We went to this year’s materials forum at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, and here are some takeaways: Changing one material in an AI chip package can force another supplier to rework a design and rerun tests. Several speakers told us that packaging specs are changing so quickly that suppliers need to share design data earlier to leave enough time for testing. Yang Wei Wen, president of IV Technologies, a Taiwanese maker of CMP pads, gave us an example. New packaging materials change what it takes to polish a surface flat. His team already develops processes with customers, and he wants equipment makers involved from the start. Co-packaged optics shows why the timing matters. Companies are still exploring several ways to integrate optics into a chip package. Which design they choose changes what their partners need to test. We will release interview videos with some suppliers, so stay tuned.

we got to use the models when they were a lot worse and watch them progressively improve non-technical people are just discovering agents now and they're going straight into opus 5.5 and getting their minds blown

We’re in a hybrid war involving migrant invaders coming here to destroy our values, cyberattacks, and hoax bomb threats coming from other countries to destabilize our institutions. This shows just how fragile our entire system is. We need a total reset.

we have a new contender for the most unhinged AI product ever a Slovenian startup built an AI camera that recognizes your family and shoots paintballs at everyone else it's called PaintCam Eve, and it already hit its Kickstarter goal with over a month to spare the problem with a normal security camera is it just films the guy stealing your package and by the time you watch the clip, he's long gone so PaintCam bolted a paintball launcher onto the camera > it spins 360 degrees, sees in the dark and aims with a laser > the top model runs face recognition on everyone who walks onto your property and checks them against the people you've approved > if it doesn't recognize you, it warns you out loud to leave > if you stay, it opens fire the first time this thing lights up a DoorDash driver, the lawsuit is going to be incredible lmao