8 June 2026

13 links · Monday

AI Is Slowing Down

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Apple Intelligence and Siri

Next-generation Apple Intelligence and Siri AI bring helpful features to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.

Xiaomi MiMo, Explore and Love

MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.

Working with product managers

The relationship engineers have with product management is more dysfunctional than with any other part of the company. There’s no shared culture or language like there is with other engineers, and the rules of “who gets to tell who what to do” aren’t as clear-…

DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

DeepSeek V4 Pro wins this head-to-head by being more exact where it matters: following instructions, matching schemas, and solving edge cases cleanly. GPT-5.5 Pro is still strong, but it gave away points with avoidable deviations.

Dopamine Fracking

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit