Last update: Monday 9/29/25
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)
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
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
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