>be Chang Liu
>senior system electrical engineer at Apple
>8 years working on iphone
>january 2026: leave Apple to join OpenAI
>apple asks for laptop back
>ignore them
>lmao it’s my laptop now
>within HOURS of leaving
>message Yu-Ting “Alyssa” Peng, friend at Apple:
Liu: “I still have another computer”
>uses it to access Apple secret info
>within weeks, use HER Apple work laptop
>february 9: try Apple’s network storage
>cloud repo of confidential engineering files
>authentication bug. still works!
>message Peng: “LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny”
Peng: “I’m ready”
>while developing hardware for OpenAI
>download DOZENS of confidential files
>including a thousand-plus-page compilation of technical files
>including MLB (main logic board) manufacturing + testing presentations
>send Peng links to Apple’s proprietary folders
>point her to specific project data
>coach her how to copy files “to avoid trouble with the security team”
>tell her which confidential Apple materials to study before her OpenAI interview
>warn her another guy “fumbled” Tang Tan’s questions about a secret Apple project
>“download some info” for her to review
>tell her: switch to LINE Messenger so nobody sees this
>she gets the OpenAI offer, leaves Apple April 16
>meanwhile every message was left on APPLE-ISSUED WORK LAPTOPS
>july 10: Apple Inc. v. Chang Liu
>named first. before OpenAI. before Tang Tan
LOL
so funny
Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability.
For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.
What a fucking photo.
Hung Cao’s family fled the Vietnamese communists as refugees.
He returns to meet with the Vietnamese communists as emissary of the most powerful empire in world history, acting Secretary of the United States Navy.
It’s like a biblical story. Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery and he returns to them as the powerful representative of the Pharaoh
Amazing
In 1939, Jawaharlal Nehru visited Rabindranath Tagore to ask if Jana Gana Mana could become India's national anthem. A statistician was in the room.
That statistician, P.C. Mahalanobis, would go on to build the system that let a newly independent nation of 350 million people see itself clearly for the first time.
In 1950, nobody knew what the average Indian ate. Or earned. Or whether they had work. Policy ran on guesswork.
Mahalanobis changed that.
He built the National Sample Survey, which knocked on thousands of doors and asked, item by item: what did you eat last month? Rice, dal, cooking oil, fuel, clothing.
Harold Hotelling, then among the foremost statisticians in the world, wrote that no sampling technique developed anywhere could "compare in accuracy" with what Mahalanobis had built.
This is the story of how India built, then lost, and is slowly rebuilding the infrastructure of national self-knowledge.
Issue 4: The Making of Indian Statistics, written by @jainhiya_ , designed & built by @AltCarbonIndia
https://t.co/MdIvN1hXhC
Just to be clear, if you remove Fable which is unavaialble, GLM-5.2 (Max) is the #1 model in the world for frontend coding.
This is a huge moment. OSS has caught up with proprietary, and China has caught up with the US, in this very important domain.