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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