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Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break, he suggests, only a steady, almost imperceptible ascent toward abundance. Intelligence will become as accessible as electricity. Robots will be performing useful real-world tasks by 2027. Scientific discovery will…
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Nvidia’s ‘AI Factory’ narrative faces reality check as inference wars expose 70% margins

The gloves came off at Tuesday at VB Transform 2025 as alternative chip makers directly challenged Nvidia’s dominance narrative during a panel about inference, exposing a fundamental contradiction: How can AI inference be a commoditized “factory” and command 70% gross margins? Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq, didn’t mince words when discussing Nvidia’s carefully crafted messaging. “AI…
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IBM sees enterprise customers are using ‘everything’ when it comes to AI, the challenge is matching the LLM to the right use case

Over the last 100 years, IBM has seen many different tech trends rise and fall. What tends to win out are technologies where there is choice. At VB Transform 2025 today, Armand Ruiz, VP of AI Platform at IBM detailed how Big Blue is thinking about generative AI and how its enterprise users are actually deploying the technology. A key theme that Ruiz emphasized is that at this point, it’s not…
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Solos unveils AirGo A5 and AirGo V2 smart glasses with hands-free AI

Solos is unveiling two new smart glasses models with hands-free AI: AirGo A5 and AirGo V2. With intuitive interaction, superior sound, advanced video capabilities, and camera-enabled AI, Solos said the two products set a new benchmark for wearable intelligence, making wearable AI more intuitive, accessible, and integrated into daily life. The Boston company unveiled them at the Smart Glasses…
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