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“In the old days, many decisions were simply based on some mixture of experience and intuition. Experts were ordained because of their decades of individual trial-and-error experience.” — Ian Ayres, Super…
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/alphabet-resets-the-bar-for-ai-infrastructure-spending.html Google is planning to spend between $175 billion and $185 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, with the vast majority going toward AI infrastructure. For context, Meta expects to…
https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/big-four-firm-says-crypto-has-crossed-an-irreversible-pointhttps://www.pwc.de/de/unterlagen/pwc-global-crypto-regulation-report-2026.pdf The Biden administration opposed cryptocurrency. Yet in January 2024, the SEC approved the first spot Bitcoin ETFs, and within months, Ethereum ETFs followed. This paradox reveals something deeper: institutional…
https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-crease-less-foldable-oled-panel-showcased-z-fold-8/ Crease-less foldable OLED panel demoed at CES 2026. Will it be good enough for Apple to use this? Starting at $1599 or more? iOS + iPadOS merged back again?
<!– wp:paragraph –> <p><a href="https://macdown.app”>https://macdown.app</a></p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> <!– wp:paragraph –> <p>Tried out a few markdown editor on macOS. MarkEdit, not bad, but no split view built-in. MarkText, 300MB app…
https://exolabs.nethttps://github.com/exo-explore/exohttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5 If you have about 40-50k USD for 4 Mac Studio with 512GB RAM each, you can run your full DeekSeek at 32.5 t/s. Probably the cheapest way to do…
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/google-gemini-vs-chatgpt-cloudflare-ai-b2881240.htmlhttps://x.com/Similarweb/status/1942838749588775302 Gemini is growing fast. Back to the “Just Google It” days soon. Now waiting for Meta to find a way to make AI relevant or useful in social. Same…
https://finbold.com/over-22-million-cryptocurrencies-were-created-in-2025/https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/number-of-cryptocurrencies-tracked Just crazy. Thanks to AI, no/vibe coding?
I stopped using the Perplexity app on macOS. It lacks many obvious features like downloading assets and deleting Recent searches directly from the list view, etc. Switched over to use…
LLMs conquer coding due to their deep understanding of code’s structure. Their massive training data and pattern recognition enable efficient code generation, debugging, and understanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EYKqUsPfghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u-DXVADyhchttp://yann.lecun.com/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-0058b13chttps://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/hugging-face-ceo-says-were-in-an-llm-bubble-not-an-ai-bubble/ Yan LeCun been saying this many times since ChatGPT, LLMs can’t get us to AGI. It’s not just about him leaving Meta, or Mark Zuckerberg getting a 28 year…
https://github.com/Anze/KeyCluCask A neat little app to list all the keyboard shortcuts on your Mac. Force yourself to learn these to speed up your own workflow. It’s always much quicker to…