Signal vs. Noise

In the era of pervasive intelligence, technologies are advancing at super-fast pace. What will be the most impactful technology disruptions for the foreseeable future, how do we identify what is real and what is hype? What is signal, and what is noise?

“Signal vs Noise”

is my personal newsletter, a new kind that allows you to express their own views by ranking the news based on your own view of SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) and see how it is compared with all others.  The ranking is an aggregated voting result of the readers community, neither that of my personal view nor that of my company. It provides just one reference point for cutting through some noises and uncover some valuable signals.

Brandon Wang
VP, Technology Strategy
Synopsys

Signal vs. Noise

In the era of pervasive intelligence, technologies are advancing at super-fast pace. What will be the most impactful technology disruptions for the foreseeable future, how do we identify what is real and what is hype? What is signal, and what is noise?

“Signal vs Noise”

is my personal newsletter, a new kind that allows you to express their own views by ranking the news based on your own view of SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) and see how it is compared with all others.  The ranking is an aggregated voting result of the readers community, neither that of my personal view nor that of my company. It provides just one reference point for cutting through some noises and uncover some valuable signals.

Month: September 2026

  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that frontier AI development must slow enough for safety measures to keep pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. He warns that recursive self-improvement, where AI helps build more powerful AI, could outstrip current alignment, evaluation, and security controls. Rather than halting progress,…