The AI Platform War Got Practical

Mike's take

If a demo looks like magic, they're hiding the cost. Ask what it charges, where it fails, and who owns your data. Then decide.

Top AI stories worth your time

• Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business — TechCrunch AI
  Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
• OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B — TechCrunch AI
  OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
• Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community — OpenAI
  OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
• How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions — OpenAI
  News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.
• Built in Fort Worth: Wistron Opens Advanced Manufacturing Plant to Produce NVIDIA AI Systems — NVIDIA
  The AI era runs on AI infrastructure. Many of these advanced systems are built and tested in Texas. Wistron opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility today in Fort Worth — a 324,000-square-foot greenfield plant produc

Jargon, decoded: Fine-tuning

Further training a pre-trained model on a specific dataset to specialize its behavior.

In plain English: Teaching a general AI your particular style or knowledge so it stops sounding generic.

Fact: Your instructions matter more than the tool.

Say who it's for, the tone, and the length. A specific ask beats a fancy model every time.

Try this today

Plan a week of dinners around what's already in your fridge. List the ingredients; ask for five simple meals. No extra shopping trip.

Try this prompt

Explain today's biggest AI news like I'm a smart 55-year-old business owner who doesn't want jargon. Give me the 'so what' in three sentences.