Jeff Dean says we're not running out of data. The catch is in the filter.
Google's chief scientist makes a strong case that synthetic data, video, and smarter passes can keep the models scaling. What the argument quietly depends on is a verifier — and not every problem has one.
Artificial Intelligence
VIEW ALL →Jeff Dean says we're not running out of data. The catch is in the filter.
Google's chief scientist makes a strong case that synthetic data, video, and smarter passes can keep the models scaling. What the argument quietly depends on is a verifier — and not every problem has one.
How coding quietly became AI's killer app, and its fiercest battleground
Anthropic's confidential IPO at a reported $965B valuation was built on Claude Code, not the chatbot. Now Microsoft and Google are pivoting hard into coding models — and the real fight is over the tool you actually type into.
Apple's AI problem is not a Siri problem
At WWDC on June 8, Apple will reintroduce Siri and call it a comeback. The harder question is structural: can a company that ships once a year, and rents its best model from a rival, compete at a frontier that moves every week?
Hardware
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Intel returns to Taipei with a comeback to sell and a node it cannot yet fill
At Computex 2026, the x86 establishment answered an AI-PC era being redrawn by Arm and Nvidia. The pitch was confident. The manufacturing reality, as always, was the harder story.
A new era of PC, made on the same island as the old one
Nvidia and MediaTek will show an Arm laptop chip in Taipei this week and call it a break with the past. Follow where it is actually designed, fabricated and packaged, and it looks less like a new era than a deeper turn of the same dependency.
The node is not a number anymore
When TSMC says "1.6 nanometres," it is no longer describing a transistor. It is describing a system — power fed from the back, dies stitched together on a wafer, heat that has nowhere to go. Read the node alongside the machine, or you have not read it at all.
Policy
VIEW ALL →The vulnerability Microsoft fixed from an account it had already deleted
A retaliatory wave of Windows zero-days has put Microsoft's Security Response Center on the defensive — and reopened a decade-old question about who gets paid, who gets credited, and who gets called a criminal.
The breach that becomes training data
Your driver's license, your résumé, your voice: a documented chain runs from the thing you lost to the model that learned from it — and you are not allowed to know where it stops.
The rules that travel
A single clause of the EU AI Act binds anyone whose output reaches Europe — and because no one ships a separate chatbot per market, it is quietly becoming the world's labelling rule.
Science
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What SpaceX is really worth
The prospectus asks for $1.75 trillion and points at a rocket. Read the segments and the rocket is the loss leader — the company is an internet provider that happens to fly its own delivery trucks.
A power plant that has not worked yet
Commonwealth Fusion has applied to plug a 400-megawatt fusion plant into the grid. The reactor it depends on has not yet produced a single watt of net energy — and that is the whole story.
The moon base is a budget line
Starship V3 made a fiery splash in the Indian Ocean and Elon Musk called it epic. The number that matters is dollars per kilogram to the lunar south pole — and that number is still doing the heavy lifting NASA's renderings won't.
Business
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The memo says AI. The headcount says the rest.
Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its code. Meta says AI is why 8,000 people are leaving. Both are announcements. Only one of them costs the company something to make.
When three names are the market
The top ten stocks are now a record share of the S&P 500, and every passive fund that tracks it is an unhedged bet on the AI trade. The mechanism that carried it up has no brakes on the way down.
The layoff is the honest document
Companies are announcing record AI conviction and cutting staff the same week. The press release describes ambition. The WARN notice describes the trade-off ambition required. Only one of them is under oath.
Profiles
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The app that finds you a stand-in for court
Stumble Legal turns the lawyer's worst morning — double-booked, no cover — into a tap on a phone.
The Man Who Glued the Future Together
Douglas Yu spent thirty-one years inventing the way the world's chips are stacked, then retired. The trouble is the world stacked itself around him, and now it cannot quite let him leave.
The believer who stopped promising
Bob Mumgaard spent a decade telling the world fusion was almost here. Now the magnets are arriving on schedule, and the most careful thing he says is the date he won't give you.
