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. 
 

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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.
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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.
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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) ...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.

TL;DR 9June25 ... (1) OpenAI will retain all ChatGPT logs, (2) Reddit Sues Anthropic, and (3) Alibaba Helps China become Number 1 in Open-Source AI

Last update: Monday 6/9/25

  Alibaba: Eddie Wu (CEO), Jack Ma 

(Founder), and Zhou Jingren (CTO)

Welcome to our 9June25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) OpenAI will retain all ChatGPT logs, (2) Reddit Sues Anthropic, and (3) Alibaba Helps China become Number 1 in Open-Source AI. 

 

TL;DR ➡  HERE 

How and why we should build a national library of generative AI use cases and benchmark tests

Last update: Monday 6/9/25

Coding has rapidly become the most successful use case for Large Language Models. Models can now code so well that all Big Tech and many smaller companies are making drastic reductions in the size of their coding staffs. That's bad news ... for software engineers. 

The good news ... for experts in a wide range of other fields ... is that new employment opportunities are just over the horizon for computer savvy personnel who learn how to use generative AI to solve complex problems in their fields. So how can they learn these new skills? Click Here to read more ... 

TL;DR 2June25 ... (1) Nvidia’s Revenue Jumps 69% to $44.1 Billion, and (2) Mountainhead shows how truly deranged the billionaire mindset can be

Last update: Monday 6/2/25

Welcome to our  2June25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Nvidia’s Revenue Jumps 69% to $44.1 Billion, and (2) Mountainhead shows how truly deranged the billionaire mindset can be

 

TL;DR ➡ HERE