The Neural Daily 2026-10-30: Trillion-Dollar Dreams & Chip Spies
From Amazon’s trillion-dollar cloud ambitions and Microsoft’s brutal workforce "optimizations" to a high-stakes Chinese espionage ring targeting Nvidia, the line between big tech and statecraft is blurring. We also dive into the "gated" future of the open web, the rise of Gemini 4 Carbon, and OpenAI's latest battle to keep their models from escaping the sandbox. Topics covered: AWS, DuckDB, Anthropic, Nvidia, Megaspeed, Qwen, Project Meridian, Gemini 4 Carbon, GPT-6.1 Terra, Andromeda ads engine, IceCube
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