Tag: US
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The coming AI backlash
Along with datacenter backlash, 2026 and 2027 is shaping up to have a big, general population backlash against AI. Polls show that 70% of Americans think AI is moving too fast, over 50% have negative views of it, and just 18% of young people say they feel hopeful about it. Partly, they are turned off…
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Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
How the 1944 CIA Sabotage Manual Accidentally Became Your Software Acquisition Playbook – as always, have less meeting. Stellan Skarsgård: ‘Don’t try to be perfect. Tell your children: I’m sorry, I’m a piece of crap, but I love you’ – “I believe that art is important because it allows you to see the world through…
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The US needs, even wants China. From the revealed preferences files: Aside from rhetorical commitments to restoring domestic industrial capacity and a variety of China Select Committee investigations that tend to go ignored, there’s near-weekly evidence that Congress and the current administration are not entirely serious about leading a whole of nation effort to eliminate…
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The charts say things are OK
It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade. 🔗 One-Third of US Families Earn Over $150,000
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AI chatbots at the municipal level
Using an AI chat desk to augment the support desk for a Us county. This seems like a basic packaging of AI stuff that you could sell to thousands of places. It probably also exposes the redundancy and waste on the US Federalist system. E.g., does every county and city need different bulk trash pickup…
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The poor semicolon.
The poor semicolon. 🔗 AI loves an em dash — writers in the US, on the other hand, aren’t so keen
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Donald Trump’s digital landgrab – File under “sovereign cloud”: “The state department is now claiming otherwise: if you’re on the internet and using a service provided by a US tech company, they say, then Donald Trump sets the rules. The US is quietly declaring sovereignty over cyberspace and expecting the world to acquiesce, making an…
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Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? – Checks out on both sides.
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Dutch people concerned with U.S., Russia, Ukraine developments; More support EU army –
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The Justice Department Accuses Apple Of Smartphone Monopoly – ’When you’re as big as Apple, there’s a target on your back. The company’s market capitalization flirts with three trillion dollars, but more importantly, it commands a resounding 60%+ share of the smartphone market in the U.S. Therein lies the rub – our phones are the…
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US Banks Must Get Ready For Open Banking Now – Banks and regulations: the source of enterprise tech spend! It’ll probably make banking better for individuals too.
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Use Forrester’s insights to calm depositors and prevent a bank run – Europeans are trusting their banks a lot more than Americans: ‘Among US online consumers, 40% agreed with the statement, “Recent problems with banks have made me more concerned that my bank will not be there for me when I need it.” French online…
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Link: It’s Time To Transform Insurance Claims
Protecting customers in times of duress is the basic purpose of insurance, and yet only 57% of US online adults feel confident that their insurance company will treat them fairly when they have a claim.[1] Poor claims experiences have immediate business effect. In the UK, 71% of property & casualty insurance customers would consider switching…
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Link: Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at Big Red
These US-based layoffs are part of a broad round of job cuts around the globe this month, said to range from 500 to 14,000 at the database giant. The biz employs about 140,000 worldwide. All the articles say it’s in the cloud business. Source: Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at…
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Link: When Culture Doesn’t Translate
Unfortunately, the Thai manager told me, his U.S. colleagues usually didn’t send the agenda until an hour before the call, so his team was unable to prepare. And it struggled to understand what was said during the call, because the U.S. participants spoke too quickly. He also said that the Americans rarely invited comments from…
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Link: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati
It’s hard to be Huawei in the US already, and under Trump it must be unbearable. Meanwhile, I hear they’re sucking up marketshare elsewhere. Original source: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati
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Link: U.S. CIO Suzette Kent: Don’t change IT modernization plan; ‘turbo boost’ it
When it comes to digital transformation, the goal of businesses is to drive profit, or more broadly, get more money. Finding government’s goal is a tad more tricky. Here’s a good, brief explanation: ‘The end goal of all this, Kent reminded the crowd, is to improve agencies’ ability to achieve their various missions, deliver “excellent”…
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Link: Global race for 5G heats up with latest US Congress bill
“Prices vary widely across the United States but the average cost of installing equipment on a pole is around $2,000 per year. AT&T recently complained that it had received an estimate of $8,000 a year from a city in California. Even in low-cost Georgia, the local government felt it could get away with asking for…
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Link: Foreign-Born Engineers Dominate Bay Area Tech Jobs
“Nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valley women who work in computer, mathematical, architectural, and engineering occupations were born outside of the U.S., mostly in Asia. That includes nearly 79 percent of those in computer and mathematical professions. The data showed slightly more than 70 percent of men in those professions are foreign born.” Original source: Foreign-Born…
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