From Our Weekly Note and More
On Amazon, Google and Nuclear Reactors
Last week, Amazon signed three new agreements to support the development of nuclear energy projects including enabling the construction of several new Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). and Google signed and agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple SMRs developed by Kairos Power.
On AI-created Podcasts, San Francisco Governance and more
Comments on using Google's "experimental" NotebookLM tool to create audio content from the "Lifting the Fog: On Budgets, Civic Innovation, Silos and more" report.
On AI, Nuclear Energy, Data Centers and more
Comments on the Constellation Energy, Microsoft deal at Three Mile Island; research from Goldman Saks and more.
AI at JPMorganChase & more
Comments on AI from CEO James Dimon, their efforts in wealth and asset management, along with the University of Chicago study “Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models.”
On Heat Wave Trends, Risks, Illness and more
Comments from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Center for Disease Control and others.
Four Videos to Consider - On Artificial Intelligence
Comments by Max Tegmar (physicist and AI researcher at MiT),AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li (Stanford professor and Co-Director of the Human-Centered AI Institute), Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad (computer scientist and professor at Northeastern University), Marina Danilevsky (senior research scientist at IBM.)
“Lifting the Fog” on San Francisco Government
Last week, the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury released "Lifting the Fog" On Budgets, Innovation, Silos, and More", that identifies the need to improve budget oversight, increase interdepartmental cooperation and provide clarity on the government’s function and structure.
On Technology and the Olympic Games
Comments from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Vincent Strubel, director general of ANSSI (France’s cybersecurity agency), and efforts about surveillance systems from Videtics, Orange Business, ChapsVision, Wintics
On Robotics and "Physical AI"
Comments from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and The Economist article “Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?
Views on Creativity, Entertainment and AI
Comments from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos (NY Times interview) and Dawn Ostroff, board member of Paramount Global and Mattel, in her article “Memo to Hollywood: AI Is a Threat — And an Opportunity”
Softbank, Microsoft, Nvidia and a $1 Billion Autonomous Investment
Comments on Wayve, a UK based startup, and its $1 billion series C funding from Softbank, Microsoft, Nvidia and others to develop artificial intelligence technologies that help autonomous vehicles
On Americans’ Views of Social Media Companies
Last week, Pew Research Center released “Americans’ Views of Technology Companies” with comments on Social Media.
On AI and Gene Editing
Last week, Profluent, a start-up based in Berkeley, CA, announced the release of an AI-created gene editor and its uses its OpenCRISPR uses “AI that learned from massive scale sequence and biological context to generate millions of diverse CRISPR-like proteins
On National Security, Technology and AI
Last week, Rand Corp. released the report “Artificial Intelligence and Critical Infrastructure”