2025-10-06
From Silicon Valley to Nairobi: What the Global South’s AI leapfrogging teaches tech leaders
When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My own journey runs from coding business applications in Fortran and COBOL to systems analysis and design, IT project management, enterprise systems consulting, computing hardware sales and technology industry communications. All of it has been centered in the U.S., although I have collaborated with colleagues and clients across Europe and Asia.
My writing carries an American, tech-industry vantage point, although I make attempts to see a broader perspective. Perhaps that is fitting, since much of the frontier development of AI remains clustered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston and a [...]
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Someone hacked Silicon Valley crosswalks to spoof Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk
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2025-03-27
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2025-09-11
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2025-01-28
DeepSeek proves AI innovation isn’t ‘dictated’ by Silicon Valley
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2025-02-17
South Korea pauses downloads of DeepSeek AI over privacy concerns
DeepSeek, the massively popular Chinese AI assistant, has been temporarily unavailable from app stores in South Korea since February 15. A press release from the country’s data protection authority [...]
2025-05-15
Grok gave X users its opinion on ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, whether they liked it or not
If you’ve asked Grok, the AI chatbot baked into Elon Musk’s X platform, a question this week, you might have been slightly confused by its response. In what appears to have been some kind of bug t [...]