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drexlspivey··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
Are Google and Microsoft “Indianified” because their CEOs are from India?
drexlspivey··on Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
It needs to keep up with all the new content generated daily. Search on the other hand can be cached
drexlspivey··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
This sub is amazing
drexlspivey··on GPT-5
But why would you want to put researchers in a marketing video? It’s not like they are explaining something deep.
drexlspivey··on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
And then he was trying to pitch rewriting it from scratch to elon
drexlspivey··on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
If that’s the case, do they have to pay tariffs when they re-import them?
drexlspivey··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
I vibe coded this in one hour to send files to my work laptop. Static page + webRTC + short lived cloudflare durable object to make the handshake.

https://send.drexl.dev/

drexlspivey··on Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO
More like Deep Blue vs Child prodigy. In the IMO the contestants are high school students not the greatest mathematicians in the world.
drexlspivey··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
Yes
drexlspivey··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
You wouldn’t be buying or holding any USDC in your account. It would be invisible to you
drexlspivey··on The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020)
What do you think "Iran" can do if they controlled 51% of processing power?
drexlspivey··on Apple vs the Law
This indie dev begs to differ https://x.com/levelsio/status/1833126426142179653
drexlspivey··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
This is grok 3 not 4
drexlspivey··on Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
That makes perfect sense actually, you pay them half of the ad revenue to get rid of half the ads.
drexlspivey··on What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate
I liked Daemon by Daniel Suarez, I read it many years ago but it’s more relevant now than ever (the story is about a rogue AI).
drexlspivey··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
Monero daily volume is like $50m lol
drexlspivey··on Figma files for proposed IPO
It’s the other way around, they bought some bitcoin because they are going public for the meme stock value.
drexlspivey··on Figma files for proposed IPO
They received a $1B termination fee in 2023 when their acquisition by Adobe collapsed. They would be losing money in 2023 otherwise
drexlspivey··on Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
Apple needs a team that knows how to train an LLM. Why would they need to buy perplexity to use their search engine?
drexlspivey··on Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
Too late, iphone 17 pro is already in production with 12 GB. They should have done it two years ago, it was such an obvious move.
drexlspivey··on Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri
There are rumors around that Apple is trying to buy perplexity which makes no sense to me.

Perplexity doesn’t have their own foundation model they just wrap existing models so what good are they? They should buy Mistral instead.

drexlspivey··on Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok
“A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA/BeyondCorp architecture, API/AI gateway, a PaaS, an infrastructure for MCP & A2A architectures or even as an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.”

Literally every single word of it

drexlspivey··on FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores
Ah yes, the big scam of offering zero interest unsecured loans to anyone without even running a credit check. These companies are bound to have big losses when things go south because they literally offer you free money.
drexlspivey··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
Futures are up. The market was also up last Friday when the Israel started bombing Iran
drexlspivey··on Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staffers $100M bonuses
They will just give them more equity which costs nothing
drexlspivey··on xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer
I was under the impression that they specifically picked this location because there is a big power plant nearby which they can hook into. Why are they building their own turbines?
drexlspivey··on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
Deepseek made a few major innovations allowing them to achieve major compute efficiency and then published them. My guess is that OpenAI just implemented these themselves.
drexlspivey··on EU OS for the Public Sector
The server hosting the image will make for a juicy target for foreign adversaries
drexlspivey··on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
Good to know, I remember you used to be able to disable it via config but looks like I was wrong
drexlspivey··on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
Bitcoin Core if you disable authentication
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