• Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million opposing California's demented billionaire tax. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The article says the tax would cost Brin $13 billion, but if so they have revised it. The original language would have hit Brin and Google co-founder Larry Page particularly hard due to how voting rights are assigned for their shares, sending his tax liabilities soaring to around $50 billion.
  
  
  
• Speaking of demented billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg wrote an essay on why we should be thankful for AI. (Tech Crunch)
  
  And managed to make a convincing case... For the opposition.
  
  
  

Tech News

• TSMC can sidestep its $1 billion worth of Apple ASICs awaiting memory supplies by... Making more AI chips? (WCCFTech)
  
  What?
  
  
  
• TSMC doesn't have $1 billion worth of Apple ASICs awaiting memory supplies. (WCCFTech)
  
  Supplies!
  
  
  
• Meta's new Muse Glimmer model provides an always-on AI model that can run on consumer hardware. (Meta)
  
  All you need is a $5000 graphics card. And to run the model in quantized (half-precision or less) mode.
  
  You do have a $5000 graphics card, don't you?
  
  
  
• Sorry, I meant $7000 graphics card. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You snoozed, you losed.
  
  
  
• Windows 11's built-in weather app uses 1.2GB of RAM all by itself. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fire, for the killing with.
  
  
  

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Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, August 12 2026 12:05 AM (6eVrQ)

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