Monday, August 18, 2025

TL;DR ... 18Aug 25 ... (1) Question: Does Nvidia sell chips to China: Yes or No? ... Trump says "Yes", China says "No" ... and (2) Local negative consequence of the data center boom

Last update: Tuesday 8/19/25
Welcome to our 18Aug25
 TL;DR summaries by Chat
GPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Question: Does Nvidia sell chips to China: Yes or No? ... 
Trump says "Yes", China says "No" ... and (2) Local negative consequence of the data center boom: Higher electricity bills for everyone and lower air quality
TL;DR  HERE

Friday, August 15, 2025

Apple moves back to its roots in hardware ... again

Extensive revision: 8/17/25

This is the first of a series of occasional publications that will track Apple’s development of genAI inference data centers using Apple Silicon, centers at the edges of the Internet that will support billions of devices. Given Apple's policy of minimal publicity during development, there probably won't be more than four more reports before the end of 2026.


Note: 
During “training”, a model learns from a large dataset; during “inference”, a trained model responds to queries from users.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

TL;DR 8/11/25 ... (1) OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here, (2) OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models, and (3) Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1

Last update: Tuesday 8/12/25

Welcome to our 11Aug
25 TL;DR summaries by Chat
GPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here, (2) OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models, and (3) 
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1
 

TL;DR  HERE

Monday, August 4, 2025

TL;DR 5Aug25 ... Big Tech's Quarterly Reports , and (2) Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude

Last update: Tuesday 8/4/25



Welcome to our 5Aug
25 TL;DR summaries by Chat
GPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Big Tech's Quarterly Reports (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Alphabet/Google),  and (2) 
Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude
 

TL;DR  HERE

Friday, August 1, 2025

The Great AI Exodus: How Three Tech Giants Lost the Visionaries Who Built the Future

Last update: Friday 8/1/25
An exclusive article in The Information last week reported that many members of Apple's large language model unit were leaving because they perceived that Apple's leadership did not share their vision of the transcendent importance of generative AI. Given that The Information's report was behind a very high paywall, most of the readers of this blog probably could not read it. So the editor tasked ChatGPT to provide an extensive TLDR summary  

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