Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Unsung Hero: Sophie Wilson Designed the Chip in Your Phone
In 1983, a woman in Cambridge designed an instruction set. 250 billion chips later, it powers every smartphone, every tablet, and every Apple Silicon Mac on Earth. Her name is Sophie Wilson.
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Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon. Then OpenAI Said Yes.
Dario Amodei drew a hard line against military use of Claude. Days later, OpenAI signed a classified defense deal. ChatGPT uninstalls spiked 295%. This is the moment the AI industry split in two.
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Meta Is Firing 15,000 Humans to Build Better Machines
Meta plans to cut 20% of its workforce to offset $135 billion in AI spending. The stock went up. The metaverse is dead. The machines won.
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OpenAI Shut Down Sora. It Cost $15 Million a Day to Run and Made $2.1 Million Total.
OpenAI killed its AI video generator after burning $15 million per day in compute costs against $2.1 million in total lifetime revenue. But the real story is not about Sora. It is about the entire AI industry running on subsidized magic.
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Walmart Tried AI Checkout Inside ChatGPT. It Converted 3x Worse Than Their Website.
Walmart put 200,000 products inside ChatGPT with instant checkout. The conversion rate was one-third of their regular website. The first real data point that agentic commerce is not ready.
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GitHub Will Train AI on Your Code Starting April 24. You Have to Opt Out.
Starting April 24, GitHub will use your Copilot interactions to train AI models. Free, Pro, and Pro+ users are enrolled by default. You have to actively opt out. Most people will not.
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OpenAI Raised $110 Billion. Read That Number Again.
Amazon put in $50 billion. NVIDIA put in $30 billion. SoftBank put in $30 billion. The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $840 billion. More than most countries. What could possibly justify this?
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ElevenLabs Hit $11 Billion in Three Years. Two Founders. Voice AI.
From a 2-person startup to an $11 billion valuation in roughly three years. ElevenLabs raised $500 million from Sequoia to build the future of synthetic voice. The speed is almost absurd.
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Unsung Hero: The Man Who Built the Invisible Machine That Compiles All Your Code
Chris Lattner's master's thesis became LLVM, the most widely used compiler backend on Earth. He then created Swift, MLIR, and is now building Mojo. Every time you compile code, his work is running underneath.
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Unsung Hero: The Professor Whose Free Lectures Trained a Generation of Database Engineers
Andy Pavlo runs CMU's database research group. His free YouTube lectures have trained more database engineers than most universities. His research influenced DuckDB, CockroachDB, and every modern analytical database.