Alex Kantrowitz is a WrapPRO contributor. He’s the founder of Big Technology, a free newsletter and podcast about Big Tech and society. He’s also the author of “Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever” and a contributor at CNBC.

Alex Kantrowitz
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				Universities Are Woefully Under-Resourced For AI Research. They’re Fighting To Change That. | CommentaryStanford University has 300 GPUs. Microsoft will have 1.8 million. Here’s what’s needed to make academia relevant in AI research. Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Rough Times Ahead for News Business as Trump Bump Gives Way to Trump Dump | CommentaryCancellations and disinterest hit news business hard as second Trump term approaches. Pro Available to WrapPRO members Media
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				The AI Story Will Roll On in Trump’s Second Term | ColumnHistory often repeats itself, but the AI story is now too consequential to take a backseat again as Trump returns to the White House Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Tech’s Winners and Losers From Trump’s Election | CommentaryPrediction markets thrived, Elon got his wish, Facebook sat out, podcasts dominated and Silicon Valley mattered. Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Trade War? Tariffs? How A Trump Election Would Change TechBreaking down how Trump might impact Apple, semiconductors, and ecommerce should he be elected and implement the tariffs he’s proposed. Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Four Truths About OpenAI’s Wild Financial PositionA peek inside OpenAI’s books shows a company losing money fast and coming up with novel profitability calculations. Is it sustainable? Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Where’s The Generative AI ROI? Start With The Supply Chain | CommentaryAn industry that communicates with unstructured documents turns to generative AI to clean up its processes. And it’s delivering real returns. Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Meta’s Quiet Election | CommentarySeparating politics and social media is a good thing. Pro Available to WrapPRO members Politics
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				Hands On With Meta’s New Orion Augmented Reality Glasses | CommentaryMeta’s moonshot device arrives. Will this justify the billions of dollars that Meta has spent on its Reality Labs? Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Meet the Editor Who Turned Himself Into an AI News AnchorElihay Vidal’s AI avatar looks pretty darn human, and it will read you the latest news from a convincing synthetic media set. But why did he do it? Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				Is OpenAI’s New ‘o1’ Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For? | CommentaryThe new AI model can reason through really hard problems. Some will see its promise before others. Pro Available to WrapPRO members AI
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				The Russia-Funded YouTuber Story Will Only Get Bigger | CommentaryYouTube has removed Tenet Media, a political network allegedly funded by Russia. But who’s next? 
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				This Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs. | CommentaryLanguage models powering bots like ChatGPT cannot conceive the physical world. Will the next leap come from teaching AI sensory common sense? Pro Available to WrapPRO members AI
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				Surprisingly, Google Is Thriving In The GenAI Era | CommentaryInstead of surrendering to ChatGPT, Google is thriving as dark prophesies around its future haven’t come to fruition — at least not yet. Pro Available to WrapPRO members Tech
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				The End Of Investors’ GenAI Honeymoon | CommentaryFrom Goldman to Sequoia, investors are questioning whether the massive investment in AI will ever pay off. Pro Available to WrapPRO members WrapPRO














