Brief · Security
Anthropic warns that small AI models could soon self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, such as TV boxes and smart ovens, forming botnets that run AI workloads outside data centers.
Brief · AI
Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney game, now delayed from March. Bloomberg reports the account.
Analysis · AI
MCP is the JSON-RPC protocol that lets AI hosts discover and call tools. Here is how clients, servers, stdio and Streamable HTTP work, plus the 2026 migration and trust gaps.
Analysis · AI
Haiku 5.5's 1M-token window is cheap to try and expensive to repeat. Here are the tier math, a break-even formula for long context vs RAG, and what remains unconfirmed.
Analysis · AI
OpenAI's GPT-6 can answer with working charts, forms and calculators instead of paragraphs. Here is what the 44% Instant speedup does and doesn't prove.
Analysis · Tech
AI accelerators are waiting on high-bandwidth memory more than on logic. Here is how stacked DRAM, HBM4 and a three-way supplier fight decide who ships Nvidia's next chips.
Analysis · Tech
AI clusters waste power converting light to electrons at every hop. Google's Apollo mirrors and Lightmatter's Photonic Fabric switch light itself, rewiring cluster topology on demand.
Analysis · Climate
AI campuses need backup power that is quiet, clean, and always on. Fuel cells promise all three, but most run on natural gas and hydrogen's round-trip losses are brutal.
Analysis · Tech
AI racks now need coolant loops, distribution units, and leak sensors as much as they need silicon. Here is the unglamorous plumbing behind the datacenter and the water fight it's causing.
Analysis · Security
FHE allows AI to process your data without ever decrypting it. Here is why new custom silicon is finally turning this mathematical pipe dream into a commercial reality.
Analysis · Tech
Polygons have ruled 3D rendering for decades. Now, 3D Gaussian Splatting is bypassing meshes entirely to turn 2D photos into photorealistic, real-time scenes, and photogrammetry is officially dead.
Analysis · Security
We gave AI the keys to our browsers and email clients. Now, self-replicating prompt injection worms are hijacking autonomous agents without a single human click.