Daily Links, Jan 21st 2025

AI

• The Stargate Project, a $500Bn investment in AI infrastructure arrived today. OpenAI have an annoucement post.

• MIT Technology review published an interesting piece on how they see the next wave of AI Coding.

• Huawei are pushing into developing chips for inference according to the Financial Times [paywall]. This should be viewed as part of a wider set of strategic moves by the Chinese Government in response to various legislative actions, including the recent Framework for Artifical Intelligence Diffusion [pdf]. Expect to see much more of this in coming year. SemiAnalysis has a fantastic and detailed read on the framework.

Security

• Google released OSV-SCALIBR an extensible SCA library, that is used internally at Google. It will form part of the wider osv.dev project.

General Interest

• My former colleague at Redmonk, Stephen O’Grady, published a list of the four most common Open Source Discussion Archetypes. Having run into developers, commerical open source vendors, open source project authors and open source conservationist this post is very on point.

Data Points

• The 20th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report arrived, with some mind boggling stats on scale of DDoS attacks they observe.