Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. A follow-up to Jensen's New Math. On May 5th, while the tech press was busy looking elsewhere, NVIDIA quietly announced something that got a fraction of the attention it deserved. No leather jacket keynote. No packed auditorium. Just a press release, a startup nobody'd heard of, and a homebuilder. Three weeks later at Computex, the same guy who's been all over this blog said it out loud: "Many houses have home theatres, lawnmowers, dishwashers — I can totally imagine that someday there's an AI supercomputer in your house." He said it like a vision. A future thing. Something to aspire to. It wasn't a vision. It was a press release he'd already issued a month earlier. What Actually Happened in May The players: NVIDIA, California startup Span, and homebuilder PulteGroup. Span started as a smart electrical panel company. They make a connected breaker panel that lets homeowners monitor and manage circuits individually, optimize energy…
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