All about the thought leading tech entrepreneurs who are paving the digital path of the future.
At 4 a.m., in a convenience store, an old man does not arrive. That was the prompt. Opus 5.5 wrote a driver buying Red Bull, a cat tripping the motion sensor, and a clerk counting lighters before closing the drawer. Sonnet 5.5 wrote an old man with a worn left cuff, a back turning left, and a streetlight going out. Both versions work. The difference is the ending. Opus puts the feeling inside an ordinary action. Sonnet puts it inside a designed image.
By Jin24 days ago in 01
At ten at night, you are halfway through a weekly report. You type: "Help me organize this week's work." The screen stops. The cursor blinks eight times before the first line appears. You ask about a story that just broke. It answers with confidence and gets the time and place wrong. You paste in a long contract. By the second half, it has forgotten clauses it quoted earlier. At the start of the month, you use your AI membership every day. By the end, the token bill looks like your phone bill.
At 23:57 Beijing time, a 52-meter stainless steel ship dropped out of the sky north of Hawaii. It flipped upright, lit one engine, and settled onto the Pacific. Three hours earlier, it had launched from Starbase in Texas. It was supposed to circle Earth six times. It flew less than two.
Apple released visionOS 27 on September 15, alongside iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and watchOS 27. The update spreads across AI, environments, Control Center, windows, Mac collaboration, recording, and developer tools. Here is what changes when you put the headset on.
On November 16, 2023, Signal President Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund published an article titled “Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive.” It did not announce a new feature or a version update. It laid out the bill.
By Jin25 days ago in 01
In September 2026, Xiaomi launched the 18 Pro series. The main selling point was a hardware privacy screen. It was supposed to set the phone apart from every other Android flagship. Once users got it in their hands, the feature became a liability. Lei Jun’s Weibo comment section filled with the same request: Can you release a version without the privacy screen?
By Jin26 days ago in 01
On July 20, 2026, Levent Alpöge posted a short message. No paper. No preprint. He wrote that the Jacobian conjecture is false. Then he thanked Claude Fable, the AI model that kept working during the World Cup final.
After the closing bell on September 24, 2026, Akamai Technologies disclosed that Anthropic had signed a seven-year cloud services agreement with a base commitment of $11.6 billion. The deal included an option for another $9 billion, bringing the potential total to roughly $20 billion. Akamai’s stock rose more than 17% in after-hours trading. The next day, it opened higher, then slid. By the close, it was down nearly 11% from its intraday high.
Matt von Hippel used to be a theoretical physicist. Now he writes about physics. In a blog post, he challenged AI companies. He wanted an AI to solve a frontier problem in scattering amplitudes using only the computing resources an academic has. He suggested two targets: N=8 supergravity to seven loops, or N=4 super Yang-Mills to nine loops.
By Jin27 days ago in 01
Bill Gates said in an interview clip on NBC’s Meet the Press that artificial intelligence is a “powerful enough” tool to “cause an event that kills one billion people.” The program will air on the 27th. He said: “Never has there been any weapon that can compare to the threat formed by a malicious person using the latest AI tools.” He called for legislative regulation, arguing that self-regulation is not enough and that law enforcement and politicians must be involved in discussing what safeguards and oversight mechanisms should look like. “This must be a mandatory requirement,” he said.
A Mac mini in the TV Cabinet: One Machine, Four Jobs When I took the M5 Pro Mac mini out of the box, it was smaller than the photos suggested. I could hold it in one hand. Under a monitor stand, it nearly disappears. I put it on the second shelf of my TV cabinet with a router and an optical modem. That shelf was already full. Adding the Mac mini still left room.
If you read only the task, it sounds ordinary: “Calculate the six-particle nine-loop amplitude in planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.”
