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2 minute read Three engineers spoke up, and now they’re under the microscope So, 3 engineers from Amazon testified in early June before a Seattle City Council subcommittees, backing tighter rules on AI data centers. They even opened their remarks by pointing out they were legally protected from retaliation. Well, turns out investigations by their … Read more
3 minute read A goodbye nobody framed as the bigger story On June 8, Tim Cook walked onto the stage at Apple Park for WWDC and a lot of people missed the part that actually matters. This was his final keynote as CEO. He hands the company to John Ternus on September 1 and slides … Read more
2 minute read The buzzword that paid your salary is now a dirty word There was a stretch where burning AI tokens like there was no tomorrow was basically the job. It even got a name, “tokenmaxxing.” IT was pretty much a push to torch as many tokens as humanly possible. Climb that leaderboard, look … Read more
2 minute read Somewhere between ChatGPT writing your emails and AI generating your coworker’s PowerPoint slides, something quietly broke in the global chip supply chain. The price of everything in your home is going up because of it, and if you want to know what’s already gone up, why it’s happening, and whether there’s any … Read more
2 minute read Every day, millions of people Google their symptoms and take whatever pops up as “it must be right”. Totally normal human behavior and a horribly bad idea.. A Guardian investigation earlier this year caught Google’s AI Overviews, those convenient little AI answer boxes perched a the top of your search results, handing … Read more