TL;DR 21Oct25 ... (1) "Nvidia Targets AI Data Centers And All-Renewable Electricity" ... and Critique

Last update: 9:46:pm Thursday 10/23/25

Welcome to our 21Oct25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top story on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) "Nvidia Targets AI Data Centers And All-Renewable Electricity" ... This TL;DR is different. ChatGPT's summary of the article that reported last week's top story is followed by the blog editor's detailed critique of Nvidia's claim that was reported in the article that "we achieved and will maintain 100% renewable electricity for offices and data centers under our operational control." Nvidia's claim that it will maintain 100% renewable electricity is the stuff of grand satires, like Orwell's masterpieces -- Animal Farm and 1984. The primary reason why data centers have such an insatiable need for ever more massive flows of electric power is because Nvidia's chips are so energy-inefficient. By comparison, Apple has recently paid billions of dollars to TSMC to produce chips that have dramatically higher energy-efficiency. How many billions has Nvidia paid anyone to dramatically reduce the energy demands of its gluttonous chips? 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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. 

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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. 

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE 

A closer look at the potential world-wide benefits of Apple Silicon

Substantial Revisions: 7:19pm Friday 10/24/25

This second note in an occasional series explores an emerging solution to a global disaster. It takes a closer look at the potential world-wide benefits of Apple’s forthcoming sales of energy-efficient inference servers to its customers. It also corrects a few misconceptions in the first note 

To read more of this blog note click ➡ HERE

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

Welcome to our 29Sep TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) OpenAI Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S., (2) Nvidia Invests Up to $100 Billion in OpenAI, and (3) Alibaba Integrates Nvidia Robotics Software in Its AI Platform"

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE 

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

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE 

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

Welcome to our 1Sep25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) AI super PACs, (2) Nvidia Predicts Cooler Growth After Sales Record, and (3) Data centers will cause higher electricity prices

 

TL;DR ➡  HERE

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

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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

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 11Aug25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT 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

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 5Aug25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT 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

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

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 .

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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.

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

Dario Amodei, CEO Anthropic

TL;DR ➡ HERE 

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.

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

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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.

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

TL;DR ➡ HERE

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

 

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

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

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) ...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.  

Some advice for iPhone and Mac users who store their images and videos on Google Drive

Last update: Thursday 6/19/25

This note offers some advice for iPhone and Mac users who store their images and videos on Google Drive via the app they downloaded from the App Store ➡ There's a better way to install Google Drive.

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.

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

TL;DR ➡  HERE

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.