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The marathon Q&A with Amiga Bill is now also on YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=lp-NAajr…
The recent Amiga Update presentation with Paul is now on YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=i97KHKkh…
Thanks to Dan for his help with the video, Ravi & Team for organizing a great event, and all the friends who attended.
The Kickstart event and presentation had a low-profile "prequel" at RetCon seven weeks earlier:
youtube.com/watch?v=590ZejV9…
I've heard concerns about the future of OS3/OS4 if Amiga prevails in the case brought by a licensee in 2018.
Why? Amiga would have both the resources and the will to ensure legal and operational continuity.
It's unfortunate to be limited in what can be said while a case is ongoing, but at every Amiga event I attended, I made a point of emphasizing reconciliation and healing.
Please, let's stop the scaremongering.
Mike retweeted
Following positive developments concerning Hyperion Entertainment, progress has been made in narrowing a number of issues.
Going forward, Amiga Corporation is Hyperion Entertainment CVBA's licensor under the existing 2009 Settlement Agreement. The chapter involving Cloanto, ITEC, Amino and KMOS has been closed. On that basis, Amiga and Hyperion Entertainment are engaged in renewed settlement discussions.
It is also agreed that Retro Games may release certain Amiga-branded products, and that Hyperion Entertainment may offer "AmigaOS 3.2" digital upgrades under a temporary arrangement intended to preserve continuity for the community while those discussions continue.
Since 1985, Amiga has held an enduring place in computing history. Amiga Corporation remains committed to the preservation, stewardship and continued development of that legacy.
Good recap of the current state of AI/agents (Google, MCP in general, etc.)
Breaking news: Google is winning on every AI front.
This is not just about Gemini 2.5 but about a reality that OpenAI and Anthropic fans have ignored for too long. Here's a non-exhaustive list:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro is the best model in the world according to benchmarks, vibe checks, high-taste testers, and firsthand testimonies. It's also fast and cheap compared to similar models (Google offers it for free on the Gemini app!)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash (to be announced soon) is much faster and much cheaper, so it captures perfectly the Pareto frontier of cost-performance of cost-efficient models.
- Gemma 3 is a highly competitive open-source model, as good or better than Llama 4 and DeepSeek models.
- That's just LLMs. Google is world-class in image (Imagen 3), video (Veo 2), voice (Chirp 3), and music (Lyria). They're integrating them all in Vertex AI.
- Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro is *twice as good* as OpenAI's Deep Research, according to human testers. Other agents? Yes: Project Astra (assistant) and Project Mariner (computer interaction)
- They just launched Agent2Agent, compatible and complementary to Anthropic's MCP, which they will build in-house as well.
- And they keep publishing papers in top journals (Nature) and going to the top conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS), whereas others jealously keep their most important stuff for themselves.
- That's just the AI stuff, but Google is also a consumer software company with seven 2+ billion monthly users: Search, YouTube, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Maps, and Play Store
- A hyperscaler (Google Cloud)
- A hardware company (TPUs, Ironwood)
- And a phone company (Pixel).
How can OpenAI or Anthropic or even Meta fight such a beast?
Let’s wait for their responses to this. I’ll be here to cover any newsworthy release—even if I’ve already made my bet on who’s most likely to win.
(Read the full post in the link below.)
A new goldmine of evidence for cold cases? "Seeing" a novel dimension of fingerprint features, AI finds unexpected correlations between fingerprints from different fingers of the same person. What about identical twins? Relatives? I am curious..
creativemachineslab.com/fing…
Dear @WindowsUpdate, for the second time since last year, a Windows update broke ReFS. Could someone @Microsoft perhaps look into this? @heiseonline @monohoshi_blog
techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
The recent Amiga 37 Germany talk is now live (24', with subtitles):
youtu.be/uY0n4ucx0wo
A partner that could not yet be mentioned last month: Amiga games coming soon to Samsung Gaming Hub/Samsung Smart TVs (via Antstream). There is more to come.
europeangaming.eu/portal/lat…
Modern streaming TV can be a powerful language learning tool for children. The content is already there, but we are missing parental controls to block by audio language (or to only allow some languages). 1/3
This should hide all content that does not match the criteria. Without such a setting, it just doesn't work well: finding titles with the desired audio language can be a most frustrating experience, and there are frequent fallbacks to the local/non-learning language. 2/3
Interestingly, the digital content that this SHA-256 hash refers to is now been auctioned as "never before seen". It's only 8 years late ;) @bonhams1793
