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TSMC Risk

If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.

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The AI Industry Is Lying to You

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Claude Corps

Claude Corps is a national fellowship for early-career people passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.

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M5Stack Launches PaperMono

M5Stack today launches PaperMono, a compact ESP32-S3-based E-Ink development terminal designed for low-power information display, interaction, and connected IoT projects. PaperMono is now available through the M5Stack Store. Product Value Featuring a 3.97-inch 4-level grayscale E-Ink display, touch input, integrated…

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AI, Tools and Transformation

It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t

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Margin Call

Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.

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Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

I have a system with c servers, each of which can only handle a single concurrent request, and has no internal queuing. The servers sit behind a load balancer, which contains an infinite queue. An unlimited number of clients offer c * 0.8 requests per second to the load balancer on average. In other words, we increase…