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APPLE VS. OPENAI: HOW SIRI AI STACKS UP AGAINST THE NEW CHATGPT (4
MINUTE READ) [4]
Siri AI will instantly become the world's most widely distributed AI
chatbot when it is released in the fall in iOS 27. It excels at
answering questions about on-screen data, and it can control device
settings, send messages, and make phone calls, but ChatGPT has better conversational skills, advanced productivity features, and third-party integrations. This article compares the two chatbots to see how they
stack up.
SPACEX OUTLINES PLANS TO TAKE ON AT&T, VERIZON, AND T-MOBILE (6
MINUTE READ) [5]
SpaceX plans to compete directly with mobile phone carriers in the US
by complementing its satellite-based internet service with land-based infrastructure. The plan will require billions of dollars in
investment into physical infrastructure. AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
have already said they will not give SpaceX access to their networks
in a mobile virtual network operator capacity. They have formed a
venture that aims to make satellite capabilities more readily
available to mobile phone customers.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
A SPACEX ROCKET IS HEADED FOR A CRASH ON THE MOON (7 MINUTE READ) [6]
A discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket unintentionally crashed
into the Moon early this morning. The four-ton rocket stage will hit
the Moon at 5,400 miles per hour. It is unknown whether the flash from
the crash and the resulting plume of debris and dust will be
observable. Understanding the physics of such impacts could be crucial
for people living on the Moon in the future.
SAMSUNG REVEALS NEW 3D-MEMORY ROADMAP IN BID FOR AI TECH LEAD (2
MINUTE READ) [7]
Samsung's new memory system vertically stacks high-bandwidth memory
on top of AI accelerators. It delivers about eight times the
performance and more than 10 times the memory density of
next-generation HBM5. Samsung plans to ramp up production of HBM4 in
the second half of this year. It has yet to offer a definitive
timeline for HBM5 or this future technology.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
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TURN ONE GIANT AI-GENERATED PULL REQUEST TO A REVIEWABLE STACK (11
MINUTE READ) [9]
GitHub stacked pull requests give developers and their agents a
native way to decompose work that otherwise lands in a giant pull
request. It turns pull requests into a chain of small, focused, and independently reviewable layers, each scoped to a single concern. This
post explains how to use stacked pull requests to simplify reviews.
HOW CLOUDFLARE ENFORCES ENGINEERING STANDARDS USING AI (9 MINUTE
READ) [10]
Cloudflare Codex is a shared source of engineering guidance built for
people and agents. It is a governed set of engineering standards that
agents can retrieve and apply at the point of work. The guidance
informs code review, technical design review, incident report review,
and many other use cases. This post explains why Cloudflare built
Codex and how it supports the engineering lifecycle.
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MISCELLANEOUS
HUAWEI'S TOP SCIENTIST WARNS OF CHIP LIMIT NVIDIA WILL SOON FACE (4
MINUTE READ) [11]
Huawei's top semiconductor scientist, Liao Heng, recently appeared on
a four-hour-long interview where he discussed the best path forward in
chip design, addressed some of the hardships Huawei faced when US
sanctions cut it off from global chipmaking suppliers, and lauded
Huawei's novel Tau Scaling Law approach. The appearance was a signal
of confidence from the company. Huawei's Tau Scaling Law proposes
focusing on improving transmission speeds between parts in a computer
system. The company is set to soon unveil its first smartphone chip
designed under that framework.
THE END OF THE AGE OF HEROES (18 MINUTE READ) [12]
We already employ mathematicians because we think human understanding
of math, even without industrial applications, is inherently
worthwhile. This isn't likely to change in the age of AI. Human
understanding of mathematics will still be valuable. The technology
will also allow humans to come up with much harder problems to solve.
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MICROSOFT TELLS ENGINEERS ‘TOKENMAXXING IS NOT WHAT WE ARE
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Microsoft has introduced new limits to how much its engineers can
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SpaceX plans to launch gigabit V3 satellites into operational orbit
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