Brad Casemore

Will the Tech Industry Go Underground? Datacenter Future Could Be Subterranean

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Datacenters in Space: Not a Sitcom, but Maybe It Should Be There’s no serenity now

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The AI Boom: Three Secondary Concerns and One Primary Anxiety Maybe it’s not a bubble on the verge of bursting, but nor is it sustainable

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We’re in a Strange New World And we haven’t even figured out how to use AI gainfully yet

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Earnings Calls Tout AI Growth, but Jobs Don’t Follow For now, investors are winning; employees not so much

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AI Puts Consultancies Between a Rock and a Hard Place How and Why Consultants Made the Cardinal Error of Overpromising and Underdelivering

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At Struggling and Thriving Companies Alike, Employees are Getting the Chop It Wasn’t Always So

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AI Doesn’t Worry Me, but the People Behind It Are Another Matter It's a Powerful Tool in the Wrong Hands

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Don’t Blame Nvidia for this China Crisis Stuck in the Middle, Getting a Kicking from Both Sides

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Burner phones, wiped socials: the extreme precautions for visitors to Trump’s America Horror stories about detainments at the border have also soured some from visiting during Trump’s second term

It’s depressing that people considering travel to the United States have to resort to such measures. These are the kinds of precautions you might take before traveling to a banana republic. What happened to free speech in the U.S.? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Addressing Big Questions: Is the AI Market a Bubble About to Burst? It's Probably Not a Full-Fledged Bubble, but Here's How You'll Be Able Tell

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AI Acquihire Deals Benefit a Few at the Cost of Many There Must Be a Better Way, Especially for Abandoned Employees

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It’s Mad, Mad World Pointless AI Chess Tournaments, Trump’s CEO Tirades, and the Future of Work

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This is not news. If Trump had played a clean game of golf, or refrained from lying for 24 hours, it would have been news.

Equinix Greets an Unexpected Visitor: “Oh, Look, It’s Elliott Capital Management” The Activist Investor Might Need to Modify Its Cookbook

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The “Tech Oligarchs” series of articles in Le Monde makes for compelling reading, highly recommended.

So Trump lied — again — when he said he wasn’t mentioned in the files.

Donald Trump’s name reported to feature in DoJ files about Jeffrey Epstein Wall Street Journal report says president’s name appears ‘multiples times’ as Congress subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell * US politics –follow live Donald Trump faced a fresh crisis on Wednesday as it was reported that his name appears in US justice department files about Jeffrey Epstein and the Congress subpoenaed testimony from the sex offender’s partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell. The US president’s spokesman denied an account in the Wall Street Journal newspaper that Trump was told in May by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, that he is named in the now notorious Epstein files. Continue reading...

Donald Trump’s name reported to feature in DoJ files about Jeffrey Epstein

I’ve noticed that the New York Yankees struggle to catch and throw the baseball. Unfortunately for them, those are essential attributes of the sport.

Trump tempted to release Epstein Files just to see own name in print MAR-A-LAGO, FL - While steadfastly refusing to answer questions surrounding his ties to notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly considered releasing the DOJ'...

Trump tempted to release Epstein Files just to see own name in print

Observations on OpenAI, Fractured Identities, and Misplaced Idealism It’s Not a Book Review, but Books Provided the Inspiration

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Observations on OpenAI, Fractured Identities, and Misplaced Idealism It’s Not a Book Review, but Books Provided the Inspiration

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Exclusive: Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit cuts jobs Amazon cut jobs in its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit Thursday, a spokesperson confirmed following a Reuters inquiry. Several groups within AWS were impacted.

AWS has made some job cuts, according to Reuters. I assume details on the number of employees and departments affected are forthcoming. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Stocks Climb as Trump Denies Plan to Fire Powell: Markets Wrap (Bloomberg) -- Speculation about the fate of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell set off a short-lived tempest in financial markets Wednesday, with volatility mostly quelled after President Donald Tru...

Will anybody call out this blatant market manipulation? Trump pulls this stunt repeatedly, most often with his tariff hijinks. Markets go down, then go back up when Trump reverses course. He thinks he’s clever, but this is glaringly obvious chicanery. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/stocks-c...

Meta's Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI data centers in superintelligence push Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.

Quote: "We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan," the billionaire CEO said.
That’s not efficient, and I doubt that it’s sustainable. www.reuters.com/business/zuc...

NVIDIA shares guidance to defend GDDR6 GPUs against Rowhammer attacks NVIDIA is warning users to activate System Level Error-Correcting Code  mitigation to protect against Rowhammer attacks on graphical processors with GDDR6 memory.

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Where did Trump go to school? The professors at Wharton should hang their heads in shame. After reading his “tariff letters,” I note that he can barely string a coherent sentence together. Moreover, his erratic use of capitalization follows no discernible pattern. It’s madness on a stick.

There’s No Consensus on Our AI-Inflected Future Recent Study Says AI Tools Actually Slow Down Software Development

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Have you read Trump’s tariff letters to other countries? They appear to be written by grade schoolers, though perhaps I’m doing grade schoolers a disservice. Americans, you’re really carrying this anti-intellectualism a bit too far.