Douglas Dillon Professor @Kennedy_School | Former Director @BelferCenter | Author of "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap?"
2/ In heralding @OpenAI's contract with @Oracle to purchase $300 billion in computing power over the next five years, the @WSJ highlighted one major requirement: “4.5 gigawatts of power capacity, roughly comparable to the electricity produced by more than two Hoover Dams.”
2/ When Ukrainian President Zelenskyy arrived in the Oval Office for his meeting with President Trump two weeks ago, he was surprised to find that Trump had mounted a large DOD map of Ukraine on an easel next to the Resolute Desk. The map noted in bold red the percentage of each of the Ukrainian provinces that Russian troops now control. Altogether, this amounts to about 44,000 square miles.
2/ In the race to build AGI, no individual has undertaken a more focused and expensive campaign to recruit the best and brightest to his company than Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd).
2/ Robots, their human operators and engineers, fans, and investors filled an Olympic stadium in Beijing for the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games from Aug. 14 to 17. Chinese-made robots competed with those from 15 other countries in 26 events. China’s entries took gold in over half, including track, dance, kung fu and activities like room cleaning and medication sorting. In all, China came away with 37 medals.
2/ As the picture suggests, I had the good fortune on Tuesday afternoon to spend several hours with Warren Buffett and his colleague, Ted Weschler. More than a decade ago, he reached out to me to begin a conversation about nuclear danger. And it has been my great good fortune that we have continued talking on a regular basis since then.
