heats Up
China is raising the stakes in the US sanctions war by tightening rare earth screws.
Read more...Self-Driving Cars Hit the Wall
Self-driving cars have suddenly gone from being depicted as inevitable to likely never happening at scale. Why?
Read more...Google Loses on Every Count in Play Store Antitrust Suit by Epic Games
Google has suffered a major blow to its Play apps store model if this new ruling survives appeal. A Federal jury returned what the Washington Post deemed to be a verdict against Google on all counts, after mere hours of deliberation. A link to the verdict form 1. Readers may recall, at a 50,000 foot […]
Read more...Wall Street Journal: “Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition”
The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...The Destructively High Energy Cost of AI
More data on the energy cost of AI, which is projected soon to exceed that of several small countries.
Read more...New Technologies to Get Around Old Laws: Algorithms Being Used to Evade Antitrust Rules, Fix Prices and Worse
Is organizing a price-fixing cartel still illegal if an algorithm tells you to do it?
Read more...Paging OpenAI Board: ChatGPT on “Handling CEO Termination Delicately” versus Larry Summers, Who Is Still Not Fit to Run a Dog Pound, on New Board
The apparently soon-to-be-ex OpenAI board would have been well served to talk to lawyers about its row qith Sam Altman…or even ChatGPT.
Read more...Geopolitical Rivals Are Key Suppliers of West’s Green Energy Materials
Opposie! The West increasingly needs critical materials from countries against which we have escalated, particularly for green energy.
Read more...Jim Chanos: “The Crypto Ecosystem Is Well-Suited for the Dark Side of Finance.”
The famed short-seller talks Sam Bankman-Fried, why Wall Street is still so keen on crypto, and how technology is making us dumber
Read more...The ‘Pay-or-Consent’ Challenge for Platform Regulators
Users expect online services to be free but some digital firms are now offering pay-or-consent options, affecting competition dynamics.
Read more...A Ramble Through The Social Media World, Looking for Twitter’s Replacement
Going all the way around the barn to end up where I started.
Read more...“Effective Altruism” Network Infiltrates Congress, Federal Agencies to Create Silicon Valley Favoring AI Policies
How Silicon Valley has taken over the AI agenda in the Beltway, for fun and above all, profit.
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