Proton's AI Pivot & Gemma Space Haikus | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2026. This week we are covering: Proton's awkward AI pivot, Google's orbital data center satellite, GitHub's agentic infrastructure challenges, and much more.

🔒 Privacy Focused Email and VPN Company Makes an Awkward as Fuck Pivot Into AI Development … And I Don’t Know How To Feeeeeeeelllllllll

Proton faced significant backlash and ultimately canceled planned employee re-interviews after leaked internal communications revealed an aggressive push by CEO Andy Yen to prioritize AI velocity over security practices.

https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job/https://aiweekly.co/alerts/proton-ceo-scraps-ai-re-interviews-after-memo-leak🛰️ POEMS IN SPACE!

Google successfully launched its $3.5 million Suncatcher orbital AI data center satellite and tested its onboard Trillium TPU by having a Gemma 4 model generate a haiku about being in space.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/googles-ai-satellite-sends-a-very-expensive-haiku-to-earth/5306818🐙 I don’t think the world needs a new GitHub, says Github

As AI coding agents drive an massive surge in commit volumes and trigger new competition from platforms like Cursor's Origin and Entire, GitHub leadership insists the platform is evolving to handle the workload despite recent outages.

https://thenewstack.io/github-agentic-infrastructure-rebuild/https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents📼 Tape Is Dead: Long Live Tape

Driven by AI archiving demands and the need for air-gapped ransomware protection, Fujifilm is investing $63 million to increase its LTO tape production capacity fivefold.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/💻 Apple Announces The Most Powerful, Feature-Rich Macbook Pro in Their History, with Touch-enabled Display as Almost an Afterthought

Apple unveiled its new M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pro lineup featuring a dual-layer OLED display, a returning glowing Apple logo, and the company's first-ever laptop touchscreen starting at nearly $3,000.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/news/new-touchscreen-macbook-pro/☁️ AI Is Eating Cloud Too

Cloud compute capacity on AWS and Azure is severely constrained through 2027 due to surging AI demand, making upfront instance reservations practically mandatory and on-premises infrastructure increasingly attractive.

https://techstrong.it/features/the-cloud-was-supposed-to-be-infinite-now-we-need-reservations/Share and enjoy!https://chaoslever.com

• (00:00) - Intro
• (03:03) - Privacy Focused Email and VPN Company Makes an Awkward as Fuck Pivot Into AI Development … And I Don’t Know How To Feeeeeeeelllllllll
• (08:00) - POEMS IN SPACE!
• (12:03) - I don’t think the world needs a new GitHub, says Github
• (16:50) - Tape Is Dead: Long Live Tape
• (19:59) - Apple Announces The Most Powerful, Feature-Rich Macbook Pro in Th