Nvidia will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced “Blackwell” AI chips to South Korea’s government and major firms, including Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Reuters The deal positions South Korea to become a regional AI hub, aligning with President Lee Jae‑myung’s recent push for increased AI investment amid global economic and trade pressures. Under … Read more
Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai has received the first city‑wide permit for fully driverless commercial robotaxi operations in the city of Shenzhen, in southern China. Reuters The permit, jointly issued with the city’s leading taxi operator Xihu Group, will enable the rollout of fare‑paying, driverless ride‑hailing across districts including Nanshan, Qianhai, and Baoan, before expanding … Read more
Uber Technologies Inc. will invest US$200 million over five years to establish a software and technology development centre in Istanbul, Turkey’s Industry and Technology Ministry said. Reuters The planned centre will become Uber’s fourth global tech hub outside the United States, joining similar facilities in Brazil, India, and the Netherlands. The move underscores Uber’s strategic push to … Read more
The Centralization Problem As of 2025, AI development has become increasingly centralized: The Big Players: OpenAI (backed by Microsoft): GPT-4, GPT-5 in development Google DeepMind: Gemini Ultra, AlphaFold, AlphaCode Anthropic: Claude 3 Opus, Constitutional AI research Meta: LLaMA series, open-weights but trained on massive clusters xAI, Mistral, Cohere: All well-funded, cluster-dependent The Resource Barrier: Pretraining … Read more
Four engines, one prompt, slightly suspiciously honest commentary Welcome to the colosseum. Today I’m pitting four image-generation heavyweights against one another: Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, BNX AI, and Google’s Nano Banana (the flashy image/editing arm of Gemini). I wrote this as a first-person lab notebook – a little messy, a little snarky, and committed to testing one single prompt across services so you can see … Read more
By Guru Hegde When we first deployed CockroachDB across three regions within the US, our metrics looked great until latency shot up in unpredictable ways. That’s when I learned geography isn’t just a deployment detail; it’s the real control plane of distributed databases. The Dream Database (and Its Hidden Catch): Every developer and system architect … Read more
Multimodal AI workloads break traditional data engines. They need to embed documents, classify images, and transcribe audio, not just run aggregations and joins. These multimodal workloads are tough: memory usage balloons mid-pipeline, processing requires both CPU and GPU, and a single machine can’t handle the data volume. This post provides a comprehensive comparison of Daft … Read more
How a simple authentication refactor taught me that AI assistants are great at code, but need human guidance for architectural decisions This article is based on my experience refactoring the authentication system in the heyradcode/do-not-stop project. The Task I had a shared authentication package (@do-not-stop/shared-auth) that was being used by both my frontend (React web) … Read more
Memory, Loss and The World Beyond Every person and every culture is an architecture of forgetting. Memory pretends to build continuity, but what truly keeps a self or a society alive is the rhythm of deletion—the way we erase, rename, and overwrite until the present can move again. What follows is a look inward and … Read more
The mobile gaming industry is booming, with gamers spending more than $100 billion each year on in-app purchases and downloads. But, with millions of apps fighting for attention, how can games stand out? The answer could be playable advertisements, an interactive ad format that is changing how people interact with games. These playable ads do … Read more
In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, “AI integration” has become a ubiquitous line item. For many PHP developers, this translates to a simple service class that wraps Guzzle or symfony/http-client to call an OpenAI endpoint. This is a useful, but ultimately “dumb,” application. It has no memory, no context beyond what you spoon-feed … Read more
Key Takeaways Auto-scaling does not revolve solely around elasticity but also involves creating systems that can rebound innovatively and cost-effectively. Distributed systems Resiliency is built on observability, predictive scaling, and dependency awareness. Chaos testing helps the system practice recovering on its own and turns failures at scale into valuable lessons. By being mindful of both … Read more
When the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) model was introduced as a niche offering for retailers in the 19th century, no one anticipated the revolution to be this grand. The system has grown to become a major contributor to the growth of retailers, digital platforms, and e-commerce in 2025. Globally, BNPL transactions have increased by … Read more
Why OBS (Outcome-Based Services)? Enterprises don’t buy kubernetes clusters or model weights, they buy outcomes. The OBS playbook encodes those outcomes before work begins. We tie SLAs and KPIs to ROI with a cadence that never goes out of date: Daily Ops Reviews keep services green. Monthly Business Reviews (MBR) connect tech health to cost … Read more
Note: This is part 2 of the series “Demystifying Real-Time Video: A Practical Guide to FFmpeg & MediaMTX” Introduction: The Real World is Messy In Part 1, we built something magical: a live webcam feed streaming directly to your browser with minimal latency. But let’s be honest, what we created was a beautiful proof of … Read more
“As an investor, you kind of have to not only say, okay, cool tech, sure, but emotionally, how does it make me feel? And how does it make others feel around me?”
Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.
Spooky season is over, which means it’s officially Mariah Carey season. It also means streaming services are already loading up on Christmas movies. On pure principle, they’ll be omitted here – Santa doesn’t need a full two months of our attention. Also, while not a movie, worth noting that season two of The Vince Staples … Read more
At Disrupt, Botha had advice for founders who are swimming in terms sheets right now.
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Tokyo, Japan, October 31st, 2025/Chainwire/–In a landmark evolution, the ARCS (ARX) project has transitioned from visionary foundations to tangible, real-world impact. Launched in 2019 with a bold mission to empower data sovereignty, enabling individuals to control and monetize their personal data, gaining fair economic value from it, ARCS has now entered its ARCS 2.0 phase. … Read more
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