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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-02-04.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ Adobe hits Ctrl+Z on Animate's death sentence, putting the tool in 'maintenance mode' instead.
▸ Positron secures a massive $230M bag to take a swing at Nvidia's crown.
▸ Nvidia's rumored $100B OpenAI investment vanishes into thin air.
The chip wars just got a new combatant. Backed by the Qatar Investment Authority, Positron raised a Series B war chest to build AI infrastructure that might actually rival the Green Team.
Bullying works? After a massive outcry over the planned execution of Adobe Animate, the creative giant reversed course. It's not 'dead' anymore, just resting in 'maintenance mode.'
Remember that market-shaking rumor about Nvidia dumping $100B into OpenAI? Five months later, it seems to have fizzled out completely, leaving us wondering if it was ever real or just a hallucination.
Not content to let Nvidia have all the fun, Intel is bulking up a new team to build GPUs specifically designed around customer needs. A bold strategy: actually listening to customers.
We've moved past syntax and logic into the era of 'vibe coding'—where you guide an LLM by feel rather than by function. It's semi-unhinged, surprisingly effective, and might be the future of software development for better or worse.
Formal verification promises bug-free code, but what happens when the provers themselves are broken? A fascinating look at the fragility of the tools we trust to prove our software is correct.
Google wants to build a checkout button directly into Gemini, but Senator Elizabeth Warren has questions. Specifically: are you going to use our shopping habits to train the model that sells us more stuff?
A massive toolkit connecting the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Ghidra. With 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering, dissecting malware just got a lot more interesting.
A new paper proposing 'Tensorized Attention' to further optimize transformer performance. If you thought FlashAttention was fast, wait until you see what happens when you decompose the tensors.
Cloudflare's object storage now supports local uploads, cutting request duration by up to 75%. It writes data to a nearby location first, then copies it to your bucket asynchronously.
The Bundesliga club is using OpenAI's tech to 'scale efficiency and creativity.' No word yet on if it can play midfield or explain the offside rule.
A poignant lament from the front page of Hacker News about the cognitive atrophy of the AI era. Are we trading our ability to think deeply for the ability to generate quickly?