// a daily digest from the AI world
New models, tools and announcements — every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang returned from Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire technology ecosystem. The visit underlines Japan's growing role as a key Nvidia partner in building out AI infrastructure across Asia. Details of the individual agreements haven't been made public yet.
Apple has filed a lawsuit that could complicate OpenAI's long-discussed plans to enter the hardware market. The dispute adds uncertainty to one of the company's most closely watched projects outside its core AI model business. How things unfold will depend on the outcome of the case.
In a quoted statement, Sam Altman says OpenAI has been having extensive discussions about its open source strategy, including releasing a language model with roughly GPT-3-level capability that could run locally on consumer hardware. The company wants to move on this before others like Stability do.
Inspired by a remark from Julia Evans, the new SQLite Query Explainer runs entirely in the browser thanks to SQLite executed in Python via Pyodide and WebAssembly. It adds a layer of explanation on top of EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN output, making it easier to understand how the database evaluates a query.
Consultant Nik Suresh describes how AI mania is distorting decision-making at the large companies he works with. The piece is full of concrete, if anonymous, anecdotes, including an executive who admitted to never having used ChatGPT or any AI tool right after delivering a technical presentation on it. A reminder that hype and real understanding often don't match up.
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