Last update: 9:46:pm Thursday 10/23/25
A blog devoted to the discussion of public policy based on data that's available to the general public.
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, writing an exact man" ... Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
TL;DR 21Oct25 ... (1) "Nvidia Targets AI Data Centers And All-Renewable Electricity" ... and Critique
Last update: 9:46:pm Thursday 10/23/25
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
What is the PJM Interconnect? How does it work? And why you should care? ... 1-Basics
Last update: Saturday 3:27am 10/25/25
This note, Part 1 in a three part series, will provide an introduction to the PJM Interconnect that directs the transmission of electric power across thirteen states and the District of Columbia. Part 2 will highlight features of the PJM that provide persistent advantages — lower electricity bills — for households and enterprises in some states, while imposing persistent penalties — higher electricity bills — on households and enterprises in other states. Part 3 will analyze the ironic causes of the persistent penalties, i.e., the negative externalities, that are being reported by the media with increasing frequency and stridency.
Click HERE to view full report
Monday, October 13, 2025
TL;DR 13Oct25 ...(1) OpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMD, (2) OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System, and (3) One company is behind most of Virginia's data center construction boom .
Last update: Monday 10/13/25
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AMD CEO Lisa Su
Welcome to our 13Oct25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) OpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMD, (2) OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System, and (3) One company is behind most of Virginia's data center construction boom.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
TL;DR 7Oct25 ... (1) OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real, (2) California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law, and (3) Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers
Last update: Tuesday 10/7/25
Welcome to our 7Oct25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real, (2) California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law, and (3) Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers
Saturday, October 4, 2025
A closer look at the potential world-wide benefits of Apple Silicon
Substantial Revisions: 7:19pm Friday 10/24/25
Labels:
agents,
AGI,
Apple Silicon,
attention,
data center,
ecosystem,
edge,
emergent,
energy-efficient,
externalities,
iCloud,
inference,
model,
Moore's Law,
Scaling laws,
Siri,
training,
ultra fusion,
unified memory
Monday, September 29, 2025
TL;DR 29Sep25 ... (1) OpenAI Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S., (2) Nvidia Invests Up to $100 Billion in OpenAI, and (3) Nvidia to Invest Up to $100 Billion in OpenAI
Last update: Monday 9/29/25
Monday, September 22, 2025
TL;DR 22Sep25 ... (1) China bans tech companies from buying Nvidia’s AI chips, (2) Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, and (3) Harvard researchers weigh AI’s climate and health impact
Last update: Monday 9/22/25
Welcome to our 22Sep25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) China bans tech companies from buying Nvidia’s AI chips, (2) Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel, and (3) Harvard researchers weigh AI’s climate and health impact
Monday, September 15, 2025
TLDR 15Sep25 ... (1) Apple Introduces New, Slimmer iPhone, (2) Microsoft to Buy AI From Anthropic, and (3) EPA Proposes to End Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Last update: Monday 9/15/25
Welcome to our 15Sep25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Apple Introduces New, Slimmer iPhone, (2) Microsoft to Buy AI From Anthropic, and (3) EPA Proposes to End Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Monday, September 8, 2025
TLDR 8Sep25 ...(1) Google Dodges Worst Penalties in U.S. Antitrust Case, (2) Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement, and (3) NAACP presents guiding principles for data centers
Last update: Monday 10/8/25
Welcome to our 8Sep25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Google Dodges Worst Penalties in U.S. Antitrust Case, (2) Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement, and (3) NAACP presents guiding principles for data centers
Monday, September 1, 2025
TL;DR 1Sep25 ... (1) AI super PACs, (2) Nvidia Predicts Cooler Growth After Sales Record, and (3) Data centers will cause higher electricity prices
Last update: Monday 9/1/25
Monday, August 25, 2025
Sometimes ChatGPT does not connect the dots. Sometimes it does not follow its "plans".
Last update: Tuesday 8/26/25
Everybody knows that chatbotmake mistakes. This misbehavior has given rise to the fundamental guideline that users should always doublecheck everything a chatbot says. The implicit assumption of this guideline is that a chatbot’s incorrect response to a prompt, a/k/a an “error” reflects the chatbot’s incorrect knowledge. This note challenges that assumption.
The editor of this blog can document situations wherein ChatGPT “knew” the correct response to a prompt, but delivered an incorrect response anyway. In other words, ChatGPT failed to connect the dots, failed to give the response that it “knew” that it should have given.
To read more of this blog note click ➡ HERE
TL;DR 25Aug25 ... (1) MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilot projects are failing", (2) The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official, and (3) AI data centers are leading to big electricity bills in NY and NJ
Last update: Monday 8/25/25
Welcome to our 25Aug25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilot projects are failing, (2) The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official, and (3) AI data centers are leading to big electricity bills in NY and NJ
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 ChatGPT 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
Friday, August 15, 2025
Apple moves back to its roots in hardware with “cloud buster” chips
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.
To read more of this blog note click ➡ HERE
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
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
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
To read more of this blog note click ➡ HERE
To read more of this blog note click ➡ HERE
Monday, July 28, 2025
TLDR 28Jul25 ... Welcome to our 28Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Trump Gives A.I. Developers a Free Hand, (2) Alphabet Reports 14% Increase in Second-Quarter, (3) Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War
Last update: Monday 7/28/25
Welcome to our 28Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Trump Gives A.I. Developers a Free Hand, (2) Alphabet Reports 14% Increase in Second-Quarter, (3) Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War .
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Gemini ... The world's first genAI browsing tool
Last update: Saturday 7/26/25
In a recent note on this blog we ranked the three leading chatbots -- ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini -- with regards to 8 basic functions. None of the three was the best at everything; and Gemini only excelled at two things: searching the Internet and following links to unrestricted pages (e.g., pages not behind paywalls). However, its dominance of these two functions enables it to become the world's first genAI browsing tool, a new function that will be discussed in this note ... Click HERE to read more.
Monday, July 21, 2025
TLDR 21Jul25 ... (1) Discover tools that work with Claude, and (2) Anthropic’s Connectors Explained: The AI Revolution Mainstream Media Missed
Last update: Monday 7/21/25
Welcome to our 21Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Discover tools that work with Claude, and (2) Anthropic’s Connectors Explained: The AI Revolution Mainstream Media Missed
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, a tortoise named Claude, and a very fast hare named Gemini
Last update: Wednesday 7/16/25
Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, another tortoise named Claude, and a fast moving hare named Gemini. At the start of the race, everybody knew who was supposed to win. But as quick as a wink, some unexpected things began to happen.
Click HERE to read more.
Note: The cartoon image for this note was composed via ChatGPT on GPT-4o.
Monday, July 14, 2025
TLDR 14Jul25 ... (1) OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic Bankroll A.I. Training for Teachers, (2) Nvidia Becames World’s First $4 Trillion Company, (3) Grok Chatbot's Antisemitic Posts
Last update: Monday 7/14/25
Welcome to our 14Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic Bankroll A.I. Training for Teachers, (2) Nvidia Becomes World’s First $4 Trillion Company, (3) Grok Chatbot's Antisemitic Posts
Friday, July 11, 2025
The Anthropic tortoise and the Google hare
Last update: Friday 7/11/25
Once upon a recent time, the editor of this blog posed two questions to Anthropic’s Claude and to Google’s Gemini. Their responses were remarkably similar.
Q1. Why is Google playing catch up to Anthropic in generative AI, a game that Google invented?
Q2. How come Anthropic, a small startup, has done more significant research in the last three years about how generative AI models really work than Google, whose generative AI efforts are led by Dr. Demis Hassabis, a researcher whose indisputable brilliance earned him a well deserved Nobel prize in chemistry in 2024 for his previous AI innovations.
Click Here to read more
Note: The cartoon image for this note was composed via ChatGPT on GPT-4o.
Monday, July 7, 2025
TLDR 7Jul25 ... (1) Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri, (2) Amazon Is on Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans, (3) Defeat of Ban on State A.I. Laws
Last update: Tuesday 7/8/25
Welcome to our 7Jul25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri, (2) Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses, and (3) Defeat of a 10-Year Ban on State A.I. Laws Is a Blow to Tech Industry
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Powerful AI data centers in your home/office using Apple technology, Part 2 -- How to build a data center with no code, with no code, with no code
Friday 7/4/25
Your interactions with chatbots, agents, and other AI apps reveal how you really think, especially as these apps become more conversational. Knowing how you really think will enable advertisers to design sales pitches that emphasize features that you are most likely to find appealing in their efforts to persuade you to buy their products and services. These revelations can also enable intrusive government agencies and insurance companies to become even more intrusive.
Big Tech companies compile insights about you -- which they derive from your interactions with their cloud-based, large language models -- into encyclopedic profiles. They sell access to these profiles to the highest bidders. An obvious and powerful way to substantially reduce these intrusions is to redirect a substantial portion of your queries away from Big Tech's clouds ... Click HERE to read more
Monday, June 30, 2025
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
Friday, June 27, 2025
Powerful AI data centers in the home/office using Apple technology, Part 1 -- Greatly reduced carbon footprints
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.
Click HERE to read more
Click HERE to read more
Monday, June 23, 2025
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"
Friday, June 20, 2025
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.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Some advice for iPhone and Mac users who store their images and videos on Google Drive
Last update: Thursday 6/19/25
Caveat: This note is written for computer savvy readers who embrace the notion that one should always have up-to-date local backup copies of important files. Readers who have not acquired this wisdom the hard way are unlikely not find any value in this note's recommendations.
Monday, June 16, 2025
TL;DR 16Jun25 ... (1) WWDC 2025, (2) Meta is paying $14 billion for Scale AI (3) Disney and Universal sue Midjourney
Last update: Tuesday 6/16/25
Welcome to our 16Jun25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ (1) WWDC 2025, (2) Meta is paying $14 billion for Scale AI and hiring its CEO, (3) Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Apple's dilemma: Pleasing its iPhone users AND its long term investors
Last update: Tuesday 7/8/25
Apple Park, Cupertino, CA
Apple Park — corporate headquarters for Apple, Inc — is not in the real world. Its unreality emerged in WWDC 2024 and has just been confirmed by WWDC 2025. But as this note will argue, it doesn't matter. Apple merely needs to follow the pragmatic build AND buy strategy that it has followed with great success since 1979. Time is not on Apple's side; but its $3.5 trillion dollar market cap will win the day. It just has to make one more very large, high tech acquisition within the next two years. But which one? ... Click HERE to read more.
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