Reid Burke

Apple:

Apple today announced a new multiyear commitment with Broadcom to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies for a wide range of Apple products. The new agreement, expected to exceed $30 billion, will lead to the production of more than 15 billion U.S.-made chips and support hundreds of American jobs.

Apple has been working with the administration and businesses across the U.S. to help create an end-to-end silicon supply chain in America, and today’s announcement advances those efforts.

Broadcom will produce advanced radio frequency components — including FBAR filters — and advanced wireless connectivity technologies at the Fort Collins facility.

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From Thin-film bulk acoustic resonator on Grokipedia:

Thin-film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) are widely employed in radio frequency filters and duplexers due to their ability to provide high-quality factor operation, low insertion loss, and compact size, making them essential components in wireless communication front-ends.

Duplexers, which simultaneously support transmit and receive paths while isolating them, represent a primary application of FBAR technology, particularly in handset antennas operating at frequencies from 900 MHz to over 5 GHz. 

Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), User Privacy, Core Operating Systems (Core OS), Services Engineering (ASE), and Machine Learning and AI (AIML):

Alongside the next generation of Apple Intelligence, today we’re expanding Private Cloud Compute (PCC) beyond Apple’s data centers. 

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What’s new with PCC on Google Cloud is the implementation: NVIDIA Confidential Computing with NVIDIA GPUs, Intel CPUs with TDX, and Google’s Titan chip. On this foundation, Apple and Google collaborated to build capabilities that go far beyond a traditional confidential computing deployment.

Mario Zechner, creator of Pi which is the agent inside OpenClaw:

I’m a simple boy, so I like simple things. Agents can run Bash and write code well. Bash and code are composable. So what’s simpler than having your agent just invoke CLI tools and write code? This is nothing new. We’ve all been doing this since the beginning. I’d just like to convince you that in many situations, you don’t need or even want an MCP server. Let me illustrate this with a common MCP server use case: browser dev tools.

Mario proceeds to use Puppeteer Core to create the composable tools he needs with minimal token overhead.

I am still asked why I often skip MCP integrations in mid-2026. I’ll start referring folks to Mario’s thoughts on it: inefficient, hard to extend, and not composable. Simple is good.

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