In the DeepSeek AI saga, some technologists but not Republicans are relearning the lessons of the previous Chinese tech booms. China’s government not only spends much money on R&D, but the education of its people at world-class universities that is like nothing like what we currently have in the US, and, unlike here in the …
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Bigger and More Expensive is Not Necessarily Better -DeepSeek Takes Over the “Frontier”
The US now lives in the era of short-term monetization research led by billionaires, instead of the long-term innovation paradigm led by our non-profit academic research institutions. VC-backed AI startups reflect this shift as the US loses its lead in almost all aspects of science and engineering to China. Typical in empires that have reached …
The Innovation Center of the World, California, Keeps Innovating
A random selection of new technology companies in California that are positive changemakers. The tech scene in California is booming, and so is California’s increasing population in 2024, while California became the 4th largest economy on the planet in 2025, surpassing Japan. If you believe the American mythology that technologies and start-ups are created by …
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A Tech Festival Where They Boo Tech – SXSW in Texas
South by Southwest 2024, a combined tech conference and entertainment industry festival held in Austin, Texas, a regressive city inhabited by conservatives like Greg Abbott, Elon Musk, and Alex Jones, ran a minute-long promotional video featuring brief clips from panels earlier in the conference. In each clip, the speakers were either explicitly pro-AI or emphasizing the …
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AI Models in Healthcare Are Not Generalizable When Predicting Disease
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has made claims that large datasets can be mined to predict and identify diseases and the best course of care for future patients. Unfortunately, we do not know how these models would perform in terms of predicting disease and treatment on new patients because they are rarely tested prospectively on …
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IBM Research in San Jose, California Develops New Neural Computer Architecture – NorthPole
Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha, Ph.D., graduate of UCSD Engineering, and his team, developed a computer chip with a neural inspired architecture, called NorthPole, where memory and computation are integrated, that achieves substantially higher performance, energy efficiency, and area efficiency compared with other architectures. This computer obviates the need to access external memory, thus greatly increasing …
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