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China Is Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race by Liza Lin, Josh Chin, Raffaele Huang

William Attardi on July 2, 2025

Chinese artificial-intelligence companies are loosening the U.S.’s global stranglehold on AI, challenging American superiority and setting the stage for a global arms race in the technology. In Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, users ranging from multinational banks to public universities are turning to large language models from Chinese companies such as startup DeepSeek and e-commerce giant Alibaba’s alternatives to American offerings such as ChatGPT. OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains the world’s predominant AI consumer chatbot, with 910 million global downloads compared with DeepSeek’s 125 million, figures from researcher Sensor Tower show. American AI is widely seen as the industry’s gold standard, thanks to advantages in computing semiconductors, cutting-edge research and access to financial capital. The competition, some industry insiders say, has set the world on the path toward a technological Cold War in which countries will have to decide to align with either American or Chinese AI systems. China Is Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race – WSJ

I Quit Google Search for AI—and I’m Not Going Back by Joanna Stern

William Attardi on May 28, 2025

 Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google’s own AI—do it better.

Key Points

  • AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity provide clear, human-sounding answers to search queries, eliminating the need for scrolling through sponsored links and clickbait.
  • AI search excels in providing concise information, product recommendations, and how-to guides, while Google Search remains superior for accessing specific webpages and accurate local information.
  • While AI chatbots offer convenience, it’s crucial to verify information by clicking on source links to support trusted sources and maintain the open web.

I Quit Google for ChatGPT and Other AI Search—and I’m Not Going Back – WSJ

AI Changes Search Game for Marketers

William Attardi on May 12, 2025

 In a matter of months, artificial intelligence has begun to change how people search for things online in ways that alarm some marketers. Consumers who use traditional search engines like Google and Bing are now greeted atop their search results by AI-generated summaries of the topics at hand. OpenAI said last month that ChatGPT will soon roll out a shopping button that redirects users to a merchant’s website, where they can buy the product they were researching. OpenAI says ChatGPT now processes roughly one billion searches a week, but Google handles 5 trillion searches each year, or around 100 times that total, according to its most recent figures.  “This is not big for us yet, but it could be,” Joy Howard said of LLM searches.  Q1i1BlXWfajcTTkzC3B2-WSJNewsPaper-5-12-2025.pdf

OpenAI to Soon Offer Deep Research To All ChatGPT Users for Free by Akshay Kumar

William Attardi on April 1, 2025

Earlier in February, OpenAI introduced Deep Research, its new agentic capability in ChatGPT. The feature allows you to use artificial intelligence to compile factual information into detailed reports on any topic. So far, the advanced functionality of one of the world’s most popular chatbots has only been exclusively available to Plus, Pro, and Enterprise subscribers. However, OpenAI is all set to offer the Deep Research AI agent to all ChatGPT users for free. Currently, you need to pay $20 per month for the ChatGPT Plus subscription to use the Deep Research functionality. You can avail yourself of extended access to the feature by paying $200/month for the ChatGPT Pro subscription.  ChatGPT’s Deep Research AI agent can do work for you independently. Once you give it a prompt, it will analyze and synthesize hundreds of sources online to make a detailed report at the level of a research analyst. You can think of it as your very own analyst who can go off on its own and report findings to you in a matter of minutes. It can also cross-verify the report against the millions of sites on the internet. OpenAI to soon offer Deep Research to all ChatGPT users for free

 

Implementing AI in Electrical Applications— Part 1 by Michael Morris

William Attardi on March 17, 2025

From the EC&M e-books library: How the industry is incorporating artificial intelligence into the electrical space.  Ever since the rise of ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has been unavoidable. Just about every industry is developing ways to incorporate AI into their field, and the electrical industry is no different. EC&M has followed the rise of AI in order to keep our readers informed on how the technology is impacting the electrical industry. This content has been immensely popular, so we decided to collect some of the best articles into our first e-book of 2025. The topic of artificial intelligence and its role in the electrical industry is such an important and rapidly evolving one that we decided we’ll need two e-books to do it justice. Stay tuned for “Implementing AI in Electrical Applications — Part 2” releasing later in 2025.  67d1dc96c1db52f96511aefc-ecm_ebook_implementing_ai (1).pdf

Elon Musk Unveils Grok 3, Says It Outperforms All AI Rivals

William Attardi on February 16, 2025

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that Grok 3, the latest version of his AI chatbot developed by xAI, is in its final development stages and will be released in one to two weeks. Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Musk claimed that Grok 3 surpasses all existing AI chatbots in reasoning capabilities. In the tests we’ve done so far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that’s been released, Musk stated, adding that the model analyzes its own mistakes to improve accuracy. The AI will compete with ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google DeepMind), Claude (Anthropic), Mistral AI, and Meta’s (META) Llama. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Elon Musk Unveils Grok 3, Says It Outperforms All AI Rivals

Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI by Marc Zao-Sanders, CEO filtered.com

William Attardi on January 15, 2025

Since ChatGPT’s launch two years ago, generative AI (gen AI) has been promising to reshape how work gets done. The use cases are many and varied, and we’re still discovering what’s going to work best, for us as individuals, in teams, and as organizations. In a surprising twist, it’s the white-collar work of the office that seems to be more imminently replaceable than the blue-collar work of the field and factory. Gen AI has several attributes that we humans lack. It’s always on. It draws on a vast segment of the web. It generates output instantly. It can scale endlessly.  This new era of AI can feel intimidating for the limited, lumbering life forms that created it. We now need to look harder to see where our unique value still lies. Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI

What Do the Colors on Bread Tags Mean? – These color-coded tags indicate the date the bread was baked and packaged.  Now that you know that the color-coded tags actually mean something, how can you remember which color means which day? Luckily there is an easy way to remember the schedule. The colors correspond to weekdays in alphabetical order: Blue (Monday), Green (Tuesday), Red (Thursday), White (Friday), then Yellow (Saturday). Maybe you just learned something you did not know…..