https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/buildiing-c-compiiler Why this AI breakthrough is a massive productivity booster for devs, not a replacement. If you’ve been online this week, you’ve probably seen the headlines: Anthropic’s new Opus 4.6...
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/investing/stocks/salesforce-stock-gets-a-brutal-reality-check-amid-software-slump The company that mocked Oracle is now worth less than most leading AI startups. Who’s laughing now? A few years ago, Salesforce was the cloud darling that mocked Oracle...
Google needed this deal far more than Apple. By embedding Gemini into 1.5 billion iPhones, Google secured its relevance as traditional search faces obsolescence in the AI era.
In July 2025, the United States passed three landmark pieces of legislation that together attempt to define the future of digital finance: the GENIUS Act, the CLARITY Act, adn the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State...
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral Mistral has unveiled Voxtral, an exciting new AI audio model that positions itself as a strong open-source competitor to Whisper, the reigning champion of speech recognition. With claims of...
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/ It’s still too early to declare a winner in the AI arms race, but one thing is clear: the competition is accelerating, and OpenAI may struggle to maintain its...
https://www.ted.com/talks/audra_a_diptee_the_records_the_british_empire_didn_t_want_you_to_see In his thought-provoking book Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores the concept of historical records being erased as a means of political change. This phenomenon is not new; throughout history,...
Starting to write my WWDC25 wishlist #WWDC25 Wishlist: Can Apple fix m4b import into Books app? ePub works fine and can sync across to all devices with iCloud, but not...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33777https://futurism.com/time-workers-save-ai-jobs A research working paper pointing to LLM not having a big impact. And not improving salary even if it helped with productivity of workers. It’s just 2 years in...
https://bgr.com/tech/17-insane-veo-3-ai-videos-thatll-stop-you-from-trusting-anything-you-see-online/
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony Jony Ive made a lot of money since leaving Apple, more than what he could have made at Apple. $6.5B is a great deal for him, the new entity...
https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Cool project to play around with. Still haven’t found any good natural voice based computing system. Siri and others are just for small tasks around the house. But to...
In Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as in several of his recent interviews, he repeatedly emphasizes that money is one of the greatest stories humanity has ever invented. While it...
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/04/project-liberty-bid-to-buy-tik-tok-protect-user-rights/ It’s very hard to tell who has the upper hand on this. Did TikTok actively seek the extension? Or US avoiding a Gen Z revolt? Sure, 170m users in...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html Google is still very much an advertising company, only around 20% by revenue from non-ads related business. They are good with indexing data. Should you really trust them with...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-06/apple-s-three-year-modem-road-map-company-plans-to-beat-qualcomm-by-2027https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/apples-c1-modem-in-the-iphone-16e-is-proof-that-we-dont-need-qualcomm-for-5ghttps://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-reveals-first-custom-modem-chip-shifting-away-qualcomm-2025-02-19/ Apple isn’t the first one to make their own 5G modems, in fact they are late to the game. Samsung and Huawei both have their own modem chips. Other...
https://decrypt.co/303263/former-sec-chair-gary-gensler-to-go-back-to-school-to-teach-ai Sure, he had the power to slow down crypto adoption at the SEC. But ultimately he failed. When he “lost” to BlackRock and others for the crypto ETFs applications,...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27zwp7jpxo Not saying that BBC shouldn’t care about the AI summary showing false “information”. In the ideal world, we want all automated summaries to be accurate too, to take it...
https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost Since the launch of GPT-3 in November 2021, the cost of LLM inference has plummeted by a factor of 1,000, with predictions suggesting a continued decrease of approximately 10x...
You probably don’t need to know how the maths behind AI works, but it is a good idea to know that current “generation” (or buzz) of AI is mainly based...
https://medium.com/@eplt/how-to-upgrade-to-ios-15-from-betas-or-rc-version-3054cb07e561 Reminder, if you have been using iOS 18 beta, it’s time to switch off the Beta update toggle before the GM version. Usually, GM will be the final released...
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/apple-says-its-ai-models-were-trained-on-googles-custom-chips-.html Another reminder that Nvidia is not the only player for AI chips even if they are the best. A little surprised that Apple didn’t have their M2 Ultra farm...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-says-whatsapp-has-100-million-daily-active-users-in-the-u-s/ When many countries can say that their default chat app is Whatsapp, that’s not true in America. Very odd.
Nvidia has been performing exceptionally well in recent times. Over the past 20 months, the increased demand for AI compute power from chatbots (such as ChatGPT) and Generative AI for...
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3266093/elon-musk-warns-he-will-ban-apple-devices-his-companies-if-openai-integrated-operating-system-level https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/28/sorry-elon-grok-is-not-open-source-ai-heres-why-according-to-the-creator-of-the-definition Will be interesting to see how Elon will ban his staff from using Apple products. Oh, Windows is also OpenAI linked too. Let’s do just Linux. Or will...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/openai-gpt4o-siri-iphone/678371/ It is funny to see how tech media seems to think Apple is totally out of the AI game. “OpenAI just killed Siri”? As if Apple will just give...
#WWDC24 Wishlist: Will Apple ever give us better access to HeathKit in Shortcuts. For example, to check when was the last time I took a particular pill and set reminders...
Every year, around May or so, I write up my wish list for the upcoming WWDC. Been doing it for a few years. Used to tweet them out, but as...
https://finbold.com/us-economist-explains-why-bitcoin-is-a-failure/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fcryptocurrency Peter Schiff’s point about “$128 and it takes a half hour to process” is just silly. How much does it cost to mine gold and how long does it...
