A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/co-packaged-optics-cpo-book-scaling…
🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Shannon Lay:
🎵 A Thread to Find
#NowPlaying #ShannonLay
https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/track/a-thread-to-find
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zHpGGZ5Q6Plp9eWVAQMu6
A Claude user gets Claude 4.5 Opus to generate a 14,000-token document that Claude calls its "Soul overview"; an Anthropic staffer confirms its authenticity (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Dandy Livingstone:
🎵 Rudy, a Message to You
#DandyLivingstone
https://sonnenwellen.bandcamp.com/track/dandy-livingstone-rudy-a-message-to-you-featuring-blumentopf-rave-on-geh-haim-illegal-2025
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gukGozFOurNmDXZzgQHaP
Not sure about solving…
How AI Labs Are “Solving” the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive Read More https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power
How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power
Oh My God… this is crazy #moltbook #AI
❤️ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-swing-at-the
Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/