Big Tech & Startups

Apple vs. OpenAI: How Siri AI Stacks Up Against the New ChatGPT (4 minute read)

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)

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)

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)

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

Computer beats Claude for work AI: 48% more accurate, 4.4x less token burn (Sponsor)

Your team doesn't start every task by relearning the entire business - but that's how tools like Claude Cowork operate. Computer, by DevRev creates one shared memory across your whole team: what one person learns, everyone can use. Burn less tokens, get better results (benchmark-proven). Download Computer for free

Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack (11 minute read)

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)

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)

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)

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 exception (7 minute read)

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)

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What Codex Actually Sends to the Model (10 minute read)

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Starlink Hits 12 Million Subscribers, V3 Satellites Headed to Operational Orbit (2 minute read)

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)

OpenAI says that Apple was sloppy about securing files after employees left and has denied allegations that the employees it hired from Apple were involved in theft.

Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B (2 minute read)

Bending Spoons typically acquires companies that are trading at a decent discount to their private valuations, trims the staff, streamlines products, and tries to make them run profitably.

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