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REVIEW OF IPHONE DUO: A NEW CHAPTER THAT REDEFINES A SMARTPHONE'S
PURPOSE (8 MINUTE READ) [6]
Apple's iPhone Duo is a miniature tablet that can be folded up into a
phone. Its main target audience is people who want to have a tablet
everywhere they go. Commuters and business travelers who spend a lot
of time on trains, buses, and planes will probably like the device.
Everyone else may feel frustrated with what is otherwise an average
smartphone.
JANE STREET AND RIVALS ARE NOW FIGHTING FOR AI POWER AS WELL AS PACE
(17 MINUTE READ) [7]
High-frequency traders are now racing for compute. They are investing
in the sector as it secures them access to greater processing capacity
and faster chips. These firms primarily profit from tiny price
differences as they move rapidly in and out of positions. As they
increasingly rely on machine learning, their success is directly tied
to their computing power. While the risks are significant, most
high-speed traders see few options if they want to avoid becoming
obsolete.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
US MILITARY GIVES ELON MUSK'S SPACEX ACCESS TO SENSITIVE TRACKING
DATA (7 MINUTE READ) [8]
SpaceX has been granted access to restricted space tracking data by
the US military. The access raises new national security questions as
well as questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting
to hand over traffic control in Earth's orbit to a donor. Elon Musk's
Doge program fired many of the federal government's space traffic
control staff in 2025, and the administration has twice attempted to financially gut the Traffic Coordination System for Space department.
The moves have been widely viewed in the industry as an attempt by
Musk to privatize space traffic control.
NEURAL CHIP DECODES INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BRAIN REGIONS (7 MINUTE
READ) [9]
Researchers have developed an implantable neural chip that tracks communication across brain regions. It can record brain activity and
extract biomarkers that describe the strength of brain waves and
synchrony between signals from different brain regions. These signals
can be decoded using a machine-learning algorithm to distinguish
between cognitive and emotional states. The capability to extract
brain-network biomarkers to trigger precisely timed stimulation has
many applications across next-generation neurotechnology.
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THE STATE OF CONTEXT ENGINEERING (21 MINUTE READ) [11]
Context engineering is hard in unique ways because AI models aren't
people. It helps to understand how models are built, optimized, and
trained. Their unique attributes and construction create a unique set
of failure modes to be reckoned with. This means context engineering
will forever be a challenge with AI, no matter how good it gets.
WE SHOULD BE MORE AMBITIOUS WITH THE SOFTWARE WE BUILD (37 MINUTE
READ) [12]
AI can now one-shot many projects, allowing almost anyone to create
software. However, it still struggles with many harder tasks. People
who say that everything just works or that software is solved aren't
working on the hard problems. They need to be more ambitious about the
software they're building as AI models become more capable.
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MISCELLANEOUS
THE FACTORY IN PHOENIX THAT COULD SAVE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING (28
MINUTE READ) [13]
TSMC Arizona's first plant has been producing chips for two years.
Its rate of output in Phoenix is comparable to that in Taiwan. TSMC
sends engineers to Arizona on contracts of up to three years, with
families moving from Taiwan to the site. Some of the families that
moved in the first wave now want to build lives in the US, as they
want to give their children a chance to integrate, for their kids'
education, or because they prefer the American lifestyle, and there
are legal pathways for doing so. This article looks at the impact the
factory had on Phoenix, the employees who moved to America to work
there, and the chip manufacturing industry in the US.
SALESFORCE – PART TWO (11 MINUTE READ) [14]
This post tells the story of what it was like at Salesforce after it
acquired Slack. The cultural gaps between the two companies were
evident. Slack had a tight-knit culture where humans would help each
other, whereas Salesforce was a much larger company with systems and
processes for things to get done. Slack's cognitive overhead was
nothing compared to the overbearing weight of the Salesforce monolith.
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Cap 0.6.1 is the first version that doesn't have a web browser inside
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THE RISE AND FALL OF JEV HYPE (20 MINUTE READ) [18]
The Jev hype cycle is a prime example of the manipulative marketing
that we are all too familiar with at this point.
OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC CUT THEIR LLM PRICES BY UP TO 80% WITHIN A FEW
MONTHS. WHY? (12 MINUTE READ) [19]
It's strange that OpenAI and Anthropic cut their primary revenue
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