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

Weekly#646

  • How we built our multi-agent research system
  • Generative AI and the Nature of Work
  • Introducing Kiro
  • Amazon-backed Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for financial services
  • Google Is Said to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Assets, Talent…Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf
  • Reflections on OpenAI
  • How to Build Secure Software without Sacrificing Productivity
  • OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
  • Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
  • Everything learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra
  • “…By the end of the year, Delta plans for 20% of its ticket prices to be individually determined using AI, president Glen Hauenstein told investors last week…”
  • Google’s head of Android said the computer science major needs a ‘rebrand
  • OpenAI will rely on Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its application programming interface in several countries
  • Google’s AI can now make phone calls for you
  • Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their Boss
  • FourCastNet 3: A geometric approach to probabilistic machine-learning weather forecasting at scale

Weekly#645

  • The Real AI Race
  • AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner
  • With Varda Space, leading Silicon Valley players make big bet on making drugs in space
  • How Pair Programming Enhanced Development Speed, Focus, and Flow
  • Robot surgery on humans could be trialled within decade after success on pig organs
  • Nvidia becomes first member of the $4 trillion club
  • YouTube is shutting down its Trending page after 10 years
  • Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
  • Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox
  • Chinese Satellites Complete First High-Altitude Rendezvous for Possible Groundbreaking Refueling
  • Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
  • AI Native DevCon – Spring 2025

Weekly#644

  • Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
  • ASML, Airbus, Mistral Ask EU to Delay Start of AI Act Rules
  • Microsoft will cut less than 4% of its global workforce across teams, role types and geographies
  • Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman
  • Behind the Curtain: Zuck’s AI moonshot
  • AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams
  • Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years
  • Seizing the agentic AI advantage
  • Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence
  • Norway Reached 96.9% Market Share for EVs in June
  • Figma files for IPO on NYSE
  • Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot, releases generative AI model

Weekly#643

  • Meta hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working at the ChatGPT-owner’s Zurich office, the WSJ reported
  • Starlink helps eight more nation pass 50% IPv6 Adoption
  • Microsoft is retiring the infamous ‘blue screen of death
  • 36% of Chinese Undergraduates Choose Engineering, Compared To 5% in US and UK in 2022
  • Google Convinces OpenAI to Use TPU Chips in Win Against Nvidia
  • Meta seeks $29bn from private credit giants to fund AI data centres (FT)
  • Boeing Co. predicted airlines will need 43,600 new aircraft over the next 20 years
  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): Enhancing Software Transparency and Security
  • Introducing the Anthropic Economic Futures Program
  • YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS
  • Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 (WEF)
  • The Future of Global Fintech (WEF)
  • Moving AI compute to phones massively reduces power use, study finds
  • The five seismic shifts that will reshape communications
  • 7 People Now Have Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Implant

Weekly#642

  • Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage
  • Meta’s Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
  • Breaking down the infinite workday
  • Expert Generalists
  • ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
  • Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
  • Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
  • Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City
  • Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI
  • NFC Release 15: The what, why and how
  • “…DNSFilter has found that one in every 644 clicks on unsubscribe links that say “click here to unsubscribe” leads users to potentially malicious websites…”

Weekly#641

  • ..energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours
  • …Those high-agency product managers that have understood that they are responsible for value and viability, and all that entails, are ideally suited for the AI-powered future
  • Barbie-maker Mattel teams up with OpenAI, eyes first AI-powered product this year
  • Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six “pillars” in order to simplify its structure
  • Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta as part of $14.3 billion deal
  • Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
  • Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them
  • Google is killing Android Instant Apps, but you probably won’t miss them
  • Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta
  • Meta inks a new geothermal energy deal to support AI
  • Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews

Weekly#640

  • “…AI startups revolutionize coding industry, leading to sky-high valuations…They’re also at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, which all announced new code-gen products in May, and Anthropic is also working on one as well, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters…”
  • Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
  • How AI models may forecast the world’s next wildfires
  • Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
  • Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
  • Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?
  • More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?
  • Elon Musk projects SpaceX revenue of about $15.5 billion in 2025
  • Bristol Myers agrees up to $11.1 billion deal with BioNTech
  • Agentic AI Systems: Smarter Automation With LangChain and LangGraph
  • “…Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday inked a 20-year deal with power giant Constellation Energy to keep a large Illinois nuclear plant running until mid-century…”
  • Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI (WSJ)
  • Polymarket | Which company has best AI model end of 2025?
  • Meta Seeks Hollywood Deals for New Virtual-Reality Headset (WSJ)
  • Vibe coding’ is the new DIY (FT)

Weekly#639

  • Ben Evans – AI eats the world
  • Sequoia AI Ascent 2025
  • Simon Sinek about AI
  • Nvidia beats on earnings and revenue as data center sales jump 73%
  • Amazon taps Xbox co-founder to lead new team developing ‘breakthrough’ consumer products
  • Grammarly secures $1 billion from General Catalyst to build AI productivity platform
  • Meta and Anduril Industries are collaborating to develop high-tech VR/AR headsets for the U.S. Army called EagleEye.
  • DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU
  • Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users
  • Automated architecture diagrams
  • Practical AI resources on Prompt Engineering, Agents, and RAG
  • Hugging Face introduces two open-source robot designs
  • AI May Consume Half of Data Centre Power by End of 2025
  • OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a ‘super assistant’ for every part of your life
  • Mary Meeker 2025
  • “…AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office…”