Apple M5 chip https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
Apple Newsroom
Apple unleashes M5, the next big leap in AI performance for Apple silicon
Apple today announced M5, delivering advances to every aspect of the chip and the next big leap in AI.
Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework https://hyperflask.dev/
DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/waymo
Doordash
DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service and introduce limited-time Waymo promotion for DashPass members
Today, DoorDash announced a new partnership with Waymo to launch an autonomous delivery service in Metro Phoenix and introduce a limited-time $10 Waymo promotion for DashPass members in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/
TechCrunch
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
Live Stream from the Namib Desert https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.html
Blogspot
Live Stream From the Namib Desert
4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792
Dropsafe
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself…
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…
Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy
Dwarkesh
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-chiplet-apu-an-overview-of-strix
Chipsandcheese
AMD’s Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo
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Root System Drawings https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search
AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent
Tom's Hardware
Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like…
A paper presented at SOSP 2025 details how token-level scheduling helped one GPU serve multiple LLMs, reducing demand from 1,192 to 213 H20s.
BERT is just a single text diffusion step https://nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion/
nathan.rs
BERT is just a Single Text Diffusion Step
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models that generate one word at a time, Gemini Diffusion creates whole blocks of text by refining random…