Weekly#576

  • Why Taiwan Is Building a Satellite Network
  • Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations
  • Swarms of low-cost drones powered by AI
  • PS5 Pro Specs
    • Rendering 45% faster than PS5
    • 2-3x Ray-tracing (x4 in some cases)
    • 33.5 Teraflops
  • Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
  • A Famed Danish Chef Is Offering High-End Space Dining
  • Real estate agents in China turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
  • Google says Chrome’s new real-time URL scanner won’t invade your privacy
  • Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks
  • Azure OpenAI’s “Use Your Data” Feature Now Generally Available
  • Devin, the first AI software engineer
  • Brief History of Scaling Uber

Weekly#575

  • How Does Throttling Work?
  • The AAARRRP Developer Relations Strategy Framework
  • Operating a Large, Distributed System in a Reliable Way
  • Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data’s atomic datacenters for $650M
  • LinkedIn says premium subscriptions bring in $1.7 billion
  • Instagram overtakes TikTok in app downloads in race for new users
  • China is in the process of raising more than $27 billion for its largest chip fund to date
  • Apple’s BNPL Plan Will Show Up on Your Experian Credit Report. Here’s What That Means
  • Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 Models, Highlighting Opus and Its Near-Human Capabilities
  • The many uses of mini-organs
  • AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering
  • A new tool called Writable, which uses ChatGPT to help grade student writing assignments

Weekly#574

  • Smartphone makers are dreaming of a ‘supercycle’ driven by AI. Analysts disagree
  • Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them
  • Chip giant TSMC opens first Japan factory as it diversifies away from Taiwan
  • First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface…more commercial era for space exploration
  • Uber’s CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency
  • Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding
  • Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users
  • Photomath is officially Google’s latest app on the Play Store
  • Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language
  • An AI system that offers emotional support via chat
  • GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak
  • “…Just a decade ago, data centers drew 10 megawatts of power, but 100 megawatts is common today…enough to power around 80,000 U.S. households (U.S. DOE 2020).”
  • Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future
  • Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
  • Search suggestions in Chrome
  • Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed
  • “…Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way…”
  • “…Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog…”
  • The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to science
  • Will NASA be able to return Mars samples to Earth? New audit raises doubts
  • Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio

Weekly#573

  • Nvidia hits $2 trillion valuation
  • Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public…PyRIT can generate thousands of malicious prompts to test a gen AI model, and even score its response.
  • Windows is getting its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
  • Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April
  • Google is sunsetting the Google Pay app in the US later this year
  • Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA
  • Virtual Staging AI helps Realtors digitally furnish rooms within seconds
  • Switzerland calls on UN to explore possibility of solar geoengineering
  • Reddit files to list IPO
  • Mercedes-Benz backs off plan to only sell EVs by 2030
  • Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot’s promises?
  • React 19 introduced

Weekly#572

  • Open AI
    • OpenAI is reportedly making its own search app to compete with Google
    • Sam Altman owns OpenAI’s venture capital fund
    • Open AI new video generating model Sora
  • Every Default macOS Wallpaper
  • Next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
  • Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU
  • How Uber Serves Over 40 Million Reads Per Second from Online Storage Using an Integrated Cache
  • The first Android 15 preview is coming this week
  • How Platform and Site Reliability Engineering Are Evolving DevOps
  • How AI is transforming the business of advertising
  • Kong’s new open source AI Gateway makes building multi-LLM apps easier
  • Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode
  • Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers

Weekly#571

  • World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
  • OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets…Sam Altman is aiming to raise as much as $7 trillion to significantly increase the world’s supply of semiconductor chips
  • US to Launch $5 Billion Research Hub to Stay Ahead in Chip Race
  • Why PayPal needs to fix its Gen Z problem
  • Nvidia chases $30 billion designing custom chip market with new unit
  • Disney’s Epic deal…The $1.5 billion investment 9% stake in Epic Games
  • Fintech startups that could go public in 2024
  • Can a $3,500 headset replace your TV
  • AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers
  • Modern gRPC Microservices: REST Gateways, Part 2
  • Uber posted its first full-year profit since going public in 2019
  • Vision Pro apps (so far)
  • 20+ states exploring support for Apple’s digital IDs in Wallet feature
  • The Future Is Cloud-Native: Are You Ready?

Weekly#570

  • Vision Pro Teardown
  • Apple Vision Pro review: the infinite desktop
  • Devs Can Now Just Say ‘Hey Code’ to Start Copilot Chat in VS Code
  • Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro
  • Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
  • Pinecone Introduces Its Serverless Vector Database
  • DataCentral: Uber’s Big Data Observability and Chargeback Platform
  • How Quora Died
  • Apple ‘preparing’ to buy AI startup with advanced privacy tech to bolster Apple Vision Pro
  • Apple Ramped Up Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year, Filings Show
  • Semantic Product Matching
  • Super Bowl ad cost: a 30-second spot at this year’s game cost about $7 million
  • Google is reportedly rebranding Bard to Gemini and plans to launch a dedicated app
  • The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way
  • Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4
  • Meta Q Results

Weekly#569

  • Apple announces sweeping EU App Store changes
  • Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn
  • Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4
  • Google’s Project IDX brings Android and iOS simulators to the browser
  • The Future of Global Fintech: Towards Resilient and Inclusive Growth
  • AI and emerging technology at Davos 2024
  • Future of cities and local economies at Davos 2024
  • “…“The GitHub token gave ‘unrestricted’ and ‘unmonitored’ access to the entire source code hosted at the internal GitHub Enterprise Server,” Mittal explained in a report shared by TechCrunch…”
  • Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
  • Amazon released a new generative AI feature to answer shopper’s questions
  • Stopping Uber Fraudsters Through Risk Challenges
  • The Mac turns 40
  • Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight
  • Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028
  • Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
  • Discord Scales to 1 Million+ Online MidJourney Users in a Single Server

Weekly#568

  • Scott Galloway – 2024 Predictions
  • Apple begins selling Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature
  • Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Launch With Netflix App
  • Meituan Dips Below 2018 IPO Price as Selloff Reaches Extremes
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  • 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
  • Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet
  • Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuation
  • Meta will have a stockpile of almost 600,000 GPUs by the end of 2024
  • Microsoft is expanding its Copilot AI subscription for Office apps
  • High-Level System Architecture of Booking.com
  • OpenAI announces first partnership with a university
  • Your Tablet’s Light Sensor Can Spy On You
  • Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems

Weekly#567

  • Presto at Uber
  • Evolution of Ads Conversion Optimization Models at Pinterest
  • Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers
  • Google reorganizing Pixel hardware
  • How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority
  • How virtualisation came to Apple silicon Macs
  • Kuo: Apple Will Only Produce Up to 80,000 Vision Pro Headsets for Launch
  • Apple Vision Pro ordering process: iPhone or iPad with Face ID needed, ‘valid, unexpired prescription’ for optical inserts
  • Global Risk Report 2024
  • Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024
  • Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth
  • Vector Databases
  • X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024
  • Music streams hit 4 trillion in 2023
  • HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks
  • Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations