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macbook neo

a lower-budget laptop model announced by apple. aluminum design, 13-inch liquid retina display, apple silicon, starting price of $599. it comes in multiple color options and is aimed at students and people who don’t do heavy work on their laptops. it also claims up to 16 hours of battery life.

pavel durov

the guy who built vk, then walked away when the pressure came. built telegram the same way, refusing to hand over keys, moving the company around countries, staying stateless for years. he talks about privacy like it's non-negotiable, and somehow still runs one of the biggest messaging platforms without selling user data (???)

visual intelligence

it’s a feature on some iphone models that lets you use the camera to understand what’s around you. according to bloomberg’s mark gurman, apple ceo tim cook sees visual intelligence as the foundation for a new wave of ai powered wearables. think smart glasses, camera equipped airpods, even a wearable pendant. the idea is to give siri eyes, so it can actually see and interpret the world around you.

meta's multibillion dollar nvidia chip deal

meta and nvidia signed a deal for millions of ai chips. tens of billions of dollars. full tech stack deployment across meta's data centers. zuckerberg says it's for "personal superintelligence" which sounds like something from a sci-fi novel but is apparently the actual marketing term they're using now. getting blackwell gpus, rubin gpus, grace cpus, vera cpus, networking hardware. entire nvidia catalog basically. first time nvidia's arm-based chips are being deployed at this scale. meta's clearly trying to catch up in the ai arms race. openai has chatgpt, google has gemini, meta has... llama models that are good but not consumer-facing in the same way. nvidia must be absolutely printing money right now. every tech company needs their chips. no real competition. they're intel in the 90s except somehow with even more market dominance. the amount being spent on ai infrastructure is genuinely insane. either we're building something revolutionary or this will be studied in business schools as the biggest bubble since dot-com.

supabase

an open source based on postgresql developed as a substitute for firebase. using it because we had no time for backend. we didn’t have the luxury to build a proper backend, so i used it to complete a mid sized project with react. honestly, impressions are very positive. compared to firebase it’s much simpler, especially on the billing side, and noticeably cheaper. performance is solid. runs stable. documentation is clear and actually usable. the only downside is community size. outside of its subreddit, the ecosystem feels relatively small. not a huge crowd, fewer third party resources. still, for speed and practicality, it gets the job done.