• AI companies led by OpenAI and Anthropic say they're definitely not going to put hundreds of millions of people out of work so please don't lynch them.  (MSN)
  
  Sorry, best I can do is a meteor strike.
  
  
  
• Companies making the heaviest use of AI are...  Hiring the most humans?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Everyone gets a meteor strike!

• Xbox is a disaster.  (The Verge)
  
  A few years ago Microsoft went on a massive acquisition spree, throwing billions of dollars at individual studios with legendary game titles under their belts.
  
  Since which time they ain't produced squat.
  
  The only thing keeping them alive is Sony, which has challenged Microsoft in a race to the bottom.
  
  
  
• Samsung's profit in 2026 is projected to exceed its cumulative profits for the past forty years.  (WCCFTech)
  
  No they're not.  The projected and actual profits relate only to the semiconductor division of the corporate group.
  
  On the other hand, they're expecting to make $200 billion this year.  That puts Korean national plans for $1 trillion in tech industries into perspective.
  
  
  
• The latest version of the TypeScript compiler, which translates TypeScript into JavaScript, is now ten times faster.  (InfoWorld)
  
  After being rewritten in Go, because both the source and destination languages suck.

Posted by: Robin Munn at Monday, July 06 2026 07:07 PM (Hd3OR)

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, July 07 2026 02:07 AM (8cApG)

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