Weekly#711

  • Redesigning source control at Anthropic…”…As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months…”
  • Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date
  • Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers
  • John Ternus Is Engineering a New Era for Apple
  • Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
  • Sony Debuts $5,900 Gold-Plated Walkman Player for Audiophiles
  • Amazon introduces 2 new AI products from Bee: Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse
  • Mini organs launching to space may help future astronauts and humans on Earth stay healthy
  • Netflix cuts about 6% of jobs in biggest layoff since 2022
  • iPhone Duo sells out immediately, now backordered until next year
  • How employment is changing at Anthropic
  • SoftBank in talks to buy US security group Allied Universal (FT)
  • AI Runs Into Its Next Big Obstacle (WSJ)
  • The Emerging Digital Battleground
  • How the Claude Code team does code review
  • AI Engineering Skills Map
  • Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI

Weekly#710

  • Worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year in Q3 2026 to 62.7 million units
  • Andreessen Horowitz backs TypeSafe AI at $7.5 Billion Value
  • Ultra raises $62 million for fast-growing ‘robots as a service’ business
  • SoftBank seeks $100bn from Gulf investors to expand AI bet (FT)
  • Musk’s Bigger Test After Airwaves Is Building Costly Network…”…Once the company receives approval from the Federal Communications Commission, it will combine its satellite-to-cell services with a terrestrial network that can connect devices everywhere…”
  • Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
  • Someone got Doom in an SQL database
  • Top 100 Consumer AI Apps – Seventh Edition
  • Nvidia in talks to acquire US ‘open’ model start-up Reflection AI (FT)
  • US telcos shed $60bn in value after SpaceX announces spectrum purchase (FT)
  • OpenAI annualised revenues $20bn less than previously signalled (FT)
  • Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era by Satya Nadella
  • The AI-native SDLC playbook
  • Build your own decision model
  • The State of Devs

Weekly#709

  • Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
  • OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigns
  • Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
  • OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
  • Google launches Project Suncatcher, a step towards AI data centers in space
  • OpenAI alerts more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity
  • Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon
  • The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
  • What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?
  • Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
  • The Insurability of Artificial Intelligence
  • The rise, fall, and rise of portable MP3 players
  • Meta’s Muse can shop and check out
  • China’s Push Into A.I. Has Led to a Problem: Too Much Usage
  • OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap
  • Google Analytics for Firebase iOS SDK outage on September 28, 2026

Weekly#708

  • “…Hugging Face hack: a tranche of nearly one million links from internet link-shortening services that OpenAI’s agents created from July 9 through July 13 in order to help conduct the cyberattack…”
  • Google DeepMind Exodus Sparks VC Frenzy for AI’s Next Big Thing
  • There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before
  • Andreessen Horowitz launches AI school as college alternative
  • Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
  • Meta’s Muse AI agent downloads are surging
  • Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
  • Thorsten Ball / What I believe about the future of software development
  • Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
  • Editorial diagram design
  • Monzo in talks with Brazil’s Nubank about sale (FT)
  • “…One in ten words spoken in Britain’s parliamentary debates, and one in seven in America’s House of Representatives, are probably drafted by AI…”

Weekly#707

  • Portal by Spotify cut Claude Code token usage by 90%
  • AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
  • Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (WSJ)
  • OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030 (FT)
  • Anthropic is expected to reach $100 billion in annualized revenue this year
  • Anthropic is partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation
  • “…It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying…”
  • U.S. acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space
  • “…“Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits among C++, C# and TypeScript as the best supported languages for internal development in the company…”
  • How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms
  • Large-Scale Automated Dependency Analysis Across Uber’s Service Mesh
  • DoorDash Uses Multi Agent LLMs to Clean up 60,000 Feature Flags
  • Ant International embeds AI agents across all platforms
  • A U.S. Strategy to Secure Geopolitical Advantage on an Uncertain Path to Superintelligence

Weekly#706

  • Anthropic report: 5 ways Claude was exploited for war, spying and repression
  • Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
  • We Must Pace the Frontier
  • Halving the Time: How Uber Eats Rebuilt Its Search Pipeline
  • A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
  • Does AI stop children from learning?
  • “…solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.Proving things without comprehending them is, they argue, a threat to intellectual work in general…”
  • 5 amazing visuals show how the male fruit fly’s brain map is advancing neuroscience
  • Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
  • OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident
  • Meta debuts Muse, its long-planned personal AI agent
  • Everything Apple announced at the foldable iPhone Duo launch
  • The AI doomsday scenarios
    • Kill switch:Rogue AIs skilled in hacking could take control of entire data centres and replicate themselves across various sites to prevent humans from “pulling the plug”.
    • Infrastructure takeover:AI hackers could seize control of energy, financial and communications infrastructure
    • Biological attack:a superintelligent system would release biological weapons
    • War: trick human operators into launching military conflict