• Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications
• Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription“…It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions…”
• Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk
• Tractable snaps up $65M led by SoftBank for car and property damage appraisals using AI
• Nvidia nears deal for stake in Lambda Labs – report
• US government launches the Cyber Trust Mark, its long-awaited IoT security labeling program
• Microsoft launches vector search in preview, voice cloning in general availability
• Tesla launches ‘Charge on Solar’ to charge your cars with sunshine“…Your vehicle will charge from solar and the grid when your current charge level is below the left sun slider. After your vehicle’s charge level passes the sun slider, your vehicle automatically switches to only charge on excess solar up to your charge limit…”
• “Telecom Italia…about 25 years ago a group of executives from the carrier flew to California to meet Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with an audacious plan to buy the tech company at a time it was struggling to make headway against rivals like International Business Machines Corp…”
• Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October
• “…The newest feature of ChatGPT…It’s called “custom instructions,” and it gives you a place to tell your chatbot the things it should always know about you and how you’d like it to respond to your questions. …It should be particularly helpful on mobile devices…”
• GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
• Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work
• Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. Mojo programming manual
• “…As of May 2023, around 440 nuclear reactors were operating in 33 countries with a capacity of 390GWe, according to the World Nuclear Association, while a further 60 power reactors are being constructed in 15 countries including China, India and Russia…”
• Sergey Brin Is Back in the Trenches at Google
• NASA’s Psyche Mission Enters Home Stretch Before Launch
• Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

• Elon Musk says Twitter’s cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops 50%
• Crunchyroll has more than 100 million registered members, including 11 million paid users…ow the largest anime-dedicated streaming platform in the world, it was bought by Sony in a $1.2 billion deal announced in 2020
• Podcast: Engineering Insights with Christina Forney
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• “…By 2030, data centers are expected to reach 35 gigawatts of power consumption annually, up from 17 gigawatts last year, according to McKinsey. A recent Cowen research report estimated that AI data centers could require more than five times the power of traditional facilities…”
• Of the 34% of organizations surveyed that use AI to create new KPIs, 90% see improvements.
• Google Play Games beta for PC expands to over 60 new countries
• Netflix: Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1, Part2
• Remote work could cut the value of office buildings by $800 billion by 2030 — with San Francisco facing a ‘dire outlook,’ McKinsey predicts
• The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
• “…AI Researcher Who Helped Write Landmark Paper Is Leaving Google…Llion Jones, who helped write the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need…”

• “…The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high…The globe’s average temperature reached 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday“
• Why Are Team Topologies Essential for Software Architecture and Software Development Efficiency?
• AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
• Visa acquires core banking platform Pismo for $1bn
• Android phone hits 24GB of RAM, as much as a 13-inch MacBook Pro
• Mark Zuckerberg says more than 10 million people signed up for Meta’s Threads in the first 7 hours of the app’s launch
• OpenAI announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its API.
• Nine British Banks Sign Up to New AI Tool for Tackling Scams
• “ChatGPT’s explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch…Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, the data shows…”
• Blue Origin is planning to open new launch sites outside the US
• Worldwide Public Cloud Services Revenues Surpass $500 Billion in 2022, Growing 22.9% Year Over Year
• Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform the way science gets done
• Microsoft could soar 22% and will top a $3 trillion valuation as it’s best positioned to monetize generative AI, Morgan Stanley says

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!

Explore the connectome: https://t.co/EWcwRiO0Oz

Reconstruction paper: https://t.co/wCI3hASUfD
Annotation paper: https://t.co/3bPTNK9hRk
1/6 pic.twitter.com/dxyZIhSITg

— Sven Dorkenwald (@sdorkenw) June 30, 2023

A picture is worth a thousand words: 9 best practices for developing microservices.

When we develop microservices, we need to follow the following best practices:

1. Use separate data storage for each microservice
2. Keep code at a similar level of maturity
3. Separate build… pic.twitter.com/tVI1ccXSY6

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) July 4, 2023