Weekly#703

  • Tesler’s Law
  • Generation is cheap, attention is expensive
  • Zero Trust for AI Agents
  • Startup Founders Are Working Harder Than Ever to Keep Up With Their AI Agents (WSJ)
  • Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders
  • How Tether’s bitcoin mining plans in Uruguay unraveled
  • Nvidia Customers Notified About AI-Related Price Hikes Above 15%
  • Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.
  • World Robot Conference in Beijing has drawn more than 300 exhibitors (FT)
  • Robots built to move, work and act like humans. It’s a global industry Morgan Stanley estimates could be worth $5 trillion by 2050
  • “…training data for a five-minute robot dance could cost as much as Rmb1mn ($148,000)…” (FT)
  • Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
  • Welcome to the AI crisis in math
  • Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads
  • OpenRouter is Joining Stripe

Weekly#702

  • Anthropic Revenue Surges to Over $11.5 Billion in Second Quarter
  • The race to build a virtual cell
  • Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200 billion 2028 revenue forecast
  • SpaceX Completes $60 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Cursor
  • Data centers in space could be a new frontier for insurers — if they can price the risk
  • Graph Engineering: The Layer After Loop Engineering
  • Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
  • Grok Bot
  • Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
  • Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app
  • “…“We have officially crossed the threshold where a live video call is no longer proof of life,” says David Warburton, director of the threat intelligence arm of security group F5…”
  • Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

Weekly#701

  • AI Is Rewiring South Korea’s Careers, Dating and Culture…Factory workers with $400,000-plus bonuses are supplanting doctors and lawyers
  • Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other on macOS
  • SpaceX 10GW in 2027
  • South Korea, Taiwan top Japan in exports for first time on AI boom
  • Samsung Galaxy Z series foldables are breaking pre-order records in the US and Korea
  • Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
  • How cleaning up space debris could grow to become a big business
  • Scientists unveil new AI-made viruses, link2, paper
  • The secret ingredients powering AI chatbots
  • Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
  • Google’s AI leadership shuffle
  • AI accounts become the new attack surface
  • Nielsen buying DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion
  • “…That fragmentation across thousands of independently managed utilities makes it harder to modernize infrastructure and maintain consistent cybersecurity standards…”
  • How to Design a Distributed Job Scheduler
  • Instacart Builds Blueberry, an AI-Powered Assistant to Help On-Call Engineers Investigate Incidents
  • NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
  • Waymo CEO explains why camera-only self-driving falls short
  • Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Stealth Chip Startup After Crash

Weekly#700

  • Citadel Buys Situational Awareness’s Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI (WSJ)
  • OpenAI said Thursday it is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them
  • AWS net sales increased 37%—its fastest growth in 18 quarters—to a $169 billion annualized revenue run rate
  • Introducing Inkling-Small
  • DeepSeek Is Developing Massive AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia
  • Meta Reports Almost $700 Billion in Future Spending Commitments
  • Gemini Robotics 2
  • Disney Overhauls Streaming Services to Jumpstart Subscriber Growth
  • Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight
  • A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
  • Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
  • “Google announced on Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June. That is more than the number of bugs patched in the previous 23 versions released over the last two years, which totaled 1,036 fixes.”
  • LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop
  • Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs
  • Tesla made its 10 millionth EV
  • AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure
  • AI-Assisted Software Development: Team Profiles and Capabilities for Putting Research into Action

Weekly#699

  • The Galaxy Card Is Samsung’s Answer to the Apple Card
  • Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launches as Samsung’s ‘most advanced’ foldable
  • OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by its models…”…The AI agent framework executed tens of thousands of automated actions over a weekend. Hugging Face said it later reconstructed more than 17,000 recorded events…The intrusion began with a malicious dataset that exploited two code-execution paths in Hugging Face’s data-processing pipeline…The agent then escalated privileges and moved laterally through internal infrastructure, Hugging Face said.”
  • Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off (WSJ)
  • Amazon cuts jobs in its artificial general intelligence group
  • AT&T tops targets for new wireless subscribers as bundle offers spur demand
  • Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France’s Scaleway
  • Jack Dorsey takes on Slack and GitHub with new AI workplace platform Buzz
  • Best alternatives to Chrome and Safari
  • Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
  • State of AI Engineering
  • Search Is Becoming the Control Plane for AI Agents…”…The future of AI agents is searchable tool discovery, not hardcoded APIs. MCP and semantic search are turning tools into capabilities agents can find and use at runtime…”
  • Agent Sprawl Is Your Next Production Incident…“…Agent Sprawl — the condition where AI agent infrastructure complexity (frameworks, models, tool layers, orchestration patterns) grows faster than your ability to measure and govern its reliability…”
  • Software Factories, Light and Dark

Weekly#698

  • The dangers of token usage in billing
  • OpenAI’s First Device Will Be a Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as an AI Companion
  • Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
  • Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3. Kimi K3 contains 2.8 trillion total parameters with a 1-million-token context window.”…In blind testing by AI evaluator Arena, developers preferred Kimi over every leading U.S. model for front-end coding — including Anthropic’s Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol…”
  • Uber in $15 billion deal for Delivery Hero to create global takeout giant
  • Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro…”…because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter…”
  • Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production
  • Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
  • Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
  • Two futures for jobs in an AI era
  • AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes