Ben Thompson's weekly update reads the week's moves — Google's capital maneuvers, the Nvidia AI PC, Microsoft's repositioning — as a single story about where leverage in the AI stack is migrating: away from model labs and toward whoever controls compute, capital, and distribution.
A close reading of rsync's commit history after the project began accepting AI-assisted contributions, arguing the bug rate visibly rose and digging into which classes of defect the model introduced. The comment thread pushes back hard on the methodology.
University of Rochester researchers describe a desalination approach that avoids the concentrated brine byproduct that makes conventional plants an environmental liability, pulling fresh water from seawater with a process they say scales more cleanly.
An advanced reactor design reached initial criticality — sustaining a controlled fission reaction — which the Energy Department is calling a first for the next generation of US nuclear, a step toward the smaller, faster-to-build plants the AI-era power crunch keeps demanding.