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Kevin Bloch

@KevinBloch

Founder, Bloch Advisory, Former CTO Cisco

 Sydney
Joined June 2008
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Anthropic employees’ agents logged 6x the hours of the people running them by August, while junior roles make up a shrinking share of the company’s technical hiring. tinyurl.com/58v333tb
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Wholesale industrial power contracts for terrestrial DCs costs $70- $110 per mW hr. Lifting solar panels, battery banks etc into low Earth orbit costs >$1,800 per mW h amortised over the operating lifespan of the satellite. So don't hold your breath tinyurl.com/mw4mmz4j
Google Launched TPUs to Orbit Today. Physics Shuts Them Down in 15 Minutes.

Google Launched TPUs to Orbit Today. Physics Shuts Them Down in 15 Minutes.

Project Suncatcher deployed four Trillium chips this morning, but zero convective airflow forces the hardware to idle 75% of every orbit…

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It took lots than 18mths for AI to outperform jnr Accountants. Faster, more accurate. tinyurl.com/mueyyfp3

AI vs. Accountants: Frontier Models Outscore CPAs | Mercor

We tested 12 licensed CPAs against frontier AI on APEX-Accounting tasks. AI was faster, more accurate, and 10x cheaper. Here's what we found.

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Open models surpass Closed models - implications are technical+commercially+geopolitical tinyurl.com/jxcp37ju
China's AI Investment Threats US Dominance | Mike Mastroyiannis posted on the topic | LinkedIn

China's AI Investment Threats US Dominance | Mike Mastroyiannis posted on the topic | LinkedIn

AI’s Trillions-Dollar Bubble? Is China Eating America’s AI Lunch? The AI revolution is real. But the investment thesis behind today’s extraordinary valuations deserves a much tougher examination....

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Anthropic just replaced Git because Claude writes code so fast it broke version control at 30,000 merges a day. So what?: AI agents are now the primary users of dev infrastructure. What was built for human scale needs a rethink tinyurl.com/2s466evz
Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.

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Someone just vibe coded the entire Adobe Suite. Photoshop, Lightroom, even an After Effects replacement. Adobe impact? Sw industry impact? Serious tinyurl.com/az7w3ynh
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AppleInsider.com

Vibe-coded alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop and Premiere have been released. They may help Mac users save money, but there are some nuances to the situation.

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BlochBytes Newsletter #21 - Nvidia GTC Insights, Internet traffic for Fixed & Mobile, Global GenAI adoption bit.ly/44SXSA7
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Checkout my summary of @Nvidia GTC Insights. For more see bit.ly/44SXSA7
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Checkout my summary of @Nvidia GTC announcements. See next for Insights. For more see bit.ly/44SXSA7
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Telco vendors under immense pressure. Partnering with cloud who typically have larger networks and functionality. Potential threat (?!) Read more at blochadvisory.com/insights
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Pure play enterprise vendors have disappeared, few remain. Read more at blochadvisory.com/insights
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4 waves of disruption, changing enterprise networking - #Cloud #5G #Optical #LEO . Read more at blochadvisory.com/insights
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Enterprise network has changed. Why build? blochadvisory.com/insights
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"Hardware, the forgotten son" - Bloch Bytes Newsletter Apr 2023 linkedin.com/pulse/hardware-… via @LinkedIn
Hardware, the forgotten son

Hardware, the forgotten son

“The number of people predicting the death of Moore’s Law doubles every two years.” Peter Lee, Vice President at Microsoft Research, LINK Less than a decade ago, to watch TV, you’d go to your lounge...

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"With 4G, everyone benefited, except for the operators", Bôrje Ekholm, President CEO Ericsson @EricssonNetwork @commsday #BlochAdvisory
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Check out my latest article: Amazon sheds $1T  | Market shakes  |  Bank of Apple linkedin.com/pulse/amazon-sh… via @LinkedIn
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Top10 ICT Trends 2022: #5 Telecoms: hyperscale telco transformation #network #ai #security #cloud #BlochAdvisory blochadvisory.com/itc-trends…
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Had to happen: @Telstra @TPG spectrum MOCN sharing announcement. Current situation unsustainable - more change ahead predicted in: blochadvisory.com/itc-trends… #5G #BlochAdvisory
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Top10 ICT Trends 2022: #2 Mobile - "#5G becomes mainstream, more open and chews into fixed line services". For the Top10 see bit.ly/3gBvXww #network #ai #security #cloud
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Sort of. Is #5G a network? The “network” is being redefined. #BlochAdvisory
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No Network No Cloud ☁️ #WeAreCisco
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