Last week, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, lost approximately $500 billion in market value in a single day. Investors were rattled by slowing advertising growth and the company’s enormous spending on
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Imagine you’re riding in a self-driving car when its brakes fail. Ahead, five pedestrians are crossing the street. The car can continue straight, killing all five, or swerve into a
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In Part I of this series, I looked at the surprisingly difficult problem of cooling a data center in space. In Part II, I explored the damage cosmic radiation can
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Mark Cuban was recently asked a question about artificial intelligence that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Not whether AI works. Not whether it will transform business. Not whether it will
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In Part I, I wrote about one of the counterintuitive problems with putting data centers in space: cooling them. Space may be cold, but a vacuum doesn’t give you air
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Putting data centers in space sounds like one of those ideas that makes perfect sense—as long as you don’t think about it for too long. AI requires staggering amounts of
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Europe has delivered another major ruling against a large American technology company. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be particularly surprising. Over the last decade, European regulators have repeatedly targeted U.S. tech firms
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There are bold ideas. There are bad ideas. And then there are ideas so spectacularly detached from reality that they feel like satire written by someone who’s spent too long
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Apple has made a calculated move to enhance Siri with generative AI by integrating Google Gemini. On paper, this sounds like a practical shortcut: Google’s model ranks highly in benchmarks,
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The rise of large language models has reignited a very old confusion: the idea that we are built just like the tools we use. LLMs are built using neural nets
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