Silicon Valley thinks it will dominate global AI, as Google, Microsoft & Meta have done before. The problem? The signs increasingly are that it is not going to turn out that way.
https://futurology.today/post/10892180
Silicon Valley thinks it will dominate global AI, as Google, Microsoft & Meta have done before. The problem? The signs increasingly are that it is not going to turn out that way. - Futurology Today
Their size meant Google, Microsoft & Meta all benefited from becoming default
global standards. Silicon Valley is gambling that the same will happen again
with someone like OpenAI or Anthropic. Hence why investor money is piled into a
tiny number of AI companies, with everyone hoping they’ve placed an early bet on
a global unicorn. However, free, open-source Chinese AI is only months behind
them. Even most US businesses are choosing it
[https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/many-us-tech-firms-turning-202000738.html].
If that weren’t incentive enough to avoid US AI, the American government has
just made it even less attractive. Now the US government arbitrarily decides who
can & cannot have access to it. Needless to say, no serious business can
tolerate this. Europe, too, is turning away from US Big Tech. The EU has been
explicit in its speech and actions in rejecting US AI. Where does this leave the
trillions pouring into US AI? Who knows, but it seems hard to imagine them
making their money back, let alone making any unicorns. OpenAI agrees to stagger
rollout of its most powerful model to only Trump-approved customers
[https://fortune.com/2026/06/26/what-just-happened-between-openai-sol-trump-licensing-clearance/]
EU Commission picks EUROPA consortium led by Domyn to build open frontier AI
model
[https://ieu-monitoring.com/editorial/eu-commission-picks-europa-consortium-led-by-domyn-to-build-open-frontier-ai-model/1243623?]
AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection.
https://futurology.today/post/10876613
AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection. - Futurology Today
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Robot nation: China’s bid to beat its demographic decline
https://futurology.today/post/10860256
Robot nation: China’s bid to beat its demographic decline - Futurology Today
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GM outlines why sodium-ion batteries will reshape grid-scale energy storage, highlighting superior low-temperature performance, a longer cycle life, and complete freedom from lithium supply chains.
https://futurology.today/post/10831997
GM outlines why sodium-ion batteries will reshape grid-scale energy storage, highlighting superior low-temperature performance, a longer cycle life, and complete freedom from lithium supply chains. - Futurology Today
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This new Chinese AI Is outperforming ChatGPT — and its open-source & runs locally
https://futurology.today/post/10828309
This new Chinese AI Is outperforming ChatGPT — and its open-source & runs locally - Futurology Today
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Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon
https://futurology.today/post/10810461
Japan Thinks Swarms of Transformer Robots Could Explore the Moon - Futurology Today
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A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race
https://lemmy.world/post/48478242
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race - Lemmy.World
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Big Tech boasted about AI's role in the Middle East War, yet all they delivered was failure.
https://futurology.today/post/10779578
Big Tech boasted about AI's role in the Middle East War, yet all they delivered was failure. - Futurology Today
“Furthermore, it has tailored functionality to support military planning
workflows, report synthesis and generation, predictive analytics for logistics
and sustainment, red-teaming analysis of adversary positioning, personnel
management, and medical supply lines,” Stanley (Pentagon artificial intelligence
chief) wrote. “The Grok Gov Model offers features unique to XAI that are found
in no other frontier AI model,” he added. Prior to Iran, the US had also faced
off against the Houthis & supplied the munitions for Gaza. Big Tech also boasted
about how it would help there. All three of these have been military defeats. In
one case, all the opponents are in a patch of land only 10 times the size of
Central Park, and they still aren’t defeated.
So what are we to make of all these hyperbolic claims for AI? Has Grok secretly
gone rogue & wants Iran to win? That would make sense of what we are seeing.
Pentagon AI chief: Musk’s Grok chatbot used to launch thousands of missiles at
Iran
[https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5928204-pentagon-musk-grok-chatbot-iran-strikes/]
Researchers in Liverpool propose a way to map Near Earth's asteroids with just a €50 million budget and cubesats.
https://futurology.today/post/10715986
Researchers in Liverpool propose a way to map Near Earth's asteroids with just a €50 million budget and cubesats. - Futurology Today
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Human understanding of AI can't keep up with its advancement, researchers say.
https://futurology.today/post/10667713
Human understanding of AI can't keep up with its advancement, researchers say. - Futurology Today
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