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I used to buy into the generic developer hype: "gRPC is 10x faster than HTTP, it just has some configuration overhead." While technically true on paper, running a comprehensive stress test on my own system revealed a much more pragmatic reality. When building my Architecture-Boilerplate `headsntails` (Golang-based infrastructure
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One thing about rapid AI development that has stood out to me over the years is how little I care, or better put, pay attention to AI capabilities outside my workflow or interest areas. I raged and raged against the dying of the light when I read ghost stories about
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Introduction The discussion around AI is often dominated by two extremes. One side believes AI has arrived and that software engineering is finished. The other believes AI has arrived, and learning software engineering is no longer necessary. In my opinion, both perspectives are flawed. Before discussing the extremes, it is
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Apple spent years insisting the Mac would never get a touchscreen. That is about to change. The company is planning an overhaul of its entire Mac line, and the most striking new model is a MacBook you can prod with a finger. The refresh spans this autumn and next year,
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Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he is right, or just
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Memory chips are the oil of the AI boom, and right now they are hard to get. So when Elon Musk used Tesla’s quarterly call to publicly thank Micron, it was worth noticing. Suppliers rarely get shout-outs. Scarce ones do. Micron recently gave Tesla a “significant allocation” of memory
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TL;DR Ford and Geely announced a JV at Ford’s Valencia plant. Ford 66%, Geely 34%. Four models from 2028 including Ford and Geely EVs. Operations start H1 2027. Ford and Geely announced a manufacturing joint venture on Thursday that will produce electric vehicles at Ford’s plant in
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The Nvidia chip at the centre of America’s export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval Postgraduate School has stood up a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer, the first in the US military, Nextgov reported. The machine runs on Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra generation,
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The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaign. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said Meta “has always believed in giving people
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Google is losing a race it once led, and the problem may be its own people. Six current and former DeepMind employees told Axios that low morale is slowing the lab’s model releases, Axios reported. The immediate symptom is Gemini 3.5 Pro. Google’s most powerful model is
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AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall run by Digital
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TL;DR Jensen and Lori Huang donated $75M to Vanderbilt University for a new art, architecture and design college in San Francisco. It is Huang’s largest university gift. Opens 2027. Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of
