Rob Tiffany

After years of debate as to whether we should tear it down or repurpose it, I propose we turn the 8th Wonder of the World into Earth's largest AI data center.

During Houston's space race in the 1960s, the Astrodome became the world's first domed, air-conditioned stadium.

Frank Gehry has passed at 96. As one of greatest, most creative and inventive architects of our time, I've admired him ever since I had my first drafting table as a teenager. Rest in peace, Frank. You won't be forgotten.

When you hear a company executive say they're using "Symbolic AI" to keep "AI Agents" from going rogue, just remember that's a fancy way of saying they're creating a policy using a "Rules Engine" or "If This Then That" to wrap a probabilistic technology with determinism.

Are Foundation Models the next Operating System?

The Figure 03 household robot from Figure lands in TIME magazine’s best inventions of 2025. Using an AI neural network, this humanoid robot can fold your clothes and load the dishwasher.

This makes me happy

Never forget those who attacked America. Never forget how Americans put aside their differences and came together.

I just heard the term, “Universal Basic Compute” or “UBC” on Peter Diamandis’ Moonshots podcast. This is an analog to the “Universal Basic Income” or “UBI” idea. In this scenario, every citizen is supplied w/ a basic level of computing so that everyone is empowered with AI & no one is left behind.

The United States government has officially taken a ten percent stake in Intel Corporation. Using $5.7 billion from unpaid CHIPS Act grants and $3.2 billion from the Secure Enclave program, the U.S. made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel’s common stock.

The surface of the Earth is being tiled with data centers in a race toward AGI and ASI. The bottom of cold oceans and rings of data centers around the planet orbiting in cold space are next.

AI vs. the Environment in the battle for Earth

Put the needle on the record

GPT-5 has arrived!

Emad Mostaque: The Plan to Save Humanity From AI | EP #184 Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Episode

Super interesting episode of Peter H. Diamandis Moonshots podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/55ey...

Honored to be named a Top 50 Internet of Things Global Thought Leader and Influencer for 2025 by Thinkers360.

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It’s amazing how we turn seed, soil, sun, and water into food for all of humanity

Does this look familiar to you?

Hope y’all had a great weekend!

IDC's Cloud Pulse, 1Q25: Executive Summary IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, networks, and services to provide complete solutions for succeeding in these expanding markets.

IDC's Cloud Pulse, Q1 2025: Executive Summary
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's Q1 2025 Cloud Pulse Survey findings. It covers #cloud buyer digital transformation, digital budgets, app deployments, cloud strategy, and #AI

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A fully-utilized GPU in an AI data center consumes as much energy each day as a typical four-person home at around 30kWh.

The AI-Powered #EnterpriseBrain represents a quantum leap in #knowledgemanagement. This #LLM + #LRM resides in your organization’s #AI-Ready, private infrastructure and is continuously fed by #MCP-connected #data sources from across the #enterprise.

Juneteenth, or June 19, marks the day in 1865 that Union Army Major Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Orders No. 3 in Galveston, which emancipated more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state of Texas. Two years after it had become U.S. law.

Alien vs. Predator

Digital Twins continue to be a game changer in maintaining the operational effectiveness of complex systems.

On this #MemorialDay we honor those Americans who gave their last full measure of devotion to this country because freedom isn’t free.

Private Cloud Fundamentals: Data Residency

Data residency is relevant for organizations that handle sensitive or personal information since different countries, provinces, states, and local municipalities have varying laws and regulations regarding data storage and privacy.