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Software Will Be Free
Software Will Be Free
Software Will Be Free. So Why Are Banks and Hospitals Still Paying Like It’s 1999? The cost of building intelligent…
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Made a new JD for a junior engineer from UIUC (where I went)... what do you all think?
Made a new JD for a junior engineer from UIUC (where I went)... what do you all think?
Job Title: Junior Software Engineer – Applied AI, Frontier Systems Location: Hybrid – Washington, D.C or NYC.
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The FDIC Finally Discovers Fire: A Crypto Awakening Three Years (or more) Too Late
The FDIC Finally Discovers Fire: A Crypto Awakening Three Years (or more) Too Late
Or: How I Spent a Year Trying to Explain Bitcoin to People Who Still Use Fax Machines Update for all my new…
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Unlocking AI's Potential in the Arts: A Call for Collaboration & Pragmatic Leadership
Unlocking AI's Potential in the Arts: A Call for Collaboration & Pragmatic Leadership
The path of rejecting new technologies outright and blindly lashing out against every potential risk rarely ends well…
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More Than Techies: AI's Benefits for Real People
More Than Techies: AI's Benefits for Real People
Us #AI practitioners need to get out of our bubble. We’re energized by the day-to-day challenges of making AI work…
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Last week, the Fed quietly released a report detailing what the next decade of AI regulation in banking will look like. It revealed that banks now…
Last week, the Fed quietly released a report detailing what the next decade of AI regulation in banking will look like. It revealed that banks now…
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What do we think of this potential quarterly bank report summary? Data is accurate but I’m just just how this looks - let me know! Summary: The…
What do we think of this potential quarterly bank report summary? Data is accurate but I’m just just how this looks - let me know! Summary: The…
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Please share the message with your supply chain partners!
Please share the message with your supply chain partners!
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Short commentary on the new US National Security Strategy
Sultan's Substack
See publicationFrom remarks provided to the National Security Institute
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Has the Battle for Quantum Supremacy Already Been Lost? (2025 Update)
Sultan's Substack
See publicationUpdate #3 (over an 8 year period!) on the state of quantum and why the crypto community should care
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How I Use AI to Keep Up With AI: Real Work, Real Value
Sultan's Substack
See publicationAnd how easy it is to do it while you're on a conference call
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The FDIC Finally Discovers Fire: A Crypto Awakening Three Years (or more) Too Late
Sultan's Substack
See publicationOr: How I Spent a Year Trying to Explain Bitcoin to People Who Still Use Fax Machines
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OpenAI's Record-Breaking Fundraising: Navigating Valuation, Market Dynamics, and Future Growth
Sultan's Substack
See publicationDerived from my talking points for the media
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AI Will Mean Cheaper Food
The Wall Street Journal
See publicationOp-ed on how artificial intelligence will transform agriculture and reduce food costs for consumers.
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I Quit as FDIC Innovation Chief Because of Regulators' Technophobia
Bloomberg Opinion
See publicationOp-ed explaining my decision to resign as FDIC's first Chief Innovation Officer due to regulatory resistance to technological innovation in banking.
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A Pandemic Enters Its Fourth Decade : The Infection Of Bad Code
Forbes
See publicationI read a recent Atlantic article about the "coming" software pandemic with some surprise — because the pandemic isn’t coming, it’s already here. Bad code has existed as long as there has been code, and we have been suffering the pandemic of bad code at scale for decades.
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Running Scared – Why the Bank of the Future Is Not a Bank
Let's Talk Payments
See publicationAbout 10 years from now, are we going to look back and realize that banks had already missed the massive market change and were already on their way out?
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Data is Holding Back AI
The Financial Revolutionist
See publicationI remember grumbling, “Good lord this is a waste of time,” in 1992 while I was working on an AI application for lip-reading. The grumble escaped my lips because I felt like I was spending half my time inputting data cleanly into the video processing neural network. Bouncing from a video capture device to a DEC workstation to a Convex Supercomputer to a Cray, I felt like I had been thrown into a caldron of Chinese water torture.
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FBI Citizen's Academy
Federal Bureau of Investigations
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English
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Five banks printed records today and the press called it “Super Tuesday.” The other ~4,256 FDIC-insured banks weren’t invited. “The banking sector is…
Five banks printed records today and the press called it “Super Tuesday.” The other ~4,256 FDIC-insured banks weren’t invited. “The banking sector is…
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Really enjoyed this discussion with Boris Chumak and Frank Brown at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Critical Minerals Summit. ReElement Technologies +…
Really enjoyed this discussion with Boris Chumak and Frank Brown at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Critical Minerals Summit. ReElement Technologies +…
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The biggest players in AI are finally talking about sovereignty… but some of the pieces are still missing. Palantir and Nvidia’s partnership…
The biggest players in AI are finally talking about sovereignty… but some of the pieces are still missing. Palantir and Nvidia’s partnership…
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The Fed Just Told You the Price of the Light Touch. Pay It Now - how Bowman's recent comments are the cookbook no one is reading
The Fed Just Told You the Price of the Light Touch. Pay It Now - how Bowman's recent comments are the cookbook no one is reading
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The recent Palantir and Nvidia partnership has been declared the start of the AI sovereignty wars. But as the market loses sight of what true…
The recent Palantir and Nvidia partnership has been declared the start of the AI sovereignty wars. But as the market loses sight of what true…
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Continuing on the recent Palantir Technologies & NVIDIA news here’s our view about how it’s a great step forward but doesn’t actually solve for…
Continuing on the recent Palantir Technologies & NVIDIA news here’s our view about how it’s a great step forward but doesn’t actually solve for…
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Most ‘sovereign AI’ passes one test, gestures at a second, and quietly fails the third. That’s not sovereignty. It’s theater with better security…
Most ‘sovereign AI’ passes one test, gestures at a second, and quietly fails the third. That’s not sovereignty. It’s theater with better security…
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After years of inaction, the US government is finally competing in quantum. Their approach reveals that it’s time to ask new questions. 🔍 Nine…
After years of inaction, the US government is finally competing in quantum. Their approach reveals that it’s time to ask new questions. 🔍 Nine…
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I just posted the 9th year anniversary post on the battle for quantum supremacy has evolved - by the US becoming China (maybe), the metrics have…
I just posted the 9th year anniversary post on the battle for quantum supremacy has evolved - by the US becoming China (maybe), the metrics have…
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> Patent Pending MAVEN PRODIGY’s AI system is protected under pending U.S. patent applications. The patent applications cover novel architectures, including recursive self-reflective AI, autobiographical memory, valence-based affect, and meta-controller integration. Patent Pending US Patent Application Serial No. 19/326,732
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