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  • Siri AI 📱, SpaceX internet 🛰️, AI code review 👨‍💻

    From TLDR@VERT to All on Wed Aug 5 10:35:09 2026
    Siri AI will instantly become the world's most widely distributed AI
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    BIG TECH & STARTUPS

    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.

    🚀

    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.

    🎁

    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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    MOST TECH REVOLUTIONS MADE WORK WORSE FOR EMPLOYEES. AI COULD BE THE
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    Experts estimate that AI will give knowledge workers back about 30%
    of their day by 2030.

    MICROSOFT TELLS ENGINEERS ‘TOKENMAXXING IS NOT WHAT WE ARE
    OPTIMIZING FOR' (3 MINUTE READ) [16]

    Microsoft has introduced new limits to how much its engineers can
    spend on AI tools at work.

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    A breakdown of the data that Codex sends.

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    STARLINK HITS 12 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS, V3 SATELLITES HEADED TO
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    SpaceX plans to launch gigabit V3 satellites into operational orbit
    during the next Starship test flight.

    OPENAI CALLS APPLE'S TRADE-SECRET SUIT ‘CARELESS' AND ‘ODDLY
    PERSONAL' (6 MINUTE READ) [20]

    OpenAI says that Apple was sloppy about securing files after
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    from Apple were involved in theft.

    BENDING SPOONS TO BUY AIRTABLE FOR $1.28B (2 MINUTE READ) [21]

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