AI: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4, Opus 4

Introducing Claude 4 \ Anthropic

introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.

Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to your instructions.

A day with Claude - YouTube

Anthropic’s Claude 4 AI models are better at coding and reasoning | The Verge

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book: Apple in China; HarmonyOS vs Android?

wow! a fascinating geo-business story / book!

a must watch / listen / read!

Patrick McGee - "Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company" | The Daily Show - YouTube

Apple inadvertently became the largest supporter of 'Made in China 2025', says author Patrick McGee - YouTube

Why China Outpaces the World in Manufacturing | Patrick McGee Explains | Geopolitics Thought Leaders - YouTube

Patrick McGee joins Hugh to talk about the CCP’s capture of Apple - YouTube

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company: McGee, Patrick: 9781668053379: Amazon.com: Books

"For readers of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.

...Apple was lured by China’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. Soon it was sending thousands of engineers across the Pacific, training millions of workers, and spending hundreds of billions of dollars to create the world’s most sophisticated supply chain....

Without explicitly intending to, Apple built an advanced electronics industry within China, only to discover that its massive investments in technology upgrades had inadvertently given Beijing a power..."

Patrick McGee - author of Apple in China

1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial (HD) - YouTube

Apple Steve Jobs Heres To The Crazy Ones - YouTube

Apple - Here's to the Crazy Ones (1997) - YouTube

Apple iMac - Colors (1998) - YouTube

A tribute to the iMac "Colors" ad from 1999 - YouTube

HarmonyOS - Wikipedia

HarmonyOS (HMOS) is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart watches, personal computers and other smart devices. It has a microkernel design with a single framework: the operating system selects suitable kernels from the abstraction layer in the case of devices that use diverse resources

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Initially based on Android, HarmonyOS NEXT (the newest iteration) has moved away from Android's core and is built on a self-developed kernel. It uses a microkernel, which is claimed to be more efficient and secure than Android's monolithic kernel.

HarmonyOS 2 - Huawei Global

Huawei's big comeback, explained - YouTube