Weekly#629

  • Nvidia’s GTC 2025 Keynote
  • AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
  • Apple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report
  • Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’
  • Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition
  • Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram
  • Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
  • Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
  • Severance brought everything together in its season 2 finale
  • Product Playbooks

Weekly#628

  • Talk, Draw, Generate: 10 Ways for Creating Software with AI
  • 9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2025 and Beyond
  • Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI
  • SXSW Sessions
  • 2025 Tech Trends Report by Future Today Institute
  • Klarna, 93 million active consumers and to work with over 675,000 merchants in 26 countries, files for U.S. IPO
  • China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals
  • Gemini replacing Google Assistant on Android phones later in 2025
  • AI summaries are coming to Windows Notepad
  • Apple Plans AirPods Feature That Can Live-Translate Conversations
  • Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first
  • Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek’s accuracy – using only one GPU
  • Carmakers Are Reinventing the Gear Shifter and Drivers Are Lost (WSJ)
  • Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
  • Malware’s AI time bomb
  • How the Four Seasons Hit a Marketing Jackpot With HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ (WSJ)

Weekly#627

  • Speed as a Habit
  • Software Design: What went wrong?
  • Kuo: Apple’s First Foldable iPhone to Feature Book-Style Design, Sell for Over $2,000
  • Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in attacks
  • iOS 18.4 beta introduces AI-powered review summaries in the App Store
  • Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI Action Plan
  • Google begins testing AI-only search results
  • Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements
  • Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript
  • The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows Executives and Employees Investing in AI, but Uncertainty Holding Back Adoption
  • The new politics of AI: Why fast technological change requires bold policy targets
  • Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
  • Meta is targeting ‘hundreds of millions’ of businesses in agentic AI deployment
  • US communications agency to explore alternatives to GPS systems
  • Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters
  • ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code
  • A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated

Weekly#626

  • Introducing GPT-4.5
  • Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
  • AI-Powered Ransomware Attacks
  • Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025
  • Intel delays its Ohio chip factory to 2030
  • Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac
  • Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year
  • IBM closes $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition
  • Microsoft Releases BioEmu-1: A Deep Learning Model for Protein Structure Prediction
  • GitHub Copilot Extensions Integrate IDEs with External Services
  • There are 3 private lunar landers headed to the moon right now — a 1st in space history
  • Silicon Reimagined…New foundations for the age of AI.
  • Future of AI Research
  • Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards
  • Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday
  • The End of Programming as We Know It
  • Meet the AI agent engineer

Weekly#625

  • Three Observations
  • Introducing Perplexity Deep Research
  • How a Software Architect Uses Artificial Intelligence in His Daily Work…In the talk, he gave an example where an online system had the requirement to detect ambiguities
  • Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab
  • Superagency in the workplace
  • AI start-up DeepSeek expands business scope in potential shift towards monetisation
  • xAI has been using an enormous data center in Memphis containing around 200,000 GPUs to train Grok 3
  • Meta Introduces LLM-Powered Tool for Software Testing
  • Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip
  • How WSJ Readers Use AI at Work
  • Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android
  • Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language
  • Skylight Calendar Max review: a game-changer for busy parents
  • OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek’s emergence
  • The Dune survival game launches in May
  • Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals
  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes…with a single gram of hydrogen isotopes yielding the energy equivalent of 11 tonnes of coal..
  • Apple launches the iPhone 16E
  • Google builds AI ‘co-scientist’ tool to speed up research (FT)
  • Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon
  • Chinese scientists develop ‘injection’ to make smartphone and EV batteries last longer
  • How AI Can Protect Vital Pipelines and Cables Deep in the Ocean (WSJ)

Weekly#624

  • How Duolingo works: 14 years of big learnings in one little handbook
  • Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots
  • Getting Started With Agentic AI
  • Global electricity demand to rise 4% annually due to AI, other uses…It’s the fastest growth in years as AI, industrial production, air conditioning, EVs and more put new strains on power grids and climate efforts.
  • Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (FT)
  • Airbnb CEO says it’s still too early for AI trip planning…
  • China’s Smartphone Golden Refresh
  • Alibaba to partner with Apple on AI features, sending shares to 3-year high
  • AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds
  • Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age

Weekly#623

  • Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections
  • Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI…Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results
  • 27 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
  • Will China’s open-source AI end U.S. supremacy in the field?
  • The Future of Jobs Report 2025
  • OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s SSI in talks to be valued at $20 billion, sources say
  • AI chip firm Cerebras partners with France’s Mistral, claims speed record
  • Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link
  • Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally
  • Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation
  • OpenAI is considering building data center “campuses” in 16 states that have indicated “real interest” in the project
  • A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis
  • The Long Quest for Artifical Blood
  • “…The AI system, named Daisy, uses voice synthesis to mimic an elderly woman and engages fraudsters in lengthy discussions about fictitious family members or provides false bank details, keeping them occupied for up to 40 minutes per call…”

Weekly#622

  • “…OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model…O3-mini is priced at $0.55 per million cached input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, where a million tokens equates to roughly 750,000 words. That’s 63% cheaper than o1-mini…”
  • “…Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the company was slow to respond to TikTok’s meteoric rise because executives didn’t view it as truly social, offering a rare window into how the tech giant missed one of social media’s biggest shifts in recent years…Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses sold more than 1 million units last year“
  • US Probing If DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips From Firms in Singapore
  • Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
  • LLM Evaluation Tooling – A Review
  • Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
  • Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
  • Hubble’s largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
  • Humanity’s Last Exam
  • Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in 1Q 2025 Results: $36.3B Profit on $124.3B Revenue
  • SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says
  • Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight.The metaphorical clock is set to 89 seconds to midnight.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created clock in 1947
  • Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship
  • Preventing The AI Plateau

Weekly#621

  • OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can do tasks on the web
  • Mark Zuckerberg: “…Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan. We’ll bring online ~1GW of compute in ’25 and we’ll end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. We’re planning to invest $60-65B in capex this year…”
  • The AI industry’s pace has researchers stressed
  • “…When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene…DeepSeek’s engineers said they needed only about 2,000 specialized computer chips from the U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, in comparison to the as many as 16,000 chips needed by major American companies…DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
  • World Economic Forum | Sessions
  • AI, tech and more at Davos 2025: What to know
    • “… 75% of organizations report an erosion of customer trust following a cyber incident, with damaging effects on business performance and brand reputation…”
    • “…By 2035, the space economy is set to reach $1.8 trillion up from $630 billion in 2023 and averaging a growth rate of 9% a year…”
    • “…By 2026, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts electricity consumption for data centres alone could reach 1,000 TWh – roughly the equivalent to the energy consumption of Japan…”
  • “…The researchers, who presented their work last month at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, wondered if they could control streetlights in Berlin to create a city-wide version…”
  • Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025…In a complex cyberspace characterized by geopolitical uncertainties, widening cyber inequity and sophisticated cyberthreats, leaders must adopt a security-first mindset…
  • Global Risks Report 2025

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