After years of debate as to whether we should tear it down or repurpose it, I propose we turn the 8th Wonder of the World into Earth's largest AI data center. During Houston's space race in the 1960s, the Astrodome became the world's first domed, air-conditioned stadium.

Frank Gehry has passed at 96. As one of greatest, most creative and inventive architects of our time, I've admired him ever since I had my first drafting table as a teenager. Rest in peace, Frank. You won't be forgotten.

When you hear a company executive say they're using "Symbolic AI" to keep "AI Agents" from going rogue, just remember that's a fancy way of saying they're creating a policy using a "Rules Engine" or "If This Then That" to wrap a probabilistic technology with determinism.

Are Foundation Models the next Operating System?

The Figure 03 household robot from Figure lands in TIME magazine’s best inventions of 2025. Using an AI neural network, this humanoid robot can fold your clothes and load the dishwasher.

This makes me happy

Never forget those who attacked America. Never forget how Americans put aside their differences and came together.

I just heard the term, “Universal Basic Compute” or “UBC” on Peter Diamandis’ Moonshots podcast. This is an analog to the “Universal Basic Income” or “UBI” idea. In this scenario, every citizen is supplied w/ a basic level of computing so that everyone is empowered with AI & no one is left behind.

The United States government has officially taken a ten percent stake in Intel Corporation. Using $5.7 billion from unpaid CHIPS Act grants and $3.2 billion from the Secure Enclave program, the U.S. made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel’s common stock.

The surface of the Earth is being tiled with data centers in a race toward AGI and ASI. The bottom of cold oceans and rings of data centers around the planet orbiting in cold space are next.

AI vs. the Environment in the battle for Earth

Put the needle on the record

GPT-5 has arrived!

Super interesting episode of Peter H. Diamandis Moonshots podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/55ey...

Honored to be named a Top 50 Internet of Things Global Thought Leader and Influencer for 2025 by Thinkers360. Learn more at www.thinkers360.com/top-50-globa...

It’s amazing how we turn seed, soil, sun, and water into food for all of humanity

Does this look familiar to you?

Hope y’all had a great weekend!

IDC's Cloud Pulse, Q1 2025: Executive Summary This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's Q1 2025 Cloud Pulse Survey findings. It covers #cloud buyer digital transformation, digital budgets, app deployments, cloud strategy, and #AI Check it out at: my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?c...

A fully-utilized GPU in an AI data center consumes as much energy each day as a typical four-person home at around 30kWh.

The AI-Powered #EnterpriseBrain represents a quantum leap in #knowledgemanagement. This #LLM + #LRM resides in your organization’s #AI-Ready, private infrastructure and is continuously fed by #MCP-connected #data sources from across the #enterprise.

Juneteenth, or June 19, marks the day in 1865 that Union Army Major Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Orders No. 3 in Galveston, which emancipated more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state of Texas. Two years after it had become U.S. law.

Alien vs. Predator

Digital Twins continue to be a game changer in maintaining the operational effectiveness of complex systems.

On this #MemorialDay we honor those Americans who gave their last full measure of devotion to this country because freedom isn’t free.

Private Cloud Fundamentals: Data Residency Data residency is relevant for organizations that handle sensitive or personal information since different countries, provinces, states, and local municipalities have varying laws and regulations regarding data storage and privacy.

Jensen and Satya chat about accelerated workloads with Nvidia on Azure

Satya and Elon announce Grok is coming to Azure

Sam + Satya discuss OpenAI Codex

Satya Nadella kicks things off at Microsoft Build discussing the Agentic Web

We're going GLOBAL in July with EDGE AI Milan 2025 - see you then! Get your tix at milan2025.edgeaifoundation.org... #edegai #ai #events #milan #italy @arduinolibs.bsky.social @robtiffany.bsky.social @edgeimpulse.com @edge-ai-vision.com @ai-edge-insight.bsky.social @aicompetence.org

Back in Washington

The future is built by Optimists

Thrilled and honored to be named among the Top 50 global Digital Twin thought leaders by Thinkers360

IoT 7 has arrived More than three decades after the Real Time Data team delivered the first Internet of Things release at the dawn of the open Internet, the IoT Coffee Talk team is thrilled to announce IoT 7.

This weekend, the dream team from Real Time Data that brought #IoT 1.0 to the world with connected vending machines in the early 90s celebrated 30 years of our Sagebrush and Trout camping trip in the Seep Lakes of Eastern Washington.

Clouds on Water

An organization’s Private Cloud journey begins with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). Compute, storage, and networking must be software defined and virtualized in order to deliver a public cloud experience in an organization’s data center or colocation facility.

Homemade pizza 🍕 tonight

If you’re looking for the best French salted butter to accompany the bread on tonight’s charcuterie board, this is as good as it gets. Have a nice weekend everyone!

My fellow co-producers and I are thrilled that “Aliens Expanded” has been nominated for the Rondo Hatton “Best Documentary” award. This makes me sound like a really important Hollywood movie mogul. Fingers crossed that I find myself walking down the red carpet soon. Any red carpet will do :)

When you’re waiting in line at Grizzly River Run at Disneyland, you walk past this park ranger office shown in the picture below. It definitely has me looking forward to a summer of visiting our beautiful national parks.

🚨Renewables + storage is expected to make up 50+% of power capacity needed by 2035 to meet data center demand. But almost 2/3 of additional electricity generation will come from fossil fuels, BNEF said in its latest report. With @mchediak.bsky.social and Josh Saul www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Happy IoT Day everyone!

Happy #IoTDay! Explore all the activities at iotday.org Don't miss the presentation by @robtiffany.bsky.social on "Saving the Earth with AI + the Internet of Things" at youtu.be/h13nAtTT368 Join for an insightful session! #mvpbuzz #iot #sustainability #environmrnent #ai

The world premiere of "Saving the Earth with AI and the Internet of Things" streams live on YouTube tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 8:00am Pacific at youtu.be/h13nAtTT368 as part of the IoT Day 2025 so make sure to add this to your calendar.