TL;DR 30Jun25 ... (1) Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race, and (2) OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get

Last update: Monday 6/30/25

Welcome to our 30Jun25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race, and (2) OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

Reducing your carbon footprint with a personal AI data center in your home based on Apple technology

Last update: Saturday 6/28/25

Having a personal generative AI data center in your home or office confers two obvious benefits ➡ (1) substantial reduction of your carbon footprint, and (2) greater privacy. This note estimates the reduction in the size of your carbon footprint that can be achieved by using Apple technology to converse with powerful, open source, small language models in your local center vs. large language models in the cloud. A second note will describe how the editor of this blog built his own AI datacenter using Apple technology ... with no code.
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TLDR-23Jun25 ... 1) Amazon expects to reduce corporate jobs due to AI, (2) Microsoft Plans to Cut Thousands More Employees, and (3) Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

Last update: Monday 6/23/25

Welcome to our 23Jun25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Amazon expects to reduce corporate jobs due to AI, (2) Microsoft Plans to Cut Thousands More Employees, and (3) Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats"

TL;DR ➡ HERE

GenAI Diary (page) ... Seven genAI guidelines for using ChatGPT on IPhones and Macs

Last update: Tuesday 6/24/25

Back in the day (circa 2024), people were still talking about "prompt engineering" wherein users spent considerable time and thought carefully editing their prompts to ensure maximum utility from the chatbot's response. But in late 2024, after ChatGPT acquired conversational skills and memory of previous encounters, other guidelines have become more imperative. This note suggests seven guidelines that the editor of this blog has found to be useful in the two to three hours he spends each day in spontaneous conversations with the chatbot.

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GenAI Diary (page) ...The absence of critical thinking in the research design of a recent MIT Media Lab study of student misuse of ChatGPT

Last update: Sunday 6/22/25

This note discusses the absence of critical thinking in the research design of a recent MIT Media Lab study of student misuse of ChatGPT.  

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