3/ 2025 trends converging: •Nuclear energy—the only way to meet AI’s hunger for power. •Infrastructure reinvention—data centers, chips, grids: nation-building 2.0. •Private-sector leadership—the real moonshots aren’t coming from governments. (Although, Trump’s new
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Texas emerges as global AI infrastructure powerhouse
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2/ Forget the old metaphors. This isn’t “the new oil” or “the new factories.” This is a new era. Building the infrastructure to power intelligence—globally. And it starts with Texas as ground zero.
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Stargate: $500B AI Infrastructure Investment Announced by Trump
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Thoughts on #STARGATE, the $500bn AI infrastructure investment to be announced by @realDonaldTrump
. 1/ OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle. $100B now, $500B over 4 years. Stargate is here—starting in Texas. This isn’t just AI—it’s industrial intelligence at scale. The U.S. just -
Zoom Integrates Perplexity Sonar API for Enhanced AI Search
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Companies that have integrated Sonar have seen big wins — such as Zoom, which uses Perplexity’s API to strengthen native search in their AI Companion 2.0 product.
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AI Industrial Revolution Shifts Focus to Political Power
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At Davos this year … it was obvious that the most important people in the next phase of the AI revolution (building industrial intelligence) were not in Switzerland … they were in D.C. at the inauguration of @realDonaldTrump ! pic.twitter.com/g4cO6mr3Cd
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 21 janvier 2025At Davos this year … it was obvious that the most important people in the next phase of the AI revolution (building industrial intelligence) were not in Switzerland … they were in D.C. at the inauguration of @realDonaldTrump !
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Industrial Intelligence: US Infrastructure Scale-up and Global AI Competition
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The next phase of AI is the build-out of ‘Industrial Intelligence.’ This is about building the infrastructure and acquiring the resources needed to scale Intelligence. The competition is fierce and the US is getting even farther ahead thanks to @realDonaldTrump
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Apple’s AI Text Message Summarization Feature Called Anti-Feature
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It is an anti-feature. Somehow it got turned on for my text messages on iOS. Not only did it summarize in wrong and weird ways, but…text messages tend to be short! I don't need a summary of a 5-word message.
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Tech Leaders Inauguration Memes Go Viral on Social Media
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So many great memes were born yesterday. The inauguration is the gift that keeps on giving for social media (Zuck 👀, Bush, Musk…) https://t.co/RiFn8P4Udn
— Paul Roetzer (@paulroetzer) 21 janvier 2025So many great memes were born yesterday. The inauguration is the gift that keeps on giving for social media (Zuck , Bush, Musk…)
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Apple’s DepthPro Revolutionizes Monocular Depth Estimation
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Apple's DepthPro ⚡️is quite impressive, producing pixel-perfect, high-resolution metric depth maps with sharp boundaries through monocular depth estimation.
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 21 janvier 2025
It outperforms all of its contenders like Metric3D v2 and DepthAnything in "in-the-wild" dynamic scenes.
In this article,… pic.twitter.com/FjE0nHyJrhApple's DepthPro is quite impressive, producing pixel-perfect, high-resolution metric depth maps with sharp boundaries through monocular depth estimation.
It outperforms all of its contenders like Metric3D v2 and DepthAnything in "in-the-wild" dynamic scenes. In this article, -
Meta AI’s Content Moderation on Mark Zuckerberg Trump Relationship
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Interesting what Meta AI does & doesn’t say about Mark’s inauguration photo. The unprompted AI-generated summary says comments were mixed, but if you ask Meta AI what they said about Mark’s relationship to Trump it starts writing but auto-deletes. More examples in the thread.