Monthly Archives: December 2025

Start up Tavus has an AI Santa that people can talk to, and people talk. They talk to AI Santa a lot, as in for hours a day. How do people have time for this? Or is it kids? I don’t think Swedish tomte (Santa) would do this, Swedes are too practical. Tomte would be too busy making sure […]

Remember that talk about an AI executive order just before Thanksgiving. It’s here and seeks federal preemption with all caps screaming.  ENSURING A NATIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A privacy expert is working on phone service that protects your identity. Anonymous phone service, eh? Talk about an issue screaming for legislative action. @wired

Nividia is backing a space data center start up from Starcloud. Starcloud’s tagline: As launch costs fall, data centers in space will leverage 24/7 solar energy and radiative cooling, rapidly deploying to gigawatt-scale, avoiding permitting constraints on Earth. @cnbc

“MIT Sloan professor and 2024 Nobel laureate Simon Johnson has been appointed as an AI Ambassador to the United Kingdom, alongside business and government leaders, under the U.K. government’s new plan to harness artificial intelligence to drive economic growth and innovation.” @mitsloan

Name the first state to buy bitcoin. I’ll give you a hint. It starts with T and ends in “exas.” At the end of November, the state purchased $5 million in bitcoin, valued at $87,000 per coin at purchase, through a Blackrock administered exchange. The state has allocated a total of $10 million for its […]

Louisiana is home to a Hyperion data center project by Meta. The project is located in a rural portion of the state and since it began “has coincided with” a 600% spike in truck crashes on the two lane rural roads. A highway safety researcher at LSU sums it up as “I think it’s incumbent of […]

The country’s first quantum powered telecom system will be in New Mexico. The state is positioning itself to be a leader in quantum technologies. Fast Company says quantum is the key to energy efficient AI.  NextGov | New Mexico unveils quantum telecom network