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Tech in 60: trends you need now.
Frontier AI keeps leaping ahead. Etcetera Journal reports that Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.5 is outperforming human engineers on complex coding and systems tasks, signaling a shift from AI as an assistant to AI as a primary problem solver. That accelerates the capability race kicked off by launches like Google’s Gemini 3 and pushes companies to rethink how many humans they actually need in high‑skill technical roles.
But power-hungry models need new hardware. Carnegie Mellon University says a team spanning CMU, Stanford, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater has built a 3D chip that stacks compute and memory like a skyscraper, delivering up to an order‑of‑magnitude gain over today’s flat designs with a credible path to hundred‑fold efficiency boosts for AI workloads. That kind of jump is what will make tomorrow’s massive models affordable to run.
On the ground, data center construction has become the new space race. Data Center Knowledge reports Microsoft has unveiled an “AI superfactory” in Atlanta, tying together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and exabytes of storage, while Google is working with Westinghouse on 10 AI‑optimized nuclear reactors to power its future capacity. In the Middle East, Oracle is rolling out an Nvidia Blackwell supercluster in Abu Dhabi as the UAE pursues an AI‑native government, and xAI is planning a 500‑megawatt facility outside Riyadh.
At the research frontier, NeurIPS 2025 coverage from Arm and others highlights a pivot from “bigger at any cost” to “smarter and more stable.” Work on gated attention is making large language models more reliable, small language models are getting good enough to run sophisticated reasoning directly on phones and laptops, and “world models” are letting robots rehearse reality inside high‑fidelity simulators before they ever touch the real world.
Meanwhile, listeners are voting with their wallets for tech that feels human‑scale. Techish notes that 2025’s breakout gadgets are ones that give back time and calm: robot vacuums that truly see your home, AI PCs that quietly optimize performance and battery, and wellness devices that use evidence‑based light therapy instead of gimmicks. The throughline: useful, invisible AI that earns its place in your life.
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Frontier AI keeps leaping ahead. Etcetera Journal reports that Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.5 is outperforming human engineers on complex coding and systems tasks, signaling a shift from AI as an assistant to AI as a primary problem solver. That accelerates the capability race kicked off by launches like Google’s Gemini 3 and pushes companies to rethink how many humans they actually need in high‑skill technical roles.
But power-hungry models need new hardware. Carnegie Mellon University says a team spanning CMU, Stanford, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater has built a 3D chip that stacks compute and memory like a skyscraper, delivering up to an order‑of‑magnitude gain over today’s flat designs with a credible path to hundred‑fold efficiency boosts for AI workloads. That kind of jump is what will make tomorrow’s massive models affordable to run.
On the ground, data center construction has become the new space race. Data Center Knowledge reports Microsoft has unveiled an “AI superfactory” in Atlanta, tying together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and exabytes of storage, while Google is working with Westinghouse on 10 AI‑optimized nuclear reactors to power its future capacity. In the Middle East, Oracle is rolling out an Nvidia Blackwell supercluster in Abu Dhabi as the UAE pursues an AI‑native government, and xAI is planning a 500‑megawatt facility outside Riyadh.
At the research frontier, NeurIPS 2025 coverage from Arm and others highlights a pivot from “bigger at any cost” to “smarter and more stable.” Work on gated attention is making large language models more reliable, small language models are getting good enough to run sophisticated reasoning directly on phones and laptops, and “world models” are letting robots rehearse reality inside high‑fidelity simulators before they ever touch the real world.
Meanwhile, listeners are voting with their wallets for tech that feels human‑scale. Techish notes that 2025’s breakout gadgets are ones that give back time and calm: robot vacuums that truly see your home, AI PCs that quietly optimize performance and battery, and wellness devices that use evidence‑based light therapy instead of gimmicks. The throughline: useful, invisible AI that earns its place in your life.
Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs
For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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Frontier AI keeps leaping ahead. Etcetera Journal reports that Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.5 is outperforming human engineers on complex coding and systems tasks, signaling a shift from AI as an assistant to AI as a primary problem solver. That accelerates the capability race kicked off by launches like Google’s Gemini 3 and pushes companies to rethink how many humans they actually need in high‑skill technical roles.
But power-hungry models need new hardware. Carnegie Mellon University says a team spanning CMU, Stanford, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater has built a 3D chip that stacks compute and memory like a skyscraper, delivering up to an order‑of‑magnitude gain over today’s flat designs with a credible path to hundred‑fold efficiency boosts for AI workloads. That kind of jump is what will make tomorrow’s massive models affordable to run.
On the ground, data center construction has become the new space race. Data Center Knowledge reports Microsoft has unveiled an “AI superfactory” in Atlanta, tying together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and exabytes of storage, while Google is working with Westinghouse on 10 AI‑optimized nuclear reactors to power its future capacity. In the Middle East, Oracle is rolling out an Nvidia Blackwell supercluster in Abu Dhabi as the UAE pursues an AI‑native government, and xAI is planning a 500‑megawatt facility outside Riyadh.
At the research frontier, NeurIPS 2025 coverage from Arm and others highlights a pivot from “bigger at any cost” to “smarter and more stable.” Work on gated attention is making large language models more reliable, small language models are getting good enough to run sophisticated reasoning directly on phones and laptops, and “world models” are letting robots rehearse reality inside high‑fidelity simulators before they ever touch the real world.
Meanwhile, listeners are voting with their wallets for tech that feels human‑scale. Techish notes that 2025’s breakout gadgets are ones that give back time and calm: robot vacuums that truly see your home, AI PCs that quietly optimize performance and battery, and wellness devices that use evidence‑based light therapy instead of gimmicks. The throughline: useful, invisible AI that earns its place in your life.
Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs
For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Frontier AI keeps leaping ahead. Etcetera Journal reports that Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.5 is outperforming human engineers on complex coding and systems tasks, signaling a shift from AI as an assistant to AI as a primary problem solver. That accelerates the capability race kicked off by launches like Google’s Gemini 3 and pushes companies to rethink how many humans they actually need in high‑skill technical roles.
But power-hungry models need new hardware. Carnegie Mellon University says a team spanning CMU, Stanford, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater has built a 3D chip that stacks compute and memory like a skyscraper, delivering up to an order‑of‑magnitude gain over today’s flat designs with a credible path to hundred‑fold efficiency boosts for AI workloads. That kind of jump is what will make tomorrow’s massive models affordable to run.
On the ground, data center construction has become the new space race. Data Center Knowledge reports Microsoft has unveiled an “AI superfactory” in Atlanta, tying together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and exabytes of storage, while Google is working with Westinghouse on 10 AI‑optimized nuclear reactors to power its future capacity. In the Middle East, Oracle is rolling out an Nvidia Blackwell supercluster in Abu Dhabi as the UAE pursues an AI‑native government, and xAI is planning a 500‑megawatt facility outside Riyadh.
At the research frontier, NeurIPS 2025 coverage from Arm and others highlights a pivot from “bigger at any cost” to “smarter and more stable.” Work on gated attention is making large language models more reliable, small language models are getting good enough to run sophisticated reasoning directly on phones and laptops, and “world models” are letting robots rehearse reality inside high‑fidelity simulators before they ever touch the real world.
Meanwhile, listeners are voting with their wallets for tech that feels human‑scale. Techish notes that 2025’s breakout gadgets are ones that give back time and calm: robot vacuums that truly see your home, AI PCs that quietly optimize performance and battery, and wellness devices that use evidence‑based light therapy instead of gimmicks. The throughline: useful, invisible AI that earns its place in your life.
Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
Some great Deals https://amzn.to/49SJ3Qs
For more check out http://www.quietplease.ai
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI