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AMD acquires Enosemi to enter photonics race — chasing Nvidia into light-based interconnect tech
AMD has acquired Enosemi, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in silicon photonics, to enhance its AI hardware capabilities. Silicon photonics uses light to transmit data, offering faster and more efficient communication between chips, which is crucial for advanced AI systems. This acquisition is part of AMD’s strategy to compete with Nvidia and strengthen its position in the AI market. Enosemi’s expertise in photonic integrated circuits will help AMD develop next-generation AI infrastructure.
Trump and Musk praise each other at Farewell News Conference. The president said Musk would continue advising him as the billionaire returns to the private sector.
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Eliminate Half of Entry-Level White-Collar Jobs Within Five Years
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out as much as half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years — a dire projection delivered as companies across industries accelerate job cuts amid deepening structural shifts and economic pressure.
How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Rewrites the Rules of Search
For over two decades, SEO was the default playbook for visibility online. It spawned an entire industry of keyword stuffers, backlink brokers, content optimizers, and auditing tools, along with the professionals and agencies to operate them. But in 2025, search has been shifting away from traditional browsers toward LLM platforms.
A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding
Thinkst, the South African cybersecurity firm behind Canary, has reached $20 million in annual recurring revenue without any venture capital. Their success comes from focusing on a simple, effective product that alerts companies to intrusions quickly. By avoiding rapid growth and prioritizing customer needs, they’ve maintained long-term client relationships.
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Former OpenAI safety researcher, Lilian Weng, explores how giving AI models more time to “think” during testing can improve their reasoning. She draws parallels to human cognition, highlighting that deliberate, slow thinking often leads to better decisions. Techniques like Chain-of-Thought (CoT) allow models to process information more deeply, adapting the amount of computation based on task complexity.
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Milton Friedman points out the remarkable degree of cooperation between people from many different countries, who’ve never even met, to make what appears to be a very simple product – a pencil. The free market encourages cooperation between strangers. And the end result is that we all benefit – in this case, by having pencils to use.