Even famed tech companies like Netscape and Friendster that pioneer product categories can lose their dominance to new rivals. Historian Margaret O’Mara examines whether the Chinese upstart can dislodge OpenAI and Anthropic from leadership of a still nascent but already lucrative field.
Meghan Bobrowsky, tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has been following Big Tech’s bets on data centers and on their infinite need to power all types of technologies, not just AI.
Licensing boards are slow to adapt to technology, limiting the public’s access to valuable services, argues Rebecca Haw Allensworth, author of “The Licensing Racket.” To modernize their fields, she says, gatekeepers need a new mindset.
Google says it will comply with President Trump’s order to change the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” on Google Maps. Sterling Quinn, Professor of Geography at Central Washington University, explains how digital map companies have historically navigated complicated name or border changes.
Matt Perault, head of AI policy at Andreessen Horowitz, argues that the current state-by-state legal framework hinders innovation and burdens startups. He also wants regulators to stay far away from AI model development.
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff explains why the executive order to create a space-based defense shield would consume more time and money than envisioned. He sees some value in the plan, but the desired goal, he says, “probably just couldn’t happen.”
Food giant Mondelez is deploying the proliferating technology to speed up the creation of cookies, candies and crackers. Isabelle Bousquette of The Wall Street Journal shares what she learned.
Craig Mundie, coauthor of the recent book “Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit,” says industry and global government leaders should come to a consensus on a treaty-like agreement for the use of AI.
