Assorted Links for Saturday
- Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elong Musk's Team (NYT). Here is the lawsuit that requested the order.
- Baltic states begin historic switch away from Russian power grid. This effort was in the works well before the Ukraine war.
- IT unemployment went up in January - as did the number of new IT job openings
- Leslie Lamport, who revolutionized how computers talk to each other, is now working on how engineers talk to their machines. There are also links to some of his papers.
- France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter
- Wind propulsion now a force to be reckoned with
- DeepSeek's rise shows why China's top AI talent is skipping Silicon Valley
- The Global AI Talent Tracker 2.0
- Non-Western founders say Deepseek is proof that innovation need not cost billions of dollars
- Tarrif increases for China and Canada (if enacted) could upend the comics industry
- Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data