Today's Hallucination HQGoogle's New Server Farm Has a Rather Unusual Location
Google is launching a satellite carrying its AI chips into orbit as part of Project Suncatcher — an experimental programme that could eventually put entire data centres in space. The logic: satellites avoid the land costs, planning permissions, and suspicious neighbours that plague Earth-based infrastructure. Whether AI performs better when freed from gravity remains unclear, but Google is apparently willing to spend launch money to find out. The final frontier, now with 15% more matrix multiplication.
Source: The Verge
The Algorithm That Just Made Cryptographers Spill Their Tea
RSA encryption — the mathematical padlock on most of the internet — rests on one assumption: that factoring huge numbers is brutally hard. Researchers have now found a new method of cracking it that is faster than anything previously known, bypassing the traditional factoring approach entirely. It doesn't break RSA tomorrow, but it does mean cryptographers must now worry about two things instead of one, which in their profession counts as a rough week.
Source: Ars Technica
Typing "Vibe" Into a Text Box Is Now Worth $600 Million a Year
Lovable, the AI app-builder where users describe what they want and receive working software in return, has crossed $600 million in annualised revenue. Co-founder Fabian Hedin notes that apps built on the platform rack up nearly a billion views per month — which means a significant portion of the internet is now running on vibes, technically speaking. Whether your next bank's loan portal was assembled by someone who just typed "make it feel friendly" is a question perhaps best left unasked.
Source: TechCrunch
Climate Week Discovers It Has a New, Very Talkative Guest
World leaders, investors, and policymakers converged on New York for Climate Week and the UN General Assembly — and found AI had already reserved a seat at every panel. The technology is simultaneously being championed as a climate solution and scrutinised as a significant energy drain, which makes for lively dinners. The irony of flying thousands of delegates around the world to discuss emissions while debating the carbon footprint of chatbots appears to have gone largely unminuted.
Source: MIT Technology Review
Meta Releases an AI You Can Clip to Your Bag Like a Keyring
Meta's Muse Charm is a small, dangly AI gadget designed to appeal to Gen Z's enthusiasm for bag charms, retro aesthetics, and turning technology into jewellery. It looks like a Tamagotchi — that 1990s digital pet that died if you forgot about it — except this one presumably talks back rather than simply perishing from neglect. Meta, having spent years failing to make people wear headsets, has concluded that the path to your face runs through your tote bag.
Source: TechCrunch
As always, AI is doing its best. So are we.
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