Weekly#620

  • AI in America – OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint PDF
  • A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Plans $1 Billion Factory in Ohio
  • Nvidia releases microservices to safeguard AI agents
  • German Robot Maker Neura Robotics Raises €120 Million
  • About 60% of Gemini’s paying users kept their subscriptions six months after first signing up (WSJ)
  • AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
  • Civilization VII preview: The most complete package since IV
  • Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand
  • Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into orbit
  • HuatuoGPT-o1: Advancing Complex Medical Reasoning with AI
  • “…most SMR projects will not be ready until at least the 2030s” (FT)
  • Making new nuclear power viable in the energy transition
  • Make Better Strategic Decisions Around Slow-Developing Technology
  • There’s a Better Way to Predict a Technology’s Future: Follow the Rate of Change (WSJ)”…“You can predict the direction of technology and what is scalable, with 60% to 70% accuracy,” says Khosla,…You just can’t get there by asking up-or-down questions about a moment in time….”
  • From Diagram to Code with Amazon Q Developer
  • 3 qualities Apple looks for in employees: collaboration, curiosity, creativity

Weekly#619

  • Introducing the DX Core 4…A new framework for measuring developer productivity that encapsulates DORA, SPACE, and DevEx
  • 6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025
  • TSMC revenue surges 34% to record in 2024 amid AI chip boom
  • What Spotify’s 55 Million US Subscribers Means for Podcasters, Authors and Musicians
  • Coding with LLMs
  • The UPI network now processes more than 13 billion real-time transactions monthly
  • Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”
  • The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show
  • Intuitive Machines set for second landing
  • “…StackOverflow, once the favoured destination of developers in search of coding help, is suffering from declining activity, with new questions tumbling 75 percent since their peak in 2017, and down 60 percent year-on-year in December 2024…”
  • Quantum computing stocks tank as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the tech won’t be viable for another 20 years
  • 2024 was the first year above 1.5C of global warming, scientists say
  • Wener Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
  • Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computers Won’t Be Very Useful for Another 20 Years
  • Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles

Weekly#618

  • AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives
  • Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist
  • Rivian wraps 2024 with more than 50,000 EVs delivered
  • “…More broadly, the history business is booming. In 2023, people in the UK and Ireland spent more on history books than at any point since Nielsen BookData’s records began in 1998…”
  • Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
  • Constellation inks $1 billion deal to supply US government with nuclear power
  • Hackers target dozens of VPN and AI extensions for Google Chrome to compromise data
  • How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
  • A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately
  • NATO plans to build satellite links as backups to undersea cables
  • Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch
  • 60 years of spaceflight patches
  • How we’ll use AI in 2025
  • The Power of Nvidia’s Systems Thinking Approach

Weekly#617

  • Cursor vs GitHub Copilot
  • OpenAI Details Plans for Becoming a For-Profit Company
  • TSMC begins mass production at 1st Japan chip plant in Kumamoto produces logic chips with 12 to 28 nanometer process technologies for use in cars and image sensors for customers such as Sony Group Corp. and auto parts maker Denso Corp.
  • Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI
  • Transitioning From Postman to Insomnia
  • ‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years…Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast
  • The Paper Passport Is Dying
  • Cybersecurity stories in 2024
  • “…Today, a software engineer’s primary desktop is their editor. What is the Mission Control for a software engineer in the era of autonomous development?…”

Weekly#616

  • Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model…The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental…
  • Navigating the AI Frontier: A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents
  • In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation
  • AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion
  • Grammarly is buying Coda to expand AI offerings
  • Sony’s gaming and network services segment accounts for around 37% of its revenue
  • New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
  • ‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
  • Japan Sees Nuclear as Cheapest Baseload Power Source in 2040
  • Do Autonomous Vehicles Outperform Latest-Generation Human-Driven Vehicles?
  • The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia?
  • IOT: Z-Wave LR standard’s range of up to 1 mile and operate on mesh networks that can support as many as 4,000 devices
  • Apple reportedly won’t launch an iPhone subscription service

Weekly#615

  • Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too
  • Google Cloud launches Agentspace to create, deploy agents
  • Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code
  • What Is (or Was) ‘Perks Culture’?
  • Intel executives say a manufacturing spinoff is possible
  • Introducing Gemini 2.0…Gemini 2.0 is the next chapter for Google AI
  • Incident Report for OpenAI
  • Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
  • Palantir EVP: “Modern war cannot be won without software“
  • AI Coding Assistants Landscape
  • “…The other was Heschl’s gyrus, a fold on the upper temporal lobe which hosts the auditory cortex (the cortex is the outermost layer of the brain). Better reading ability was linked to a larger anterior part of the temporal lobe in the left hemisphere compared to the right…”

Weekly#614

  • OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier…o1-preview successfully solved 83% of problems in the International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam, a sharp improvement from GPT-4o’s 13% success rate…
  • Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI tool that can read your screen, launches in preview
  • Amazon Web Services announced it’s launching a new AI supercomputer built from its own machine learning chips that could be one of the largest used to train AI models—and tries to rival chipmaking giant Nvidia.
  • Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond by Werner Vogels
  • AWS re:Invent Videos
  • The levels of code AI
  • Apple Prepares Three-Year Modem Rollout to Outdo Qualcomm
  • “…xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs)…the move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train xAI’s chatbot called Grok…”
  • Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds

Weekly#613

  • “…the Big Four hyperscalers have spent $200 billion in capex, and nearly half of that money goes directly to Nvidia…”
  • Who’s winning the AI race
  • OpenAI gets new $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank
  • Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Standups
  • What is an AI agent?
  • Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under 16s to Become Law
  • Amazon Develops Video AI Model, Hedging Its Reliance on Anthropic
  • Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
  • Former Android leaders are building an ‘operating system for AI agents
  • Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History
  • Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
  • Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world
  • “…According to researchers at Fujitsu, the number of parameters in AI systems is growing 32-fold approximately every three years…”

Weekly#612

  • Qwen2.5-Coder Series: Powerful, Diverse, Practical
  • Google Develops AlphaQubit to Identify, Correct Quantum Errors
  • The Department of Justice asks court to force Google to spin off Chrome
  • Nvidia (NVDA) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
  • Companies aren’t prepared for AI-powered bot attacks
  • “…Under the new Windows Resiliency Initiative, Microsoft is working to create a new recovery environment for Windows that will help devices come back online faster if they’re knocked offline…”
  • AI Agents Market Landscape
  • Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Is Valued at $50 Billion in New Funding Round
  • iOS 18.2 beta 4: Here’s what’s new
  • NASA wants SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver cargo to the moon
  • AI eats the world
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth

Weekly#611

  • Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy…”…When language is no longer the barrier, we can employ the full expressivity of human language to convey to the AI higher concepts and logic, that would capture our request in the most compact and effective way…”
  • OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users…The new software, codenamed “Operator,” is set to be released in January.
  • “…Restarting a computer may seem like an inconvenience to those who don’t like waiting, but it’s essential for maintaining performance, stability and security as some malware will remain in memory until a reboot…”
  • AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open…The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.
  • How Monzo run migrations across 2,800 microservices
  • What happens when Software no longer needs code
  • Google’s Gemini AI now has its own iPhone app
  • “…Anthropic is working with the Department of Energy’s nuclear specialists to ensure its models don’t help people make weapons, the company first shared with Axios…”
  • Disney’s net income increased to $460 million
  • “…Data-rich enterprises like Bayer are working with Microsoft to develop industry-specific gen AI models—and then licensing them to others…”
  • Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark