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

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…”