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Daron Acemoglu, the 2024 Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, together with David Autor and Simon Johnson, published an NBER working paper in February 2026 titled Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence . The paper opens with a definition: pro-worker technology expands workers’ capabilities and makes their skills and expertise more valuable. The opposite is technology that improves efficiency by making machines run faster or cheaper.
By Jin13 days ago in 01
A misunderstood judgment In September 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was asked at the All-In Summit when China would finish advanced lithography tools. He said 2030. He added that once the technology matures, China can manufacture at scale, and domestic tools will enter local fabs.
One August evening, I asked ChatGPT to organize meeting minutes. The body came back clean. The title did not. It read: "Explain Sisyphus's Happiness Entertainment Manager." The meeting was about quarterly budgets. No Sisyphus. No happiness. No entertainment.
By Jin15 days ago in 01
Apple’s next 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro will arrive before the end of November. It will be the first MacBook with a touchscreen, the first with a Tandem OLED display, and the first in years to drop a noticeable amount of weight. It will also ship with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips that already exist, skip the M6 Pro and M6 Max entirely, and push the OLED model toward a $2,999 starting price. The machine is a bridge built because the chip roadmap left a hole.
On September 8, 2026, Meta released Muse. Two weeks later, it passed ChatGPT to become the No. 1 free app on the U.S. App Store. Meta’s stock rose 11.43% that day. Market cap added more than $190 billion.
Suppose we return to 1978. ARPANET was still young, and TCP/IP had not become the standard that would reshape computing. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn sat at a table covered with scratch paper, preparing to draw the foundation of the future Internet.
On October 7, 2026, OpenAI published 722 mathematical manuscripts in a single GitHub repository. The papers cover 372 result families and reach into theoretical computer science, number theory, geometry, and mathematical physics. An unreleased internal model produced them. OpenAI gave the model about 4,000 problems. The average result used roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute.
By Jin16 days ago in 01
Firmware lives between chips and software, and it does the jobs neither side can handle alone. Press the power button. The CPU resets. Registers clear to zero. The program counter points to a fixed address. No Windows, no Linux, no browser, no app. A piece of code burned into SPI Flash or ROM runs first.
On October 1, 2026, the Financial Times reported that Tencent signed its largest overseas compute lease with Oracle. The deal covers multiple Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia. Tencent gets access to about 100,000 advanced AI chips. The transaction is valued at about $7 billion. The term is five years. Tencent paid about 30% upfront. Neither Tencent nor Oracle responded to requests for comment. Based on $7 billion, the upfront payment is about $2.1 billion. Tencent is renting the chips, not buying them.
By Jin17 days ago in 01
On a Thursday evening in April 2026, in a private dining room in San Francisco, Christopher Olah set down a remote control and waited.
Some people say search is getting worse. For some people, it is. If you read line by line, if you treat the first page of results as a map of reality, if you expect the answer box to answer you, then the internet has become a swamp with a few solid stones in it. But this experience is not universal. Many people who search actively find more than they used to. They change keywords. They open primary sources. They use search operators. They read methods sections. They ask an LLM to generate leads, not conclusions.
By Jin18 days ago in 01
I The meeting room door closed. Michael still held the thirty-page industry report he had generated with AI the night before. Charts, logic, clean formatting. Forty minutes of work. It used to take two days.
By Jin19 days ago in 01
