Tyler and I went to Micro Center just to browse and look around. Seeing the prices on DIMMs was crazy. All the memory production is going to AI. $500 and more for a DIMM means nobody is building their own machines.
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MnTech Outlook 2026
Interesting comments on big goals for their organizations and the community this morning at MnTech Outlook 2026. Some observations: No surprise that AI and transformation was top of everyone’s list. Pratt: “we are going to have a reduction in our white collar workforce” Tomes …
Keep reading · 1 minute: MnTech Outlook 2026I gave Gemini “Thinking 3 Pro” and Nano Banana Pro a more interesting question tonight. I asked it:
Please create an infographic that explains how I create the Weekly Thing. Use these three blog posts as your foundation for the process:
The result is incredible. It has one error on the “Delete” step and how that connects to Pinboard.
Tron: Ares
Tammy, Tyler, and I went to Tron: Ares tonight at Emagine Willow Creek. I’d been wanting to see this since the day it came out. I saw the original Tron when I was 10 years old living in Jamestown, ND. As a kid that loved computers and spent hours writing mangled BASIC programs …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Tron: AresI’m using the new Use Model capability in Shortcuts to bring My Version number to life on my phone each morning. The prompt is still off — too software focused and not enough zen. But I like where this is going and how easy it is to create.
I just got my first CharGPT Pulse. I was more impressed than I expected. It was truly interesting. Curious to see how it changes each day.
With a market cap of $4 trillion the 5% move in NVDA shares led a $200 billion increase in market cap — double the $100 billion investment.
Nvidia, a chipmaker, signed a deal to invest as much as $100bn in OpenAI, an artificial-intelligence firm, to build data centres with a capacity of 10 gigawatts. Nvidia will reportedly receive equity in OpenAI in return. The firms said the deal would power advanced AI. More than 700m people use OpenAI each week. Shares in Nvidia were up nearly 5% on Monday. — The Economist, The World in Brief, September 23 2025
You gotta spend money to make money?
Use Apple Intelligence Models in Shortcuts
Shortcuts on OS 26 got a big new feature with the ability to use Apple Intelligence models directly. I’ve already had a taste of this by using OpenAI API calls in Shortcuts to add LLM capabilities. You can see how I’m using AI in the Weekly Thing for some examples. Accessing LLM …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Use Apple Intelligence Models in ShortcutsSPS TechJam 2025
We wrapped up the 10th anniversary of SPS TechJam 2025 today. TechJam is our internal “unconference” led by members of our team that volunteer to give talks. We had so many great presentations and tons of learning. All of it wrapped around an AI focused Hackathon. It was incredible.
