Weekly#539

  • FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models, Github
  • Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
  • EC publishes PSD3 proposals
  • programming zines by Julia Evans (@b0rk)
  • Automated Audit Framework For Internet Scale Financial Transactions
  • YouTube tests restricting ad blocker users to 3 video views
  • ASML Hit With New Dutch Limits on Chip Gear Exports to China
  • Satya Nadella said Azure’s cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period
  • Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
  • AI’s Teachable Moment: How ChatGPT Is Transforming the Classroom
  • WEF: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023
  • Who killed Google Reader?…Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
  • Meta is planning to let people in the EU download apps through Facebook
  • Microsoft Empowers Government Agencies with Secure Access to Generative AI Capabilities
  • Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
  • Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT app can now search the web — but only via Bing
  • WhatsApp kills off the Electron-based desktop app, forcing users to switch to the native version
  • Apple stock jumps above $3 trillion valuation for the first time since January 2022


Weekly#538

  • The Remote Playbook (GitLab)
  • TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative
  • Apple’s iOS 17 Will Decode Your Car’s Dashboard Symbols and Warning Lights
  • Apple Vision Pro has a speed limit, Travel Mode required for use on flights
  • Neuralink competitor Precision Neuroscience conducts its first clinical study to map human brain signals
  • Microsoft opened the FTC hearing with a Sony bombshell
  • As the crypto markets continue to face uncertainty, Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong sees greater potential for the digital asset ecosystem to grow.
  • Hospital Cyber Attacks Surge, Risking Struggling Bottom Lines
  • Harvard is encouraging students to use ‘CS50 bot’ as their 24/7 learning assistant.
  • Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro now available
  • Jack Ma-Backed Ant Developing Large Language Model Technology
  • YouTube to launch its first official shopping channel in South Korea, Yonhap reports
  • The economic potential of generative AI
  • Discord Migrates Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Weekly#537

  • Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace
  • AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content
  • UK energy companies are only 57 percent through the rollout of smart meters nearly four years after the government’s first deadline for the £13.5 billion project
  • Open AI :Function calling and other API updates
  • Hackers pulled off a $620 million crypto heist by tricking an engineer into applying for a fake job and opening an offer letter containing spyware, report says
  • ChatGPT prompts: How to optimize for sales, marketing, writing, and more
  • Ben Evans: Vision Pro
  • Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system
  • World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal
  • iOS 17 Gives You 72 Hours to Undo an iPhone Passcode Change
  • 92% of programmers are using AI tools, says GitHub developer survey
  • Google Is Weaving Generative AI Into Online Shopping Features
  • Amazon is using generative A.I. to summarize product reviews
  • Microsoft Is Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model to US Government Agencies

Weekly#536

  • Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro
  • Everything announced at WWDC 2023, as summed up by Apple
    • Apple Vision Pro
    • iOS 17
  • “Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor…The internal codename for the app is “Project 92,” and its public name could be Threads, based on internal documents also seen by The Verge. ..”
  • Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms
  • The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US
  • Exclusive: Google lays out its vision for securing AISAIF
  • an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper
  • WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app
  • Breaking Down the Monolith
  • The power of AI in wildfire prediction and prevention
  • Bringing VR to the Masses Has Been a Decadeslong Challenge

Weekly#535

  • Everything Apple Plans to Show at WWDC: XR Headset, iOS 17 and More
  • Dependency Inversion or Dependency Injection in React: That is the Question
  • Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members
  • How AI-generated video is changing film…the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost.
  • NASA’s Year-Long Mars Simulation Is a Test of Mental Mettle
  • Unified Analytics Platform: Microsoft Fabric
  • Salesforce could be repositioning itself as a data company
  • Rocket Lab’s private mission to Venus slips to 2025
  • Kaspersky says attackers hacked staff iPhones with unknown malware
  • Back-end development platform Platformatic raises $3.5M
  • Japan to launch satellite made of wood in 2024
  • New Device Generates Electricity From Thin Air
  • Studyverse
  • Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix
  • Open a new window somewhere in the world
  • 2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index
  • Microsoft Is Charging Some Office 365 Customers 40% Extra to Test AI Features
  • Apple touts $1.1 trillion in App Store commerce in 2022, with $104B in digital sales
  • AI Canon