Mark Kretschmann

This is awesome: German band "MEUTE" plays techno music with analog instruments (brass, drums, etc).

It sounds fantastic and is a lot of fun! 🎶

Google is stepping up its challenge to Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware. Today, @Google unveiled two new TPU variants designed for specialized AI workloads.

The TPU 8tx targets secure AI computing for governments and regulated industries, delivering up to 2x the performance of its predecessor. The TPU 8i Max is designed for demanding workloads like coding agents, mathematical reasoning, and long-context AI applications.

Google is also expanding access to its TPUs beyond its own infrastructure, including a partnership with Oracle to bring them to Oracle Cloud in 2027.

Anthropic is reportedly spending $3.4 billion just to make sure its data centers have power. The Financial Times says @AnthropicAI secured commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of natural gas generators from Texas supplier OnePWR in late September. The deal also reportedly includes engineering and construction support to install them.

Buying more GPUs only gets you so far if you can’t turn them on. At this scale, getting electricity sooner can mean bringing an entire data center online sooner. That’s what makes this deal so interesting: Anthropic is willing to spend billions to get more control over when that happens.

Has anyone else have this happen on X web:

You type in a reply, but then when you send it, it's truncated and only the first few letters are there?

Very odd problem, it happens from time to time.

New release of Flea, the file manager for @omarchy: