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Alibaba's DAMO Academy has pulled off something that matters for the long game in chip independence — getting Android sixteen running on its homegrown RISC-V processors. The XuanTie nine-series silicon is now running Google's latest mobile operating system, a signal that the open RISC-V architecture is maturing fast, and that China is serious about building a full software stack independent of Western chip designs.
Shifting to the AI conversation, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah found himself at odds with Pope Leo the Fourteenth after the pontiff's encyclical warned against treating machine intelligence as equivalent to human intelligence. The Pope argued these systems merely imitate certain human functions — a philosophical line Olah, who has spent his career probing what neural networks actually do internally, apparently pushed back on. It's a rare moment where theology and interpretability research collide in the same room.
And in the crypto markets, XRP is stuck in a narrowing range, hovering near one dollar and thirty-two cents after another failed attempt to break above one dollar and thirty-six cents. Traders are watching the compression closely — when price action tightens like this for months, the eventual move in either direction tends to be sharp. The question is simply which way.
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