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…”

Weekly#638

  • What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive (WSJ)
  • AI Can’t Compete With Humans When It Comes to Reading the Room…People pick up on physical cues that artificial intelligence models miss (WSJ)
  • Apple Plans Glasses for 2026 as Part of AI Push, Nixes Watch With Camera
  • Microsoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and more
  • The Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AI
  • 100 things announced at I/O, Google I/O 2025 recap
  • Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
  • America’s Leading Alien Hunters Depend on AI to Speed Their Search
  • Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you
  • Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad updates with new features begin rolling out to Windows Insiders
  • Wisk Aero and NASA sign five-year partnership to advance sustainable autonomous flights

Weekly#637

  • OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
  • Klarna CEO: We’re Giving AI More Customer Service Work, Not Less.”…“Our agent, that we launched about a year ago, is still dealing with about 1.3 million errands per month,” Siemiatkowski told me, “which is the equivalent of what previously was done by about 800 people on a monthly basis…”
  • Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models
  • An AI start-up behind a chatbot that replicates an investment banker has raised $50mn
  • According to the last poll by Ofcom, four out of five 13-17 year olds in the UK are using generative AI
  • FBI: US officials targeted in voice deepfake attacks since April
  • Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026
  • Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model
  • “…If you have an agent that really knows you, because it has kept this memory of conversations, it makes the whole service more sticky, so that once you’ve signed on to using [one product] you will never go to another one,” said Pattie Maes, a professor at MIT’s media lab and specialist in human interaction with AI…”
  • Apple’s new CarPlay Ultra is ready, but only in Aston Martins for now
  • “…Your Tesla has better AI than any US aircraft.Your Roomba has better autonomy than most of the Pentagon’s weapons systems. And your Snapchat filters,they rely on better computer vision than our most advanced military sensors…”
  • AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
  • Netflix ad tier now has 94 million monthly active users