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  Tech-Reader AI Digest Friday, April 17, 2026 #AI   #TechNews   #Digest Story 1: The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow Investigation Into Sam Altman — Character Evidence, 10 Days Before Trial What happened:  The New Yorker published a major investigative profile of  Sam Altman  by  Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz  on April 6 — and it's still generating significant coverage as the trial date closes in. Farrow spent 18 months on the investigation, reviewing never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtaining over 200 pages of documents related to a close Altman colleague, and interviewing more than 100 people. The print-ready deep dive and a Verge Q&A with Farrow both landed today. (Source:  New Yorker / The Verge / WBUR Here & Now ) The piece presents the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted by the OpenAI board in November 2023 — and asks directly whether the board members who concluded he "lacked integrity" were right. Legal analy...

  The Secret Life of AWS: Regions and Availability Zones Where your code actually lives — and why it matters #AWS   #CloudComputing   #Regions   #AvailabilityZones Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They meet in a grand Victorian library in London — and in every episode, they work through the tools, ideas, and infrastructure that power modern software. Today, Timothy discovers that the cloud has an address. Episode 6 Timothy arrived early, notebook already open on the table, pen uncapped and waiting. He had the focused stillness of someone who had been thinking about a question for several days and had finally decided to ask it. "I built something last week," he said. "Small — a simple API, nothing production, just practice. And I noticed something." He looked at her. "The region selector. Top right corner of the Console. I had selected US East — Northern Virginia — because it was the default. Because it was there." He...

  The Secret Life of AI: The Rage Quit How to prompt, think, and get results from any AI tool #WorkingWithAI   #Prompting   #AIConfidence Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — and in every episode, they'll show you exactly how to get what you want from AI. Episode 5 Timothy arrived on a Wednesday, which was unusual. Their conversations had settled into a Thursday rhythm without either of them planning it. Margaret noted the day but said nothing as he sat down, unwound his scarf with slightly more force than necessary, and looked at the table rather than at her. "I closed the laptop," he said. Margaret waited. "Three days ago. I haven't opened it since. Not for AI work, anyway." He looked up. "I know what you're going to say." "You don't," she said pleasantly. "Tell me what happened." The Brilliant-Then-Terrible Sequence "I was work...

  Tech-Reader AI Digest Thursday, April 16, 2026 #AI   #TechNews   #Digest Story 1: TSMC Crushes It — Record Profit, Blowout Guidance, and CC Wei Says AI Demand Is "Extremely Robust" What happened:   TSMC  reported Q1 2026 earnings early this morning — and the numbers exceeded every estimate. Revenue came in at  $35.90 billion , beating the guided range of $34.6-$35.8 billion and representing a  40.6% year-over-year increase  in US dollar terms. Net income hit  NT$572.48 billion (~$18.06 billion)  — a  58.3% year-over-year jump  and the company's fourth consecutive record-breaking quarter. EPS came in at  NT$22.08 (~$3.49 per ADR) , beating the consensus estimate of $3.29. (Source:  TSMC SEC Form 6-K / CNBC / Sherwood News / Investing.com ) The margin story is the headline within the headline.  Gross margin reached 66.2%  — well above the guided range of 63-65% and the consensus of 64.5%. Operating margin hi...

  The Secret Life of AWS: The Invisible Thread (AWS X-Ray) How to track requests across a decoupled event-driven architecture using distributed tracing #AWS   #XRay   #Observability   #DevOps Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — the kind of place where code quality is the unspoken objective, and craftsmanship is the only thing that matters. Episode 66 Timothy had six different browser windows open, each displaying a different stream of raw text. He was scrolling through his CloudWatch logs with a look of sheer exhaustion. He turned his monitor toward Margaret as she walked into the studio. "A VIP customer reported that their checkout took almost five seconds yesterday," Timothy explained, rubbing his eyes. "The API Gateway WebSockets worked perfectly, and the order eventually succeeded, but the latency was terrible. I have been looking through the logs for an hour and I have no ide...