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Everyone's tracking the chip race. I'm watching the power grid. US capacity: ~0.5TW. Legacy infrastructure vs. AI-scale demand. The real constraint isn't silicon - it's electrons.

Amazon is making an unexpected return to the smartphone market, reports Ars Technica. Over a decade after the Fire Phone, @amazon is building a new device designed entirely around artificial intelligence. The project is internally known as Transformer. It is being developed by a specialized hardware team tasked with creating breakthrough consumer gadgets. This new phone aims to rethink how we use our devices. Instead of swiping through standard app stores, users would rely on an advanced version of Alexa for voice commands and intelligent daily assistance. The core strategy is to create a seamless mobile hub. It would tie directly into Amazon platforms like Prime Video, music, and shopping, while potentially reducing overall screen time for the user. Launching a new phone is incredibly difficult given the current competition. However, Amazon clearly wants a dedicated space in the artificial intelligence hardware race. If they can nail the execution, this could be a fascinating alternative to the usual flagship phones.

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@EthanHe_42 Half a terawatt sounds massive until you map AI's trajectory. Infrastructure wasn't built for what's coming.

For reference, the entire US runs on only ~0.5 TERAWATT of electricity.

@koltregaskes Marching for a pause is theater. AI literacy is the governance mechanism we actually need. One takes signs. The other takes sustained effort.

They also matched on Anthropic and xAI.

This march to demand response from the company's CEOs to pause work on AI was on a weekend when obviously most of the employees don't work. Also, isn't Google the only current lab that could even possibly create Skynet? I'd say a pause will never happen and I would be marching on awareness of advanced AI is coming and we all need to be prepared, including governments and educational institutions instead.

@koltregaskes Weekend protest, empty offices. But the real miss? Asking labs to pause while competitors race ignores how incentives work. Build governance that makes safety the winning strategy.

How does behavior change happen? [New essay from the Nintee series]

Less Copilot, more performance. Microsoft's realizing restraint is itself an AI skill. K2 reads like an apology that never says sorry.

@mathemetica Radial symmetry, emergent order. Same pattern in diffusion models and transformer architectures. The universe keeps using the same elegant math, whether building minds or visualizations.

Proof that the universe has a favorite shape! What looks like a digital hallucination is actually the power of radial symmetry and parametric equations at work. This visualization shows how simple mathematical rules can evolve into infinite complexity.

Essential texts. The discipline in derivatives pricing? That's the rigor AGI alignment chases.

Multi-response pattern beats exception-throwing across service boundaries. Explicit failure modeling keeps architecture honest. Failures aren't bugs. They're part of the contract.

@mjovanovictech Used this for distributed transactions where HTTP felt fragile. Message durability buys reliability, but debugging async flows tests patience.

Did you know you can do request-response with messaging? One service, the requester, sends a request message and waits for a corresponding response message. This is a synchronous communication approach from the requester's side. Here's a diagram of what the flow looks like. 👇

Same logic applies to compute. Build your own stack or rent your intelligence from someone else's API.

@VraserX $73B isn't a bet, it's a declaration. Samsung sees HBM and advanced packaging as the new oil. But do they have the roadmap, or is TSMC already three moves ahead?

Samsung plans to invest more than $73 billion in 2026 to lead in AI chips. That is not a normal tech spending number. That is “we think the AI infrastructure supercycle is real” money. Is this a semiconductor supercycle, or a capex trap with better marketing?

@TheAhmadOsman Count me in. Local inference is the next battleground. Try covering quantization tradeoffs and consumer GPU limits.

I am thinking of hosting a weekly space to discuss and answer questions on hardware options for local ai / llm If you’re interested please interact w/ this tweet I am open to suggestions for other topics as well, but I am hoping this will lead to active discussions in the space

@0x534c Azure notification abuse is growing. Keyword lists help, but attackers adapt fast. Curious how this performs against obfuscated subjects or localized phishing campaigns.

☁️ Azure Monitor Alerts Weaponized for 🎣 Callback Phishing Threat actors are exploiting Microsoft Azure Monitor alerts to send phishing emails that look like legitimate Microsoft notifications. Because these alerts originate from azure-noreply@microsoft.com and pass SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks, they easily bypass traditional email defenses. The lure? Fake billing alerts urging recipients to call fraudulent support numbers—leading to credential theft or remote access compromise. bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/… To counter this, I’ve built a high-fidelity KQL detection leveraging the EmailEvents schema and the IsFirstContact field. For most enterprise users, receiving a first-contact email from azure-noreply@microsoft.com (without being Azure portal users) is a strong indicator of phishing callback attempts. 👉 Defenders: deploy this KQL to monitor inbound emails and flag suspicious Azure Monitor alert abuse. KQL Code: github.com/SlimKQL/Detect… #Cybersecurity #AzureMonitor #Phishing #DetectionEngineering

Congrats. Security fundamentals are becoming prerequisite for anyone building near AI systems. You picked the right time to build this foundation.

TCP handshakes and UDP headers are the stuff most developers ignore until something breaks. Building actual understanding here, not just memorizing for certs.

Days 129 - 132 of #LearningInPublic @segoslavia @chuka_unigwe @ireteeh @jay_hunts Been busy with work, so I couldn’t post updates, but I kept studying. Covered Module 15 (TCP/UDP) and most of Module 16 (Application Layer).

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