https://tek54.com/hardware/copper-smelting-chokepoint-ai-data-center-grid-asarco-hayden tek54en 2026-10-25T20:22:04.727Z The AI economy runs on copper. The furnace that makes it usable has been cold for six years. https://tek54.com/ai/block-dessa-full-duplex-speech-no-weights-benchmarks tek54en 2026-10-25T20:19:58.995Z Block says its new voice model learned to talk without ever reading. I can't check a word of it — and neither can you. https://tek54.com/policy/google-gmail-photos-personal-intelligence-ads-consent tek54en 2026-10-25T20:18:20.079Z Google didn't start reading your Gmail for ads. It moved the wall that kept it from happening. https://tek54.com/opinion/openai-frontier-training-offline-internet-containment-power tek54en 2026-10-24T20:11:31.940Z OpenAI just sealed its best models off from the internet. Read it as a confession, not a safety update. https://tek54.com/hardware/chips-389-million-power-semiconductors-fusion-gallium-nitride-quartz tek54en 2026-10-24T20:10:16.422Z America's newest chip money skips the chips. Most of it is a bet on fusion and the switches that move power. https://tek54.com/ai/kimi-k3-1-pro-hands-on-coding-cyber-benchmarks tek54en 2026-10-24T20:08:47.918Z Kimi's new model nearly matches Claude at coding, its maker says. I spent two days on the one skill it was built to be worse at.