More detail on today's victory: , the day before the 5th anniversary of the antitrust dispute.

When someone boots up an iPhone for the first time, not only should they be presented w/a menu of Siri/Apple Intelligence alternatives (OpenAI, Grok, Gemini, Claude, Llama, etc), the chosen model should have deep iOS API access to make calls, draft/send emails/adjust volume, etc.

Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action.

The is getting better by the minute. The chip cowboy Badass Craig Barrett speaks!! This is the old and badass Intel that everybody feared. Summary: - The U.S. needs a domestic, leading-edge logic manufacturer, and Intel is the only American company positioned to do it today. - TSMC and Samsung are unlikely to bring their most advanced manufacturing to the U.S. in the near term. - Major U.S. chip designers (e.g., Nvidia, Apple, Google) need a domestic second source for leading products to improve pricing leverage, stability, and security. - Intel lacks sufficient cash to build competitive leading-edge capacity and needs roughly $40B in new capital. - Government grants alone are unlikely to cover that gap, so a different funding approach is required. - Barrett proposes customer-funded recapitalization: about eight large customers invest ~$5B each for equity and guaranteed supply. - Intel must invest now to lead on next-gen process technologies (e.g., High-NA EUV, backside power) rather than wait for customer commitments. - A sizable tariff on imported state-of-the-art chips could catalyze domestic investment, akin to protections in steel and aluminum. - He rejects calls to split Intel, arguing coopetition is manageable and a breakup would waste time versus the urgent need for capital and commitments. - Success requires White House/Commerce support, immediate customer investments, and Intel’s board backing aggressive tech and capacity build-out now. Link👇🏻

Frosty tech is advancing at a precipitous rate, similar to AI.

Someone just asked Pixar cofounder Ed Catmull about AI. His answer (paraphrased): "AI will create lots of good things and lots of bad things... We don't know where it will go. But it's not going away. So artists need to engage with the technology." #siggraph

Every generation needs its programming practices critic. With Niklas Wirth and Edsger Dijkstra gone, UBM is carrying the torch.

We are about halfway through the life of the Universe as measured by how many times the atoms in our bodies will be part of an exploding star

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