Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models. Bit of irony here. Chinese engineers copied American AI research, and now that they think they've achieved parity, they want to cut off any access to their models.
The United States and China are locked in a contest over semiconductors, supply chains, and technological primacy. Europe writes some of the world’s most demanding AI rules, often at the cost of speed. India and many countries in the Global South evaluate AI governance differently, focusing on who has access to frontier models and under what conditions. This is the Great Fragmentation in plain view. The global technology stack is splintering into rival blocs that no longer share standards, priorities, or even a common definition of winning.
Today,
SK Hynix US Listing Said to Be Multiple Times Oversubscribed, yet chip stocks are plunging. Even though the price of a Mac Studio is through the roof. It's crazy.
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And the framing keeps softening. Back in February, Google executives were suggesting the new Siri would just run on Google's own servers during an Alphabet earnings call, calling Google Apple's "preferred cloud provider." By March, Apple was reportedly asking Google to set up servers meeting Apple's privacy bar, which read at the time like damage control. Now, in July, we get a popup that just tells you plainly: this goes to Google Cloud. That's honest. It's also the last stop on a walk-back that started with "your data stays on our silicon" and ended with "here's a consent screen for when it doesn't."
...the precedent is set: Apple devices now have a sanctioned pathway for routing Apple Intelligence requests to a third party's cloud, and a UI pattern for asking permission once and moving on.
It was too good to last.
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How little exercise can you get away with? I kept seeing this article pop up everywhere, so I had to click it. Basically it says that even a little bit of exercise is better than just sitting in your chair all day. It's called
VILPA, which stands for
vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity.
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Oregon’s semiconductor industry is in decline and is “at risk of becoming an insignificant stakeholder” globally, according to a new analysis commissioned by the state.
The report by Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency, concludes the Silicon Forest faces “long-term stagnation” because it is too reliant on Intel, lacks homegrown talent and faces regulatory uncertainty, high costs and a diminished supply of industrial land.
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