From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war.
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My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he, who’d been a socialist in his impoverished […]
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Ever since Greenspan took over the Fed and the 87 crash when they figured out their playbook, the US has only had unavoidable stock market crashes. The Fed is always there to juice markets higher and to jump in at the least sign of a normal (pre-Greenspan) market correction. But sometimes the irrational stupidity overwhelms […]
AI’s a weird industry. So far almost no one is making any money, certainly not the major Western AI companies: Anthropic and OpenAI. Every query costs more than the revenue it generates. The primary beneficiary has been NVidia: they’re making money hand over fist, and suppliers of data centers and power have big customers in […]
Mohammed Gharbawi Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have fuelled a lively debate on the feasibility and proximity of artificial general intelligence (AGI). While some experts dismiss the concept of AGI as highly speculative, viewing it primarily through the lens of science fiction (Hanna and Bender (2025)), others assert that its development is not merely … Continue reading The gathering swarm: emergent AGI and the rise of distributed intelligence
On Easter Sunday of this year, Open AI’s Large Language Model apparently developed a kind...
The virtual world of the internet depends on massive data centres in the real world. In 2024 Australia was one of the top five data centre hubs in the world.
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27th of May 2025 I. Some of you may know the famous scene at the start of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, when one of our fur-covered ancestors picks up a bone from a skeleton lying on the ground and realises that it can be used to fight off enemies. Having killed the leader of … Continue reading Robots as Weapons of War