All posts tagged: AI

The market has doubts — alarm over ‘bubble land’

August 17, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

The AI boom: doubt has arrived for the first time Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-08-17. Translated from Swedish. After this spring’s stock market surge among tech companies, markets have started to doubt. Will AI deliver the economic explosion investors hoped for? Several influential voices are now expressing scepticism for the first time. “I think it is insane.” Barton Briggs, strategist at investment bank Morgan Stanley, was speaking about Cisco in April 2000. The networking giant […]

Apple compromises on its winning strategy

June 11, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

Apple compromises on privacy in its AI debut Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-06-11. Translated from Swedish. Apple’s AI debut revealed a crack in the facade of the tech giant. The desire to keep pace with the AI frenzy appears to be pushing the company to abandon the privacy-first strategy that made it so successful. It was the worst-kept secret in the tech world. On Monday evening Apple made its entrance into artificial intelligence — though […]

Nvidia’s big problem: things are going too well

May 23, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on May 23rd, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. As the world invests in AI, the money flows heavily into Nvidia’s pockets. The world’s hottest company is now approaching a point where expectations become very hard to live up to — and the drop if they fall short is enormous. Jensen Huang has the […]

Three challenges for an identity-crisis Roblox

May 12, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on May 12th, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Despite Roblox’s enormous success with its players, its journey on the stock market has been tough. The share has fallen 55 percent since its IPO in March 2021. If it cannot get profitability under control, the risk of game over increases. Plain speaking is rarely […]

Sweden hopelessly behind in the global AI race

April 15, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on April 15th, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Countries and regions are racing to stake their position in the explosive AI development. But when it comes to infrastructure, Sweden appears to have already given up. It looks like a circuit board in a desert — at least when you view the satellite images. […]

The strategy that gave the AI giant a head start

March 19, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on March 19th, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. A supremely confident Jensen Huang presented Nvidia’s plans to the world. The message was unmistakable: without Nvidia, there is no AI development. But on the horizon, competition is stirring from a troubling direction. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, walks onstage to bombastic orchestral music that […]

Embarrassing AI mistakes could knock out top executive

March 8, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This column was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on March 8th, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. It is one of the world’s largest and most influential tech companies. Despite this, Google’s AI launches are marked by embarrassing mistakes. Now questions are being raised if it’s time for its leader to step down. Fire. Described by many as the most important discovery in […]

Musk’s new path to power reeks of desperation

March 4, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on March 4th, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. OpenAI is being sued by co-founder Elon Musk. He claims to want to preserve the company’s original non-profit ambitions. But Musk has other reasons to want to slow down what has now become his competitor. The complexity of the case is revealed immediately in the […]

This is the cruel AI irony for tech workers

February 16, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on February 16th, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Tech giants are laying off thousands of employees even as they invest massively in AI. The irony is that the very tools they are building may be what makes those cuts permanent. In January 2023, Google announced it would lay off approximately 12,000 employees — […]

The stock market’s dependence on tech giants is at a record high

January 30, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on January 30th, 2024. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Ten trillion dollars in market cap is reporting its quarterly results this week — and just five tech companies account for all of it. The stock market’s dependence on the tech giants has never been greater. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote the now-famous […]