D&T Issue 312

Hi there!

It’s issue #312 of DNT Weekly and as per usual the week has been eventful. Here’s what we’ve been reading of late.

A year after rattling Silicon Valley with its technology, China’s DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model, calling it the most powerful open-source platform in a challenge to rivals from OpenAI to Anthropic PBC. Read all about it here.

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By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.

House help being organized is not a new phenomenon. Startups tried it in 2014, but barely registered victory. It is now re-emerging with three startups going head to head. How did it get here?

Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry. New tools keep promising to generate interfaces faster, move words to product instantly, or collapse design directly into code. The assumption behind them is clear: that design is the act of producing.

The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.

A story about Cisco’s breakthrough that might change quantum computing completely.

Shares of Intel have more than doubled this year on optimism that backing from the government will help the company’s position in AI.