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קיבלתי כמה בקשות להסביר, אז הנה חמש דקות על מה אנבדיה בונה, איך היא ניצחה את המתחרות והפכה לחברה עם השווי הגדול אי פעם ומה החלק של המנכ״ל המתפוטר ג׳נסן הואנג בכל זה:
בפשטות, אנבדיה היא חברה שמספקת מעבדים גרפיים. מעבד גרפי זה שבב יחסית ״טיפש״, שזה אומר שהוא לא מסוגל לבצע חישובים ופעולות מורכבים. אבל מצד שני, הוא מאוד מאוד יעיל בביצוע חישובים פשוטים ובמיוחד חישובים מקביליים (חישובים שהתוצאה שלהם לא תלויה בתוצאה של חישוב קודם, ולכן ניתן לבצע הרבה מהם במקביל).
כשאנבדיה הוקמה בשנות התשעים מעבדים גרפיים שימשו להרצה של משחקי מחשב, שהגרפיקה שלהם מחייבת חישוב מקבילי מהיר. אבל היום השימוש העיקרי הוא במודלי בינה מלאכותית.
מודלי בינה מלאכותית הם בגדול רשימה ארוכה מאוד של טריליוני מספרים (״משקולות״). תהליך הייצור של הרשימה נקרא אימון, והוא מצריך כמות בלתי נתפסת של חישובים (בערך טריליון כפול טריליון). גם ההרצה של המודל במענה על שאילתא מצריכה בערך טריליון חישובים. למזלנו, החישובים האלו פשוטים וניתן לבצע אותם במקביל, וזו הסיבה שיש ביקוש חסר תקדים למעבדים הגרפיים שאנבדיה מייצרת.
על פניו, נראה שיש פה סיפור של מזל בלבד - אנבדיה הייתה חברה חביבה שייצרה שבבים למשחקי מחשב ובמקרה התגלה שהם אידיאליים למנוע הצמיחה הכי גדול בעולם היום שזה בינה מלאכותית.
אבל אנבדיה היא לא החברה היחידה שייצרה מעבדים גרפיים ובדרכה לפסגה היא חלפה על פני חברות שבבים הרבה יותר מבוססות ועשירות כמו אינטל, גוגל ואיי-אמ-די. היא עשתה את זה בזכות סדרה של החלטות טובות וחזון ברור בהובלת ג׳נסן.
דוגמה טובה היא ההחלטה בתחילת שנות האלפיים לפתח את ״קודה״. אנבדיה דאז הייתה חברה יציבה ורווחית, ובכל זאת החליטה להשקיע משאבי עתק בפיתוח של שפת תכנות ואוסף כלים להנגיש את עולם החישוב המקבילי ליישומים שחורגים מגרפיקה.
ג׳נסן האמין שלחישוב מקבילי יש יתרונות מבניים שיהפכו אותו לעדיף על החלופות גם אם היישומים לא ברורים עדיין. זה גם מה שהוביל את אנבדיה לדחוף אקטיבית לפיתוח של בינה מלאכותית בעזרת הכלים שהיא הנגישה. כשעולם הבינה המלאכותית התפוצץ שאר חברות השבבים נתפסו בלתי מוכנות עם ההנגשה של התשתיות הנדרשות.
דוגמה נוספת היא הרכישה של חברת מלאנוקס הישראלית בסכום עתק של 7 מיליארד דולר ב-2019. בזמנו רבים חשבו שזה מחיר מופרז אבל היום יש שמחשיבים את הרכישה כעסקה עם התשואה הגבוהה בהיסטוריה.
אנבדיה השתמשה בטכנולוגיית התקשורת של מלאנוקס כדי לחבר את השבבים שלה זה לזה ויחד הם מתפקדים כסוג של ״סופר-שבב״. זה התברר כהכרחי לאימון והרצה של מודלי הענק שלא נכנסים לזיכרון של שבב בודד.
מי שהוביל ביד רמה את החברה מהקמתה ועד אתמול זה אדם אחד - ג׳נסן. הוא ידוע כמי שידו בכל - החל מהתערבות בכל פרט במפרט הטכני של השבב עצמו ועד הובלת רשת הקשרים, הספקים והלקוחות של שהפכו את אנבדיה לכמעט מונופול.
ג׳נסן דגל בגישה שוברת-היררכיה ועבד ישירות עם כל דרגי הארגון. אם תשאלו עובדים זוטרים מאנבדיה, רבים יספרו על אינטרקציה אישית עם ג׳נסן בסוגיות מקצועיות ואישיות.
מהזווית הישראלית, ג׳נסן חריג בעולם הטק בכך שלא נסוג מלדבר על ישראל בתקופת המלחמה. הוא כינה אותה ״הבית השני״ של החברה מחוץ לארה״ב והרבה לעסוק פומבית ופרטית בשחרור של עובד החברה אבינתן אור משבי חמאס.
חברות ענק הן לעולם לא מופע של איש אחד, אבל אין ספק שהעזיבה של ג׳נסן היא טלטלה גדולה לארגון שהזהות והתרבות הארגונית שלו מבוססים במידת רבה על דמותו של המנכ״ל.
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This week’s guest on the DANGER CLOSE Podcast is former Naval Intelligence Officer, global tech executive, and New York Times bestselling author M.P. Woodward @MPWauthor .
During his service with U.S. Pacific Command, Woodward developed strategic war games and deployed multiple times to the Persian Gulf and Far East, working alongside U.S. Special Operations Forces, the CIA, and NSA.
After leaving the military, he earned his MBA and built a career in the tech sector, eventually leading international distribution marketing for Amazon Prime Video. His work at the intersection of media, geopolitics, and technology now informs his acclaimed espionage novels, including THE HANDLER and DEAD DROP, and his contributions to the Tom Clancy universe.
In this episode, Jack and M.P. discuss his path from the Navy to the tech world, the lessons learned in uniform that translate to business, and how he approaches writing with both an operational and market-driven mindset. They dive into the research and process behind THE HANDLER, the strategic vulnerabilities explored in his upcoming standalone thriller RED TIDE, and the family and service themes woven into the novel. The conversation also touches on writing historical fiction, the art of a strong prologue, book cover design, and Tom Clancy’s legacy, along with a few detours into classic films, DARK WOLF, TRUE BELIEVER, and Land Cruisers.
Find our conversation and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the Jack Carr YouTube Channel.
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**STARRED** Review for RED TIDE from Kirkus excerpted here! "A bloody conflict erupts in the waters of the western Pacific. China seeks dominion over the South China Sea, and Americans must push back... Although the story is not part of a Tom Clancy series, it’s very much in that style. Indeed, Woodward has written for the Clancy franchise. There are spectacular battle scenes that will give fans of the genre heart palpitations. Plenty of excitement for fans of military fiction." ON SALE 23 SEPTEMBER!
Track your Christmas wishlists, purchases, and budgets with Muse! I made a Spaces tracker that’s fun and helpful to track your Christmas gift-giving. There’s a demo site to play with, and the prompt to build it is included.
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Elon Musk literally explained why he rented a whole data center to Anthropic, a rival lab he used to attack in public.
" Walter Isaacson asked him about it in the season debut of The Builders. "
> Musk says AI is "providing them with compute" that they really needed. (00:31)
- But before he rented it, he went and met a bunch of people at Anthropic to see if anyone set off his "evil detector." (01:10)
- Nobody did. Everyone he met was "very nice" and "conscientious," in his telling. (01:44)
- His one worry is the name. Reality, he says, is an irony maximizer. OpenAI is now closed. Stability AI is unstable. Mid journey is not mid. So a company called Anthropic has a good chance of being misanthropic. (02:50)
- Then he pitched his alternative to a regulator, which he says takes a long time to set up and writes rules too slowly. (04:57)
- The frontier labs get on a call once a week. A week before any release, rivals get access to the new model and try to break it. Competitors would keep each other honest, he says. (07:18)
- He plans to bring the idea to Anthropic. Asked about Sam Altman, he does not soften it: "so deceptive."
The deal is on the record. In May, Anthropic said it would take all of the compute at Colossus 1, AI's data center in Memphis.
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You can be wrong about many things in life. Don't be wrong about how to receive eternal life.
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Where did we come from & where are we going? To celebrate the release of the newly revised & updated edition of 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist', let's re-examine the scientific & philosophical evidence for the origin of the universe.
🤖 Made with AI
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7 observations:
1. Negative World is back with a vengeance.
2. Liberal Protestantism is also back.
3. The podcast bros left.
4. The economy was THE issue.
5. The Iran War is not popular.
6. Anti-Israel sentiment will only increase.
7. Evangelicals are disillusioned.
Negative World just returned.
Here's my new essay on why this happened and what we evangelicals can do going forward.
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Faith Fast Fact: Daily prayer has stopped falling — 44% of U.S. adults pray daily, down from 58% in 2007 but stable since 2021. — Pew Research, 2023-24
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everyone saw the election rally.. nobody did the math..
yesterday Wall Street partied over the midterm results.. the Dow jumped 1,580 points and the S&P 500 added 1.6%..
this morning more than $2 trillion walked back out the door in under an hour..
these 5 chip makers have a combined market value above $9 trillion..
every single chip maker on that list lost something specific to this vote..
WHO → LOST → WHY
Nvidia → $362 billion → sells the chips every AI data center runs on
TSMC → $177 billion → builds almost every one of those chips
Micron → $126 billion → the memory inside the same data centers
Broadcom → $123 billion → custom AI chips for big tech
AMD → $120 billion → the number 2 AI chip seller, down 15%
here's the catch..
every one of those chip makers is on that list because the party that just won both houses of Congress has members who ran on pausing new data centers..
the combined market value lost across those 5 chip makers is over $900 billion.. in one morning..
that's not a normal red day.. that's a $900 billion bill dressed up as a normal red day..
if Congress says yes to even half of it.. the AI building boom changes overnight..
if Congress says no.. 5 of the most powerful chip makers in the world lost $900 billion for nothing..
and markets will price that answer in real time.
the evening news will call this profit taking.. if you want the version without the spin, follow me..
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$2,500,000,000,000 wiped out from the US stock market in just 60 minutes.
Democrats just popped the AI bubble.
Starlink enables education in remote areas
Starlink is bringing internet access to remote classrooms in Indonesia
Katingan’s local government is distributing Starlink kits to preschools, elementary schools and junior high schools across areas where traditional internet remains weak or unavailable
In 2026, Katingan received 287 Starlink units in total
Of those, 174 were allocated to education including PAUD, elementary schools, junior high schools and regional education coordinators
For teachers and students, that means access to digital learning materials, online references and school services that were much harder to reach before
A single Starlink connection opens up an entire classroom to the world
Tesla self-driving gives mobility to seniors
Larry is 98 years old, and he bought a Tesla Model Y because of Full Self-Driving.
His first car was a 1931 Ford Model A. After 80 years behind the wheel, he says driving with Tesla FSD feels more relaxing. He even took his Model Y on a road trip to Colorado and called the drive “a breeze.”
For older drivers, that extra help can take some of the stress out of a busy drive across town. It can also make it easier to say yes to a weekend with the grandkids.
I love that Tesla is building technology that can help people stay independent as they get older. Being able to tell your family “I’ll come see you this weekend” and make the trip on your own schedule means a lot. ♥️
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Biden’s wide-open border didn’t just let people in. It built a permanent voting bloc that will shape American policy for decades.
Japan has spent 50 years being called xenophobic for protecting its borders.
Left-aligned globalist media and international bodies lectured Tokyo about accepting more refugees and loosening immigration, but last night is exactly why Japan should hold firm.
I'm Japanese. Watching your midterm results roll in on Tuesday night broke my heart.
Republicans lost ground. A wave of Muslim and radical leftists just won seats across your country.
Since Tuesday, my American friends keep asking me the same question.
How did Japan stay Japan?
In Tokyo, trains leave on the exact second.
Leave your phone on a cafe table, and it is still waiting an hour later. Every year, people in Tokyo turn in over 4 billion yen in lost cash to the police.
We didn't keep this by accident.
When warships forced Japan open in 1853, our ancestors made a vow. Japanese spirit, Western technique.
Take the steel, the railways, and the factories. Leave the self-hatred at the dock.
After 1945, leftists tried to make us hate our history. We refused.
We never let guilt become a state religion the way your universities did. Nobody taught our kids that our ancestors were evil, or that the family was a crime.
Foreigners are still just 3 percent of Japan. When globalists called us closed, we didn't care. We went back to work.
A border isn't just a wall. It is a people who refuse to apologize for who they are.
But you need to hear the second half of our story before it is too late.
Japan kept its culture. Yet we are dying anyway.
In 1949, 2.7 million Japanese babies were born. Last year, it dropped below 700,000.
The left didn't do this to us. Weak conservatives did.
For thirty years, our politicians protected zombie corporations and old voters while crushing young working men. You cannot raise a family on a part-time contract.
When young Japanese stopped having kids, our rural towns simply went quiet and empty.
In America, empty spaces do not stay empty.
Your system priced young Americans out of homes, marriage, and children. Your schools taught them to be ashamed of their own heritage.
At the exact same time, you opened the gates.
You brought in millions from the Islamic world who do not share your values. They have big families, and they have zero intention of assimilating.
They do not apologize for their religion or their culture. They are fiercely proud of it. And they vote as a tribe.
Once that happens, elections stop being about tax cuts.
Elections become a headcount.
A proud culture that has children will always outvote and replace an aging culture that hates itself.
Look at Tuesday night's map. That isn't just a bad midterm cycle. That is your country slipping away in real time.
Stop letting spineless politicians sell out your young people for cheap foreign labor and corporate donors.
You don't save a nation just by praising the past.
You save it by locking the gates, fighting for your own young families, and having children to hand your country to.
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Can supplements slow cognitive decline? I think a few show promise:
Omega-3s (EPA and DHA) - Important for neuronal membranes, brain function, and resolving inflammation. Higher omega-3 levels are associated with lower dementia risk.
Multivitamins - Daily multivitamins improved cognition in older adults in the COSMOS trials, with benefits equivalent to roughly 2 fewer years of global cognitive aging.
Vitamin D - Supplementation has been associated with a 40% lower dementia risk, while low vitamin D levels are linked to a 50 to 80% higher risk.
Creatine - 20 g/day for 8 weeks increased brain creatine by 11% and improved several cognitive measures in a small Alzheimer's pilot study. This one is promising, but preliminary.
Sulforaphane - Increases glutathione levels in the brain. Early trials also suggest cognitive benefits.
Exogenous ketones - Provide an alternative fuel for the brain, potentially compensating for impaired glucose metabolism in people with cognitive impairment.
None of these is proven to prevent dementia, but they represent promising approaches to supporting brain health through nutrition, energy metabolism, and inflammation regulation.
And remember, supplements should complement (not replace) the fundamentals like exercise, sleep, and metabolic health!




























