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In Breaking Analysis 322, we shared with you that our forecast of a $1 trillion silicon business arrived two years earlier than we had forecast. The reason for our 24-month miss was the bottleneck had moved from graphics processing units to memory. Micron Inc. gave us a new datapoint in its third-quarter earnings print. It said DRAM prices rose by more than 60% sequentially in the quarter, while the number of bits shipped barely grew. Today we address what that means. Here’s the key question we ask today: Is this undersupply temporary or is there a structural change in the…

To mimic creative thinking, these AI pioneers intentionally injected randomness into algorithms designed to deterministically solve problems, Lindquist writes in a new paper that appears in the journal Past and Present. In the paper, he traces the origins of AI hallucinations back to this early research and suggests there will be inevitable tradeoffs between creativity and predictability when trying to build machines that mimic human behavior. MIT News spoke with Lindquist about these ideas.Q: Why did early computer engineers believe they needed to inject randomness and irrationality into AI systems designed for logic and calculation? A: There is a long history of many figures in…

The iPhone Duo hit shelves on Friday morning and sold out minutes after many Apple stores opened.  Crowds lined up for the iPhone Duo across the country, and CNET editors got a glimpse of consumers’ anticipation of getting Apple’s first foldable phone on its launch day. At Apple’s 5th Avenue location in New York, the line started forming on Wednesday by 9 a.m. ET — two days before the launch. Over 50 people were waiting in line by Thursday at 7 p.m. ET, sometimes with buckets serving as placeholders. In the first minutes after the store opened, there wasn’t word…

Salesforce signed a $5.66B deal to acquire Braze. Is Marc Benioff buying a legacy rival to rescue Marketing Cloud from AI obsolescence? Salesforce just agreed to acquire real-time customer engagement platform Braze for $5.66 billion in cash. Marc Benioff is offering $47.50 per share, which is a staggering 58% premium over Braze’s prior closing price. This deal marks a glaring admission of failure for Salesforce’s legacy Marketing Cloud. Enterprise brands such as Canva, Instacart, and Venmo originally pivoted to Braze because it catered to the younger generation of customers- modern, in-app, push mobile messaging and behavioral triggers. Meanwhile, Salesforce has…

GovTech expects roughly 270 to 350 employees to be affected over the next two years, including a third round of layoffs. The Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) has retrenched 38 employees, in the second of three planned rounds of layoffs. The cuts are meant to reduce reliance on vendors and let the team take greater ownership of its products. The 38 affected roles were primarily structured around traditional project delivery, GovTech said in a media reply on Oct 22. GovTech also reviewed other employees. “Following the workforce review, 106 officers will remain in their current roles, while another 106…

Grok Bot has been on a roll lately, with xAI pushing a steady stream of updates to the app. On iPhone, it recently picked up the ability to start a voice conversation with a press of the Action Button, and it also made its way to Apple CarPlay, and more. Now, it is getting its most useful update yet. Grok Bot can now connect with the apps on your phone, including Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, and more. The feature is rolling out now on both iOS and Android. What can Grok Bot do with your apps? Based on the announcement image,…

Zero trust is assembled from many tools, and NIST’s 2025 practice guide[7] built 19 example architectures with 24 vendors to show it. Fidelis products sit in the detection and verification layer. They don’t set access policy, manage identities, or enforce segmentation, and they don’t make an organization HIPAA compliant.Fidelis Network® gives teams visibility into traffic that access controls can’t explain on their own. It collects more than 300 metadata attributes of protocols and files, inspects sessions deeply, and profiles TLS traffic to help separate human from machine activity. It detects lateral movement, correlates alerts against MITRE ATT&CK, and applies new…

Two of Loomerang’s co-founders: Vijay Roy, left, and Matt Koyama. (Loomerang Photo) Loomerang made its first sale less than 12 hours after it went live in June. A customer in Houston bought a shirt designed by Joe, an independent artist in Japan. Four months later, the Seattle-based marketplace for artist-designed T-shirts has 40 artists from 15 countries and recently expanded to India. Startup Spotlight Loomerang Vijay Roy, Matt Koyama, Arka Majumdar, CEO, President, CDO Founded 2024 · Seattle and Kolkata, India Funding raised Bootstrapped Employees 14 Favorite AI tool Claude and Chat GPT for coding. The art is always human.…

A new startup launched today with the definitely not terrifying mission of creating genetically enhanced dogs for the United States military, law enforcement, and emergency first responders.Warhound is the brainchild of Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and Colossal Biosciences cofounder Ben Lamm. The startup has raised $200 million to “rebuild America’s domestic supply of elite working dogs” and reduce dependency on European dog breeders for military canines.Lamm tells WIRED that Warhound is in the process of gene-editing its first batch of dogs. The startup has already collected blood samples from specific “top-performing” military, police, and first responder dogs in the United States,…

Jiaji Li and lead author Xiang Chang, a TJU PhD student and visiting researcher at CSAIL, used X-Hinges to create many clever devices. For example, they made a glove that can teach a robot how to grasp blocks. It adjusts to the size of a user’s hands, then records how the joints in their fingers bend via sensors before rapidly relaying that information to a humanoid hand to mimic it. The glove could be useful in factories or homes, where a robot often needs to learn new interactions quickly.The researchers also produced a small, origami-style lamp using X-Hinges. It senses…