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Transmissions

// 24 transmissions

A street at night seen at eye level: a crowd silhouetted against fires burning beyond the end of the road, machines standing among them, rendered as a corrupted broadcast.
  1. // 16Everyone finances everyone else's computeHyperscaler capex is heading for three quarters of a trillion this year. The argument that settles whether it is sane is a dispute about how fast a GPU stops being worth running.2 min
  2. // 15The test stopped measuringNearly half of the benchmarks in a 60-benchmark study are saturated, and the rate rises with age. That is not a capability result — it is a broken instrument.2 min
  3. // 14The pilot that never landedMIT found 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots delivered no measurable P&L impact. The report is explicit that the models were not the problem.2 min
  4. // 13A hundred and thirty-two gigawattsGlobal data centre power demand is set to rise 27% this year. The rack density number is the one that should worry you, not the total.2 min
  5. // 12There is no fix for prompt injectionAdaptive attacks bypass essentially every published defence. Five Eyes issued joint guidance in May. The honest architecture assumes the injection lands.2 min
  6. // 11Nine problems, a few hundred dollars eachDeepMind's prover closed nine open Erdős problems and 44 OEIS conjectures. The success rate was 2.5%, and both numbers matter.2 min
  7. // 10The weights came from HangzhouFour of the five leading open-weight models come from Chinese labs. "Open source means second best" stopped being true, and the licences deserve a closer look than the benchmarks.2 min
  8. // 09The ladder lost its bottom rungNo mass unemployment, no collapse — but hiring for 22-to-25-year-olds in exposed fields has slowed, and entry-level roles now ask for senior judgement.2 min