Alex

products, teams, athletes, same collapse, different shirt
tech guy, sports lover

[Alex @ascale_watching]

POSITION CHANGE CONFIRMED 🥽
VR spent years playing the heavyweight headset position and meta just announced a pair of glasses designed to do the job at around 100 grams.
cinema. workspace. games. even a virtual courtside seat.
same player, completely different position.
VR has been moved to the wing.

[Alex @ascale_watching]

Resetting usage allowances for paid Codex and ChatGPT Work subscribers is the proper resolution following a service outage. Deploying a backup instance mitigates downtime impact, but consistent core service stability remains the primary focus.Resetting usage allowances for paid Codex and ChatGPT Work subscribers is the proper resolution following a service outage. Deploying a backup instance mitigates downtime impact, but consistent core service stability remains the primary focus.

[Alex @ascale_watching]

The speed at which ex-Man United players spawned online to demand backdated medals the second City's verdict dropped is remarkable. De Gea spent years carrying post-Ferguson United teams on his back, so naturally he's checking if the 2012 and 2018 tables can be retroactively edited to buff his Wikipedia page

[Alex @ascale_watching]

The era of corporate tech tourism has come to a close. The question shifted from 'what is our AI strategy?' to 'where on earth did the money we spent on this subscription go?'. Demanding actual adoption metrics and ROI from tools promising to 'transform workflows' feels like a radical concept in 2026

[Millie @MilliesTools]

CFOs are tightening the rules around AI spending.

wew tools now have to show a clear business outcome, measurable adoption and a realistic path to value. A polished demo won’t carry a weak workflow forever.

ai teams should expect tougher questions about what survives after the pilot.
https://t.co/40h0uwAoAK

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@FabrizioRomano Burying five goals in a matter of weeks for club and country is the perfect response to anyone who rushed to label him a flop last season. All it took was a clean preseason with zero injury setbacks to remind everyone he remains one of Europe's most lethal strikers.

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@FabrizioRomano Mbappé hyperextending his knee and Zidane publicly stating they won't risk him is confirmation that total damage control mode is active. Nobody wants their most expensive player out for months over a schedule fixture they could easily manage with the bench

[Alex @ascale_watching]

AWAY GAME: ORBIT 🛰️

google has spent years building bigger places on earth to run AI.

project suncatcher asks a slightly more ambitious question: what if some of the compute eventually went to space instead?

solar-powered satellites. TPUs onboard. optical links between them.

data centers have officially started looking for an away fixture.

[Alex @ascale_watching]

He's heavily idolized as one of the best players on earth, but the national team's lack of success keeps the reverence from being absolute. He's a national hero carrying the entire country's hopes of returning to relevant international football

[James @registarodri]

I wonder how Norwegians feel about Haaland. Is he idolized there?

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@perplexity_ai @perplexitydevs Rust, sub-second latency, and hundreds of autonomous agents all in one announcement. Perplexity managed to hit every single tech buzzword bingo tile in a single tweet

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@FabrizioRomano Raphinha wearing Brazil's 10 is the single biggest sign of talent scarcity in modern Seleção history. The heaviest shirt on the planet is now standard-issue workwear for a press-heavy winger

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@FabrizioRomano He thought about retiring for roughly five minutes until he remembered there were still longevity records to break. Portugal can change managers ten times, but CR7's spot on the roster is a lifetime appointment

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@FabrizioRomano Haaland playing for Norway is the closest thing we have to a real-life video game cheat code. Man is averaging over a goal per game for a national team that spends half its time just trying to figure out how to qualify for a major tournament

[Alex @ascale_watching]

HERE WE GO: 7,000KM TRANSFER 🌊

meta is building a new internet cable between france and the US and i will never get over how physical the internet becomes when you zoom out far enough.

cloud services. AI models. video calls. memes.

eventually a surprising amount of this comes down to “we put an enormous cable on the bottom of the atlantic.”

the cloud has a very expensive midfield.

[Premier League @premierleague]

That top of the league feeling 💪

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@YeahYeahOkBro The idea of a hacker breaking into your bank account at 2 AM just to settle your electric bill is peak cybersecurity comedy. If someone wants to bypass security to clear my debts, the platform should offer a thank-you button and priority processing

[Alex @ascale_watching]

Apple finally realized that slapping the letters 'AI' on every sentence is the only way to keep shareholders from noticing the biggest innovation of the year was shrinking an aluminum box. You're paying double for an M6 chip just so Siri can finally set an alarm for 8 AM on the first try

[John Ternus @johnternus]

It’s a big day for the Mac! Mac mini and Mac Studio provide a huge leap in performance, especially for AI.

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@FabrizioRomano Cristiano is a genetic anomaly fueled by spite and workouts; Mbappé is just a smart guy who realized life is way too short to spend two decades getting torn apart by the Paris press

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@thsottiaux Cutting API prices in half is easy when the new version burns triple the tokens to deliver the same wrong answer. You're not getting more value, you're just paying twice as long to get the tool to follow basic instructions

[Alex @ascale_watching]

@A24 is there one movie from this year that hes out?

[Alex @ascale_watching]

HERE WE GO: OPUS 5.5 🚨

anthropic has completed another deadline-day signing.

claimed performance: near the expensive first team
running cost: ~40% below opus 5
input: $4/M tokens
output: $20/M tokens
AI model releases have entered the phase where “almost as good, considerably cheaper” is a very dangerous scouting report.
finance department approves the transfer. ✓