There's this deep mystery there, which is: but what actually is this thing? We have a very literal answer, but the literal answer doesn't seem to necessarily provide a moral answer.
Growing up doesn't stop at adulthood. Developmental psychologist Robert Kegan proposed that the way we make meaning keeps reorganizing itself throughout life. Each reorganization follows the same move: something you could only be becomes something you can see. What was subject becomes object, and a larger self forms around it.
The opportunity is to build what HFTs built for markets, but for the physical world: native-resolution data collection, representations that match the geometry of physical signals rather than forcing them through linguistic pipelines, and ultimately market infrastructure through which better physical intelligence becomes executable financial positions.
This is the real magic of Resident. Once you have it all set up, you just type: /create-app 'a tic-tac-toe game' and three seconds later, you've got it running on your device – WITHOUT having to flash new firmware or plug it in or even … do anything but wish it to be so.
The AI economy is bigger and faster than any technology wave before it, yet still small enough to be early. It's (just) covering the infrastructure bill. What happens next depends on how fast demand grows as prices fall and how much real intelligence each token delivers.
A remake of a Nintendo 64 game, Star Fox is an on-rails shooter, with tightly choreographed action and spectacular set-pieces. This more linear structure has let the game's designers craft what is perhaps the best-looking game yet for the Switch 2.
Building new high-voltage transmission lines and infrastructure to connect low-carbon energy to the grid in the 2030s was initially forecast by the energy system operator to cost £58bn. Updated forecasts from the National Energy System Operator (Neso) now recommend network investments of £89bn could be needed to deliver the government's clean power targets while meeting the country's rising demand for electricity, including from datacentres.
We are introducing and open sourcing LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE language model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and ~48 billion activated per token — a substantial step up from previous LongCat models, accompanied by several architectural improvements.
Its Rutherford engines are the first electric-pump-fed engine to power an orbital-class rocket. Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft. Although the rocket was designed to be expendable, Rocket Lab has recovered the first stage twice and is working towards the capability of reusing the booster.
It merges Rocket Lab's leading launch capabilities and satellite manufacturing with Iridium's global satellite communications network, spectrum, and 500-plus strong partner ecosystem to create a competitive, vertically-integrated space company that designs, builds, launches, and operates its own constellations, delivering critical communications capability to millions of users worldwide.
That means we would need to open a brand new geological waste site somewhere on the planet every four days for the next 25 years. Every site would need constant monitoring for decades to ensure the CO2 doesn't leak. Even if this could be done, it would cost tens of trillions of dollars.
At Lowther, water voles are now living alongside beavers for the first time in over 400 years. Beaver activity raises water levels and creates wetland habitats that complement water voles' needs.
Fuzzy compilers make weaker guarantees than traditional ones, but this trade-off enables a profound shift: from computation that requires humans to think like machines, to computation that allows machines to understand human intent.
LLMs are fuzzy compilers. I like this analogy. It points toward the profound shift that is happening in software. The thing about computers is that they can do anything you wish, so long as you specify your wish in exacting detail. However, LLMs relieve this constraint.
When applied to taste, practising discernment means to: Think critically about a cultural artefact you've been exposed to for the first time. Its context, meaning, intent etc. Engage in self-reflection about one's own existing tastes and preferences.
A pile of agents is not a company for the same reason a pile of smart people is not a company. A firm of agents needs roles, ownership, shared state, ledgers, escalation paths, standards, prices, and approvals.
For almost 2,000 years, the carbonized library of Herculaneum has kept a cruel bargain: its scrolls survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, but only by becoming too fragile to open. To read one was to destroy it. Hundreds of rolls have therefore remained sealed, their contents preserved yet unreachable. Today that changes.
Spending on apps such as Vinted surged by 200% in just a year, according to data released by AIB last week on its customers' spending. At the same time, there was a 9% drop in clothes shop sales, indicating that people are increasingly opting to shop secondhand.
Industrial Party ideology ends up being quite Darwinian. What matters most is the power that flows from industrial capacity. This contributes to what scholars refer to as the party's aesthetic. Fred Gao, a Beijing-based journalist who identifies with the Industrial Party and who briefly worked for Guancha, told me: These people view industrialization as the highest form of beauty. Building things from nothing—that's their romanticism.
Even Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer once publicly dismissed Chrome as a rounding error. But of course, Chrome went on to become the world's most widely used browser—far bigger than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. By 2012, it had already surpassed its rivals to become the world's most-used browser, helping cement Pichai's reputation inside Google and paving the way for his eventual rise to CEO.