Weekly#656

  • One year of agentic AI: Six lessons from the people doing the work
  • Kubernetes 1.34 Released with KYAML, Traffic Routing Controls, and Improved Observability
  • Google Introduces VaultGemma: An Experimental Differentially Private LLM
  • How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26
  • HSBC has successfully deployed quantum computing technology to optimize bond trading
  • Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed
  • European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance
  • Spotify Announces New AI Safeguards, Says It’s Removed 75 Million ‘Spammy’ Tracks
  • Anthropic to triple international workforce in global AI push
  • Apple Builds a ChatGPT-Like App to Help Test the Revamped Siri
  • Introducing ChatGPT Pulse
  • Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaks at 22 Tbps and 10 Bpps
  • Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users
  • Nasa plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February 2026
  • Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction
  • “…AI companies will need $2 trillion in combined annual revenue to fund computing power by 2030, but their revenue is likely to fall $800 billion short, according to Bain & Co…”

Weekly#655

  • OpenAI might be developing a smart speaker, glasses, voice recorder, and a pin
  • Meta Ray-Ban Display and everything else unveiled at Meta Connect 2025
  • Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream
  • New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes
  • Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models
  • China’s DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
  • Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents
  • Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform
  • Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B
  • Nvidia buys $5B stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration
  • AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) Method Definition
  • IDE Comparison With Cursor, Windsurf, and Copilot (on GPT-5)
  • How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
  • AI can support 80% of corporate affairs tasks, new BCG report says, PDF

Weekly#654

  • OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership
  • Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking’s black hole theorem
  • Gmail will now filter your purchases into a new tab
  • VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds
  • Albania appoints AI bot
  • AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts
  • Everything Apple revealed at the iPhone 17 launch event
  • We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI
  • ‘China Inside’: How Chinese EV tech is reshaping global auto design…develop global models on Chinese EV platforms
  • Oracle Shares Skyrocket as Software Giant Scores Massive AI Deals…Oracle has been one of the biggest benefactors of the artificial intelligence boom thanks to its cloud infrastructure business and its access to Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, which are both needed to run large workloads
  • Apple delays release of iPhone Air in China due to pending approval of eSIM
  • Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic
  • API design
  • Amazon drivers could be wearing AR glasses with a built-in display next year
  • Vercel Introduces AI Gateway for Multi-Model Integration

Weekly#653

  • Everything Apple Plans to Show at Sept. 9 ‘Awe Dropping’ iPhone 17 Event
  • OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
  • xAI Releases Grok Code Fast 1, a New Model for Agentic Coding
  • Amazon’s Project Kuiper strikes its first satellite internet deal with an airline
  • Nvidia dominates GPU shipments with 94% share
  • Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978
  • Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
  • Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million
  • EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has released Apertus, Switzerland’s first large-scale open, multilingual language model
  • Chrome market share 70%
  • large behavior model (LBM)
  • framework for developing safe and trustworthy agents

Weekly#652

  • Alibaba develops new AI chip
  • DeepSeek Opts for Huawei Chips to Train Some models…but will still use Nvidia chips for largest models
  • Mark Zuckerberg appoints Shengjia Zhao, who co-created OpenAI’s ChatGPT, as chief scientist of Meta’s AI Superintelligence Lab
  • The future of AI hardware isn’t one device — it’s an entire ecosystem
  • The Future of Higher Education
  • Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
  • Framework is now selling the first gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU
  • Making AI Agents Work for You (and Your Team)
  • Reading for pleasure is going out of style
  • Architecting Multi-Agent AI Systems in Java with Quarkus and Langchain4j
  • Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down
  • The art and science of context engineering for AI code reviews

Weekly#651

  • America Should Rent, Not Sell, AI Chips to China
  • Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI to Power Revamped Siri
  • Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder
  • The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
  • Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City
  • “…Meta announced internally that it is splitting its A.I. division — which is known as Meta Superintelligence Labs — into four groups…”
  • Claude Sonnet 4 Expands to 1 Million Token Context Window
  • Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google
  • “…estimate the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours (Wh) of energy…”
  • Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading

Weekly#650

  • Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows
  • Global EV Sales Up 27% in 2025
  • China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday…280 teams from 16 countries compete in Beijing robot games
  • Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
  • Alien: Earth is a brilliant and terrifying expansion of the franchise
  • ChatGPT’s mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install
  • How NASA Tests Their Software for the Space Shuttle and the Orion MPCV
  • LLMs bring new nature of abstraction

Weekly#649

  • OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here…OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
  • “…New research from venture firm SignalFire shows that the startup is increasing its engineering organization faster than those competitors and more…Anthropic is hiring engineers 2.68 times faster than it’s losing them. That number is 2.18 for OpenAI, 2.07 for Meta and 1.17 for Google…”
  • Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta
  • Astronomers cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding
  • Apple to announce $100B further commitment for US manufacturing
  • ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
  • Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed
  • High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups
  • Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms
  • New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes

Weekly#648

  • Anthropic Nears Funding at $170 Billion Value as Revenue Surges
  • Figma’s stock soars in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hits $45B
  • AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail
  • OpenAI Launches Stargate in Europe With Norwegian Deal.”…The site, which will be jointly owned by the two European companies, has the initial goal of delivering 230 megawatts of capacity with plans to add additional 290 megawatts…”
  • Inside the relentless race for AI capacity
  • A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.”…Some potential hires were told they would be allotted 30,000 graphical processing units, or GPUs, for their A.I. research, one of the people said…”
  • Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands
  • Microsoft’s market cap surpasses $4 trillion mark, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
  • Amazon’s Alexa Fund Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows
  • Google execs say employees have to ‘be more AI-savvy’ as competition ramps up
  • AI code generators are writing vulnerable software nearly half the time
  • Introducing study mode
  • Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
  • Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month to Meta’s Superintelligence Team
  • Elon Musk confirms Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion chip contract with Samsung

Weekly#647

  • Apple iOS 26 public beta arrives
  • Google’s new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes
  • OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
  • The battery-powered Starlink Mini is here
  • Recommitting to our why, what, and how
  • Indian Studio Uses AI To Change Film’s Ending Without Director’s Consent
  • Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
  • Google set up two robotic arms for a game of infinite table tennis
  • Pebble is officially Pebble again