Sean O’Brien

Why AI Labs Are Starting to Look Like Sports Teams With compute more abundant, talent is the new bottleneck in AI. Star players are signing pay packages that resemble those of professional athletes.

Great read on the current state of the AI industry www.sequoiacap.com/article/why-...

Virginia Lieutenant Governor race would have been a great opportunity to test ranked choice voting IMO

Happy Father’s Day to the Red Sox daddy - the GMs of the NL West.

Apple’s like, "Today, we’re excited to bring some of the most exciting features of Google Voice and WhatsApp to the iPhone.”

Honored to have attended the installation of His Eminence, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, today at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Paging Dr. Drew.

Great to be at the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot (NAIRR) pilot annual meeting this morning kicked off by my friend and colleague Ana Hunsinger.

UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data Bid to tap customers’ accounts could weaken security for iPhone users all over the world

I've been fan at times of UK's tech policy including some of the CMA actions. This is a massive government overreach to demand unencrypted access to all global users files and content

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.

#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Academic researchers find a way to train an AI reasoning model for less than $50 A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products such as ChatGPT. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing their efforts to inexpensively train chatbots and other AI reasoning models.

Researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for ~$50

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

C.I.A.’s Chatbot Stands In for World Leaders The spy agency is trying to give its teams better tools and make it easier for the private sector to develop technology for their secretive work.

Understanding global leaders is one of the CIA’s most important jobs. Analysts comb through intelligence collected by spies and publicly available information to create profiles of leaders that can predict behaviors. A chatbot powered by A.I. now helps do that work.

I haven't dug too far into the details yet, but I LOVE the idea of a pay-as-you-go model for a Chatbot. More thoughts later.

Internet2 Kicks Off 2025 with a Major Cloud Scorecard Update -- Campus Technology The latest release on Internet2's Cloud Scorecard Finder website previews new features that include dynamic selection criteria and options to explore multiple solutions side-by-side. More updates are ...

We talked to Internet2 Associate VP Sean O'Brien and Ball State University VP for IT and CIO Loren Malm about the latest Internet2 Cloud Scorecard release and the development efforts behind it: campustechnology.com/Articles/202...

Facebook has already become a pretty useless app for me filled with fake AI generated articles. Just today I’ve seen articles that the Jets have hired Mike Vrabel and Rex Ryan. Neither of which is true or likely to happen.

Facebook has already become a pretty useless app for me filled with fake AI generated articles. Just today I’ve seen articles that the Jets have hired Mike Vrabel and Rex Ryan. Neither of which is true or likely to happen.

Facebook has already become a pretty useless app for me filled with fake AI generated articles. Just today I’ve seen articles that the Jets have hired Mike Vrabel and Rex Ryan. Neither of which is true or likely to happen.

Stanford's new AI research tool helps users generate comprehensive, research-backed articles by scanning multiple sources

Ushering in 2025 with a crazy thunderstorm in the nation's capital somehow seems fitting

Thanks to @quinnypig.com and Siri for a little Sunday late afternoon humor.

Chief Information Officer - UMW, Virginia, United States Title: Chief Information Officer VP Area: Chief of Staff - UMW Department: Information Technology Campus Location: Main Campus Advertised Range: $160,000-$210,000, commensurate with experience Abo...

Come join us at UMW — if you have any questions about the position or the school, please reach out to me. Please share!

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Starting shortly: Come join us how Google Gemini, facilitated by the NET+ GWE, empowers institutions to leverage AI for their students, faculty, and staff. Great campus stories included. events.internet2.edu/ereg/index.p...

I continue to see the need for cost-effective and equitable access to GenAI tools across higher ed. I’m hosting a webinar next week exploring how Google Gemini, facilitated by the NET+ GWE, empowers institutions to leverage AI for their students, faculty, and staff. Hope to see you there. t.ly/NFoTn

TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123 miles in gas-powered car a year, data shows

Due to the sheer amount of content on the platform, as well as longer average scroll times, TikTok users have the highest yearly emissions compared to other social media platforms. The reason behind this lies in the unique addictiveness of TikTok’s platform.

Colleges Must Revise Millions of Web Pages. It Will Be ‘Painful.’ The work also entails a major culture shift — all on deadline.

Colleges nationwide are on deadline to meet updated standards for web accessibility. Experts say the work is long overdue — and will ‘be painful’. chroni.cl/4fc1tNd

This is a great overview 👇

Trump considers naming an ‘AI czar’ Incoming president Donald Trump is considering naming an “AI czar” in the White House, Axios reports. Should Trump appoint such a policy person, they’d be charged with helping to coordinate federal regulation and governmental use of AI. Importantly, an AI…

Trump considers naming an ‘AI czar’

Here's a rarity for being in your mid (late?) 30s. Flying on a plane that's older than me.

Incredible experience attending and presenting at the Notre Dame AI Forum last week! Curious about how the R&E community is collaborating? Explore the latest initiatives and resources here: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=303105019#content/view/303105019