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The Trump administration wrapped up what it's calling a Super Intelligence summit, and the headline coming out of it is a document called the White House Accord on Superintelligence. Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, and XAI all signed on, but here's the catch — it's entirely non-binding, vague by design, and effectively lets the companies regulate themselves. Critics are calling it a handshake with no grip.
That story connects directly to a question one writer is asking out loud this week — why didn't GitHub Copilot win? The piece argues that despite being first to market with an AI coding assistant backed by Microsoft, Copilot lost ground to faster-moving competitors. It's a useful case study in how early advantage doesn't guarantee dominance when the underlying technology is moving this quickly.
And on a quieter but genuinely interesting note, someone dropped a link to the Wikipedia page for Radiofax — the decades-old technology still used today to transmit weather charts over shortwave radio. No internet required, no servers, no subscriptions. Sometimes the oldest tool in the shed turns out to be the most resilient one.
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