Praveen Puri

Friday, November 14, 2025

An AI Artist Has The #1 Song This Week

“Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Country chart this week. The twist? Breaking Rust is an AI, not human, singer.

https://youtu.be/OU71XDWYeIk

AI Disillusionment

A lot of articles these days are focusing on disillusionment with AI and reference the now-infamous MIT report.  But, from a historical perspective, this is nothing new and doesn't mean that AI itself will prove useless. All previous major inventions (electricity, cars, personal computers, the internet) had a time gap from when they came out, to when they achieved mainstream adoption. During these gaps, there were a lot of startups, a lot of experimenting, setbacks, and money lost.
I suspect the main reason is that, with all these technologies, for businesses to extract the maximum value, they have to make changes to their business processes and strategies. At first, they simply try to use the technology to speed up their existing processes, which weren't designed with the technology in mind.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Incredible Fact: Ford vs. Tesla Electric Cars

Today, I read something incredible (I added the bold):

Ford's CEO had an EV wake-up call after tearing apart cars from Tesla and its rivals in China.

Speaking on an upcoming episode of the "Office Hours: Business Edition" podcast, Jim Farley said the "shocking" realization of how far ahead Elon Musk's automaker and China's EV upstarts were pushed him to overhaul the company.

The Detroit executive said Ford's Mustang Mach-E had around 1.6km more electrical wiring than the Tesla, adding extra weight to the car and requiring a much bigger and more expensive battery.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

When Bots Edit Your Newspaper...

From today's Eric Zorn substack:

It will brighten your day to learn that page B-3 of the weekend print edition of the Wall Street Journal referred to Netflix executive Cindy Holland as “Cindy the Netherlands.”

The use of automated language police officers predates AI, and some of us are still amused to recall how a program installed on the OneNewsNowwebsite of the conservative American Family Association (now American Family News) changed the name of U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay to “Tyson Homosexual” in its coverage of the 2008 Olympic trials.

Friday, October 24, 2025

AI Datacenter Craze: Now This is How you Flip Property

These developers bought the CBOE building in downtown Chicago for $12 million in June 2024, with the idea of turning it into a datacenter.

They were smart, visionary, and secured more power from Com Ed by applying for a long term deal three years ago, when they were still negotiating for the building, and just before the current AI datacenter craze.

Since everyone wants data centers, it’s now a long process to secure power contracts, so they increased the value of the property.

Now, they flipped the building to another company that wants to build a datacenter for $40 million!

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/former-cboe-hq-lasalle-street-sold-data-center-firm?share-code=17613393242971665-19a1821474e&utm_id=gfta-ur-251024