Bitcoin continues to pull back toward $76k, with the market waiting for tonight’s US CPI print. The threat quantum computing poses to Bitcoin — a sword that has hung overhead for a long time — has seen some fresh movement. ...
A fascinating and wildly imaginative project has appeared recently: tapeout.net. Put simply, it lets users create their own integrated circuit on-chain. From Transistors to CPUs Before getting into the project, some background on logic circuits is in order. Strip the casing off any chip product we use today and keep decomposing it, layer by layer, and you will find that it is ultimately built from one most basic component. That component is the transistor. ...
Here is what happened. On the evening of August 14, I was scrolling on my phone when I saw DeepSeek had shipped something new called Harness. Normally I am immune to “framework” releases — everybody ships a framework these days, each name more intimidating than the last. But I clicked in, and one slogan jumped out at me: Everything is a Plugin. I thought about it for a second. There is something to that phrase. I installed it that same night. ...
Last week, right after the official release of DeepSeek V4 Pro, they threw out something else called DeepSeek Harness. Its GitHub stars shot to 37,000 in three days. My first reaction was: DeepSeek is finally shipping its own Agent? I installed the developer preview immediately. Once it was installed, I was lost — this was nothing like what I imagined an Agent to be. There is no chat box where you say “write me a crawler.” Instead there is an empty workspace and a long list of plugins I could not make sense of. For a moment I suspected I had installed the wrong thing. ...
The first few months of 2023 marked a turning point for the metaverse. Just as web3 experts were transitioning to AI, Apple unveiled its groundbreaking device, the Vision Pro, for the metaverse. While renowned figures like Bill Gates had previously advocated for Microsoft to go all-in on the metaverse but then shifted their focus to AI, Mark Zuckerberg, who renamed his company Meta to align with the metaverse, admitted strategic missteps and announced layoffs for a transition. Influential voices and experts who were once avid supporters of Web3 and the metaverse quickly rebranded themselves as AI enthusiasts, proclaiming AI as the future to attract followers. ...