Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing

    This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.

This week: 14-20 September, 2026

Summary of this week:

• The Russians are still in Ukraine
• Everyone wants pacing AI
• Links to Mr. Amodei's essay
• Link to Microsoft's Humanist AI Code of Conduct
• xxx
• xxx
• xxx

Monday 14 September 2026

Everyone wants to talk about "pacing AI." What happened? Everyone wants to halt datacenters. What happened?

It's called negotiation. Some businesses make huge profit margins until some consumers learn about the margins and how to negotiate. No news here.

The pacing of AI development and big finance.

Big plans at our NSA. Let's see.

Big tech continues to toss billion$ back and forth. The datacenter is the factory and bring industrial capacity. The AI-focused datacenter brings increased productivity to businesses across the greater economy.

Here is an opposing view on datacenters as some see them as pollution centers endangering the health of Americans. Then use some sense and cleanup the act. We learned to live with auto factories.

Anthropic claims profits two quarters in a row.

Those who have already made it in big tech AI want standards that will help keep upstarts from starting up.

The ruler of China wants a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) for AI.

To no surprise, our current President is pushing for more push and less pace on AI. He is a businessman. He wants business.

Ah, Flock cameras, reporter's cameras, and so on. If a person, regardless if he works for Flock, feels endangered by someone following him, he can call the police. Enough said. If you se up a camera in public to film something in public fine. You don't, however, follow a person when they drive away.

Meanwhile in California, Uber and Lyft drivers pretty much cancel their jobs. The self-driving vehicles are waiting to take their place.

Forget the prompt, "Write me an essay." There are large and complex documents that give teams of people fits and headaches. There are some new AI-based systems that help much. And then there is the question, "Why are we attempting to write such large and complex documents? If we can't write them, who can read them.

If you are serious and trying to make a living at writing, "Keep Track and Back Up Your Writing"

Tuesday 15 September 2026

A long piece about AI as normal technology (AINT). I generally agree as I don't see any magic in the current slate of AI systems.

Here is Mr. Amodei's essay on pacing AI.

Mr. Altman meets with Mr. Trump.

OpenAI buys a camera technology company for a mere $300million (with only an m). Hint, hint, what does this portend?

More OpenAI news: they have hired people to look at the prompts and answers other people are sending and receiving. This is a way to improve the performance for everyone.

Nvidia releases a variant of a graphics card tailored for AI operations. They pack in 84GB of memory. That is 2.6x bigger than before. The processor will probably be priced somewhere around $10,000. Pretty steep for home use, but it can make sense for some businesses.

The 27 versions of all of Apple's operating systems are here.

Quoting the headline: Trump slams Dario Amodei, saying (I omit the quote marks as that messes up my editor, sorry) the only control or guardrails that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades! I tend to agree with Mr. Trump on this one as the basic engineering mistakes being made by some of the AI companies are astounding.

Microsoft publishes a Humanist AI Code of Conduct. Per a quick review, I go along with Microsoft's document. The software is a tool for people to use when they wish and not when they don't. Duh (or is it No Duh)?

We continue the angst about license-plate-reading technology.

Wednesday 16 September 2026

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Friday 18 September 2026

Saturday 19 September 2026

Sunday 20 September 2026