Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 \ Anthropic
🧑🚀 Korea’s AI Push, ChatGPT Shopping & Claude 4.5 Coding
"...improved code-editing accuracy, stronger long-context performance, and enhanced agentic capabilities, Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 strikes a better balance between creativity and control than earlier models while reducing issues like deception and hallucination. It’s now powering updates to Claude Code and is available through Amazon Bedrock and GitHub Copilot."
interesting (too) "high-level description... and nice illustration
How Model Context Protocol can support your startup - Microsoft for Startups Blog
API = the “language” developers must learn and maintainGitHub - spessasus/SpessaSynth: MIDI SoundFont/DLS player and editor written in JavaScript.
SpessaSynth is a SoundFont2-based real-time synthesizer written in vanilla JavaScript.
The Last Deck You'll Ever Buy - YouTube
24"x24", 4/3" think, fire-proof, water-proof, super-quick installation, on aluminum rails
simple, durable
Apple to deploy MCP support for powerful AI experiences – Computerworld
It is a universally acknowledged truth that Apple has fallen behind in artificial intelligence, even though millions of its products can already run most cloud-based models as well as its own on-device AI, presently in the form of Apple Intelligence.
Announcing Pg_duckdb Version 1.0 - MotherDuck
An official Postgres extension (built in collaboration with Hydra and MotherDuck) that embeds DuckDB’s columnar-vectorized analytics engine and features into Postgres. GitHub repo.
BlogPostgres Weekly Issue 615: September 11, 2025
MotherDuck: Ducking Simple Data Warehouse based on DuckDB
More likely than "replace" is that AI will be used by most Architecture/Design tools,
a "hybrid" approach, like in PhotoShop. But what can AI do directly is quite amazing.
GOOGLE Nano Banana Update ARCHITECTS Shouldn't MISS | Step-By-Step Walkthrough - YouTube
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Start-up Modular raises $250mn to challenge Nvidia’s software dominance
A team of Silicon Valley veterans who previously worked at Apple and Google has raised $250mn to challenge Nvidia’s dominance of the software tools used to programme artificial intelligence chips. Palo Alto-based Modular, which is building an alternative to Nvidia’s Cuda software that has been vital to keeping customers locked to the chipmaker’s AI products, announced it has received the new investment at a $1.6bn valuation
Modular: Modular Raises $250M to scale AI's Unified Compute Layer
Modular: Modular’s bet to break out of the Matrix (Democratizing AI Compute, Part 10)
Amazon’s Zoox launches its robotaxi service in Las Vegas | The Seattle Times
"Zoox can afford to give free rides largely because of Amazon’s deep pockets. The e-commerce powerhouse, currently worth $2.5 trillion, bought Zoox for $1.2 billion five years ago as part of its efforts to establish a foothold in other fields of technology."
Course: Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Fundamentals | Udemy Business
"The Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol is revolutionizing how intelligent systems work together and this course gives you a front-row seat to the future of AI.
ShopRite adds AI-powered smart carts to 3 N.J. locations - lehighvalleylive.com
Instacart's Caper Carts let shoppers scan items, apply digital coupons, and check out without waiting in line at three New Jersey ShopRite locations.
similar product
Fast Pick - YouTube
Is it really that good?
BMW iX3: The Future of Software-Defined Cars - IEEE Spectrum
BMW’s Game-Changer: 2026 iX3 Has 500-Mile Range & 400kW Charging! - YouTube
@The Electric Viking - YouTube
2027 BMW iX3: A Massive Shake-Up for BMW's Electric SUVs @Edmunds
BMW iX3 (NA5): Overview, Configurator & Prices @BMWUSA
Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog
The new Fairwater AI datacenter in Wisconsin stands as a remarkable feat of engineering, covering 315 acres and housing three massive buildings with a combined 1.2 million square feet under roofs. Constructing this facility required 46.6 miles of deep foundation piles, 26.5 million pounds of structural steel, 120 miles of medium-voltage underground cable and 72.6 miles of mechanical piping.
good podcast:
A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels - Software Engineering Daily
"Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a research scientist at Cornell University where he focused on distributed systems and scalability, both of which are concepts that would later influence the design of AWS. He holds a PhD in computer science and has authored numerous academic papers on the reliability and performance of large-scale systems."big numbers, big money" game...
📊 Oracle's $455 Billion AI Gambit: How the Database Giant Quietly Reinvented Itself for the Cloud Wars @forwardfuture.ai
Oracle's 1QFY26 Earnings: Strategic Vindication - Nikhs
C++ is like a sports car: fast, and very challenging.
And based on installed codebase, short of some AI miracle, it is here to stay.
But it needs to be modernized, and this is super hard, to preserve some compatibility.
Google-level, long term, task.
In the meantime, Mojo language and Rust are available as simpler and easier alternatives
whenever integration does not need to be tight.
Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth - Software Engineering Daily
Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It’s designed to offer seamless interoperability with C++ while addressing shortcomings of C++ such as slow compilation times and lack of memory safety. Carbon also introduces features like a more readable syntax, improved generics, and automatic memory management while still allowing low-level control.Gemini tops the App Store thanks to new AI image model, Nano Banana | TechCrunch
(Google's) "Gemini’s mobile adoption has been soaring since the August launch of its Nano Banana image editor model, which has received positive reviews, particularly from users who say they can now more easily perform complex edits and create realistic images. The app has climbed to the top of global app stores’ charts and has seen a 45% month-over-month increase in downloads in the month of September so far, according to new data provided by app intelligence firm Appfigures.
Introducing upgrades to Codex | OpenAI
npm i -g @openai/codex
"Codex just got faster, more reliable, and better at real-time collaboration and tackling tasks independently anywhere you develop—whether via the terminal, IDE, web, or even your phone."
DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation - Microsoft Open Source Blog
BemiHQ/BemiDB: Open-source Snowflake and Fivetran alternative bundled together
BemiDB is an open-source Snowflake and Fivetran alternative bundled together. It seamlessly connects to different data sources, syncs data in a compressed columnar format to S3, and allows you to run complex queries using its Postgres-compatible analytical query engine.
Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding - YouTube @ All-In Podcast - YouTube
Tesla AI5: 40x faster from AI4 chips,
"The best way to predict the future is to create / invent it"
AI explain: The phrase "The best way to predict the future is to create it" is a call to action, suggesting that instead of passively trying to foresee future events, one should proactively work to shape their desired future through choices, actions, and a clear vision. While often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, the quote is also attributed to Peter Drucker, with some sources indicating a connection to Alan Kay as well. The core idea is that by setting goals and taking consistent, intentional steps, individuals and organizations can influence outcomes and make their ideal future a reality.Creating Your Future: The Psychology Behind the Quote | LinkedIn
Quote Origin: We Cannot Predict the Future, But We Can Invent It – Quote Investigator®
by Jeffrey Elkner (with liberal borrowings from the work of Allen B. Downey and Paul Bui)
illustrated by Natalia Cerna
Last Updated: 22 March 2025
Home of the Future: Zero-Energy Passive House - YouTube
Inside the U.S. Department of Energy's 2024 Housing Innovation Awards Grand Winner, a 3,585 ft2, sustainably built, -9 HERS score Passive House in New York that cost just 10% over standard construction.VW: "if you can not win, then join them" (Chinese EV car makers, manufacturing this for VW)
AUDI's E5 is the BEST AUDI EVER: 770 km Range for $32,800 - YouTube by The Electric Viking - YouTube
The Audi E5 is an electric car exclusively for the Chinese market, built by the new sister brand AUDI (spelled in capitals) in collaboration with SAIC Motor. It is a battery-electric, compact executive car that features advanced digital technology, including a unique dashboard with no traditional rings. The E5 Sportback offers a range of up to 770 km (478 miles) on the CLTC cycle, multiple powertrain options, and 800v architecture for fast charging, making it a game-changer for affordable, premium EVs in China.Like a big smart refrigerator + tv... makes some sense...
But I would expect much more innovation on construction side
This will need to be revolutionized by some startup, like Tesla did for EV cars.
I Went to Korea to Test LG's New PREFAB HOME - YouTube by Kerry Tarnow - YouTube
LG is officially building prefab homes and have are exploring expansion into the US market.usually this is quite slow... compared to cloud based AI... but it can work...
How To Integrate a Local LLM Into VS Code - The New Stack
Integrating VS Code with a local LLM like Ollama offers a powerful tool you can leverage for whatever coding or coding-adjacent need you have.
The extension in question is called Continue.
Goodbye Lithium! New 3,600,000 Mile EV Battery costs 50% LESS - YouTube
How CATL Made Batteries 90% Cheaper (And What Happens Next) - YouTube
by Undecided with Matt Ferrell - YouTube
"How CATL Made Batteries 90% Cheaper (And What Happens Next). Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code UNDECIDED at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/undecided What if I told you the world's largest battery company just announced batteries that cost as low as $10 per kilowatt hour? Not $100. Ten. And the kicker? They're using salt. Yes, the same stuff sitting on your kitchen table. But CATL makes more lithium batteries than anyone else on the planet. They're literally winning the lithium game. So why are they suddenly pivoting to a technology that's been considered second-rate for decades? No technical papers. No detailed explanations. Just bold claims and two new products ready to hit the market. So is this the real deal that changes everything? Or are we looking at tech hype that’s too salty to swallow?"
