Weekly#692

  • SpaceX Inks $30 Billion Computing Power Deal With Google
  • OpenAI rolls out a Lockdown Mode for extra protection against prompt injection attacks
  • “…Revolut Ltd. is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value the digital bank at $115 billion, on the heels of receiving a UK bank license and applying for a charter in the US…”
  • AI Coding Startup Lovable In Talks To Raise Funding At A $12 Billion Valuation
  • JPMorgan, Citi and Big Banks Plan New Tokenized Deposit System to Answer Crypto
  • Under the new rules, the commission will be required to decide on nuclear reactor licenses within 18 months
  • Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk
  • Google launches Gemma 4 12B: This powerful AI model can run on your laptop
  • The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming
  • Axios AI + NY Summit 2026
  • iOS 27: Seven new iPhone features are coming soon
  • Revenge of the AI bubble
  • “…The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool…”
  • 1 Company Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in a Single Month: Report Comes as AI Costs Climb
  • Using LLMs to secure source code
  • The Definitive Guide to Harness Engineering

Weekly#691

  • Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them
  • Code Rabbit Report
  • Measuring the Self-Reported Impact of Early-2026 AI on Technical Worker Productivity
  • Debt Behind the AI Boom: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI-Generated Code in the Wild
  • “…Although TikTok is widely described as a social media giant, it’s been gradually moving beyond that category. Over time, the video app added TikTok Shop, a map for local discovery, robust search, games, and so much more. Now, it has recently added hotel booking capabilities and is pursuing a fintech license…”
  • Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
  • Alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026
  • Zero Trust for AI Agents
  • Dynamic workflows in Claude Code
  • NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base at the Moon’s South Pole
  • Exclusive: Starlink and Amazon may be able to buy into EU mobile satellite spectrum plan
  • Blue Origin faces months of delays after rocket explosion damages launch pad
  • Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
  • Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
  • Foundation Future Industries, a start-up founded in 2024, aims to leverage humanoid robots for military and industrial work
  • The First Class of AI Natives Is Graduating. Offices Are Getting Ready

Weekly#690

  • Saudi’s NEOM halts work on The Line until after 2030
  • Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum
  • “…But repeated outages, executive turnover, and the soaring popularity of newer tools like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code have eaten away at GitHub’s early advantage in generative artificial intelligence, creating another challenge for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as he attempts to straighten out his company’s AI story…”
  • SpaceX filed for IPO, S-1
  • Google Search as you know it is over
  • Trump administration buys into quantum computing
  • Scaling Real-Time Traffic Forecasting with a Graph-Aware Transformer
  • DeepSeek Founder Avows AGI Goal Ahead of $10 Billion Funding
  • Nadella also personally reviews AI metrics every week, one person said.
  • Compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 Targeted VS Code Developers with Credential Stealer
  • Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes
  • Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit
  • How Claude Code works in large codebases: Best practices and where to start
  • The Great Flattening
  • “…Basically, get really good at either doing kernel-level work, or become world-class at doing agentic work on top of the stack…”

Weekly#689

  • OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts…”“More than 200 million people are already going to ChatGPT every month with finance questions – from budgeting to tips on how to cut back on spending…”
  • Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
  • ‘Uncharted territory’: Figure AI humanoid robots hit 24/7 nonstop work milestone
  • Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find
  • Communities Are Raising Noise Pollution Concerns About Data Centers
  • Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax…”…Highkin now pays $2,052 per year using Ghost and an add-on called Outpost, compared to $4,968 per year on Substack. The Rose Garden Report’s subscriber base has grown 22 percent since the end of 2024, Highkin says…”
  • SpaceX accelerates IPO timeline, targets June 12 listing on Nasdaq
  • Windows 11 tests an adjustable taskbar and resizable Start menu
  • PwC is deploying Claude to build technology, execute deals, and reinvent enterprise functions for clients

Weekly#688

  • Anthropic introduces “dreaming,” a system that lets AI agents learn from their own mistakes
  • Sony targets double-digit profit growth despite slowdown in PlayStation 5 sales amid memory price crunch
  • Nintendo Plans Switch 2 Price Increase as Outlook Disappoints
  • Google’s Isomorphic Labs (AI-powered drug discovery company) to Raise Over $2 Billion in New Funding
  • DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts
  • new Fitbit Air
  • Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary
  • Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
  • Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean
  • Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code
  • Fiber optic cables can eavesdrop on nearby conversations
  • Anthropic signs $1.8 billion AI cloud deal with Akamai, Bloomberg News reports
  • What an AI productivity surge would mean for the fiscal outlook
  • Investors have come to view sports as the last bulwark against AI disruption
  • Anthropic will get compute capacity from SpaceX
  • Hugging Face launches robot app store
  • Meta, Google enter AI agent race as ‘agentic wars’ heat up
  • From Model Wars to Platform Wars

Weekly#687

  • Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
  • Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
  • The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
  • Dutch government selects Stackit, Lidl’s sister company, as its cloud alternative
  • Gemini is rolling out to cars with Google built-in
  • Twilio Delivers Earnings Beat, Strong Guidance As AI Voice Product Ramps
  • How Caterpillar is becoming an AI play amid data center boom
  • Citi is rolling out a new internal AI platform that lets employees create agents
  • Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
  • Atlassian stock soars 20% after earnings show strong cloud, data center growth
  • AI Is changing the price of work
  • How people ask Claude for personal guidance
  • Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
  • OpenAI trial recap
  • Who will be the senior engineers of 2035?
  • Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Résumé and Job Posting Data
  • The Great Engineering Hiring Dilemma: Double Down on Seniors or Bet Big on AI-Native Talent?