OpenAI's $300B deal 💰, Starlink mobile carrier 🛰️, custom sort algos 👨‍💻

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The deal, which far outstrips OpenAI's current revenue, is one of the largest cloud contracts ever signed. It will require 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity, the amount consumed by roughly four million homes. Oracle's share price recently surged, increasing its Chairman Larry Ellison's wealth by more than $100 billion. OpenAI and Oracle's contract will start in 2027. Elon Musk Mulls Making Starlink a 'Global Carrier' After EchoStar Deal (9 minute read) Elon Musk said during a podcast on Tuesday night that Starlink could become a mobile carrier. SpaceX recently reached a $17 billion deal to buy radio spectrum from EchoStar, BoostMobile's parent company. The deal will give SpaceX access to several 1.9GHz and 2GHz bands in the US. Some hardware changes may be required as these frequencies are not supported in current phones. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Musk Says SpaceX to Fly Bigger, Fully Reusable Starship in 2026 (3 minute read) SpaceX is readying a bigger version of Starship capable of carrying more than 100 tons of payload to orbit. Its current iteration of the vehicle has a capacity of about 35 tons. SpaceX is aiming to demonstrate full reusability for Starship next year. Construction Robot Printing Floor Plan: The Future of Building Design (2 minute read) Construction robots are revolutionizing the industry by printing floor plans directly onto concrete slabs, offering unparalleled precision and efficiency. Traditional methods of laying out floor plans are labor-intensive and error-prone. New robots use Building Information Modeling data to autonomously print accurate floor plans, eliminating the need for manual measurements and chalk lines. 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Good sort implementations can be surprisingly fast even without prior domain knowledge. Developers should think twice about replacing high-quality sort implementations with something home-grown. Just Enough Automation (6 minute read) Automation is a tool, not a goal. We should never automate something for the sake of it. Automation is great for self-documenting, and it can help fight human error, but it should be wielded with purpose. It shouldn't be the default regardless of its effectiveness at being fit for any particular purpose. 🎁 Miscellaneous TikTok says its search engine usage rivals Google among Gen Z (4 minute read) TikTok is primed to disrupt Google. New research shows that there is a closing gap between Google and TikTok's search engines, especially among Gen Z. Many people are turning to TikTok while searching for specific categories like fashion and beauty advice, cooking, entertainment, and DIY. If Google continues down its current path, we could be headed into a fragmented search world where ChatGPT handles complex queries, TikTok serves users who want audio-visual results, and Google plays the middle while hanging on to its market share. Oracle Is the New Nvidia, for Better or Worse (4 minute read) Oracle recently revealed in its fiscal first-quarter report that remaining performance obligations more than tripled from three months ago to $455 billion. The company has even more multibillion-dollar deals in the pipeline that could take that number past half a trillion. The sharp rise in revenue was fueled by demand for artificial-intelligence computing. Oracle now expects its cloud infrastructure revenue to hit $114 billion in the 2029 fiscal year. ⚡ Quick Links Build powerful apps with a single prompt (Sponsor) Your idea, your app—in minutes. Rocket is a full-stack vibe solutioning tool that turns prompts or Figma files into production-ready web or mobile apps. 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Dotter (GitHub Repo) Dotter is a dotfile manager and templater that provides a flexible configuration and automatic templating or symlinking to target locations. The Scam Called "You Don't Have to Remember Anything" (9 minute read) You need to remember everything to perform the cognitive tasks necessary for meaningful knowledge work. The Anti-Pitch: When haters hate your startup idea (10 minute read) Sometimes, there's truth when people hate on your startup idea, and founders need to hear it. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/7c97ce4b/ Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! 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