Amazon thinks it cracked the code. Specifically, a technical knot in data center architecture. They say it’s the key to the future.
Silicon Wars Get Dirty
Huawei isn’t giving up.
With Moore’s Law dying a slow, expensive death, the Chinese giant is piv hard. They are adapting to a new reality where physics, not just miniaturization, drives innovation.
Is this the end of US dominance? Maybe. Maybe not. But Huawei just threw down the gauntlet. And their ‘Chip Queen’ is leading the charge. It gets messy when one country’s tech evolution directly complicates another’s strategic advantage.
Bedfellows? Anthropic and SpaceX
Anthropic is bedfellows with SpaceX.
Yes. The safety-focused AI lab signed a deal. They need computing power. Elon Musk’s xAI has it.
It feels weird. Almost absurd. Two players known for different approaches to AGI safety now intertwined. The race gets stranger by the week.
Skyward Ambition
Welcome to the satellite gold rush.
San Francisco startups are launching hardware faster than they can secure funding. Breakthroughs in data collection and comms are fueling it. A generation is betting everything on orbit.
The sky isn’t the limit anymore; it’s the infrastructure layer.
Meanwhile, the Gulf region is sweating over cables. Undersea infrastructure is failing to keep pace with the AI boom. Hyperscalers are forcing a rethink. When the internet stops flowing, money stops too.
Human-Centric AI (Mostly)
Mira Murati wants humans in the loop.
The former OpenAI CTO, now heading Thinking Machines Lab, rejects the “robots replace us all” narrative. She wants collaboration. Not automation for automation’s sake.
Sounds nice. Will it work? Time will tell.
Over in Russia, Rassvet is taking its first breaths. Sixteen satellites. Aims for national coverage by 2030 to rival Starlink.
Easy? No. Geopolitics makes orbital mechanics look simple.
OpenAI Shuffles Decks
Greg Brockman is back. Officially in charge of products.
OpenAI reorganizes again. ChatGPT and Codex need unification. One core experience. It’s a shuffle of the same players, but with higher stakes.
Health Check
Diabetes detection is stuck. Blood glucose is useful. Sure. But for some populations? It’s blind. New tools are coming, hopefully soon enough.
Then there’s cholesterol.
Doctors keep testing “bad” cholesterol. But the metrics are outdated. A better way to measure risk exists. So why the lag? Old habits. Bureaucracy. Maybe both.
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind’s CEO, has thoughts on AI jobs.
He thinks mass layoffs are dumb.
His pitch: use productivity gains to do more, not fire people. It makes economic sense. It also contradicts almost every other corporate move in tech right now.
The Last Mile
Your modem and router.
The dynamic duo of your internet experience. Mistake one for the other? Good luck getting online.
We obsess over global networks. We forget the plastic boxes blinking on our shelves. They matter too.
