August 2023

There were 4 posts published in August 2023 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#547

  • New York Times, CNN and Australia’s ABC block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing content
  • ARM IPO F-1 document
  • Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change
  • What prevents search orgs from being successful?
  • First Pass Ranker and Ad Retrieval, Ad Level Optimization for Reddit Ads
  • “…In 2022, AirPods reportedly brought in $14.5 billion in revenue. Assuming a 50% profit margin, that’s over $7 billion in profit just from a single product. To put this into perspective, AirPods is more profitable than Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Snapchat and eBay. Combined…”
  • AI-powered brain implants help paralyzed patients communicate faster than ever
  • California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems…New system scans over 1,000 cameras for signs of smoke—with 77 hits so far.
  • Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn…The average critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail is 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius).
  • Drought affecting Panama Canal threatens 40% of world’s cargo ship traffic
  • Nvidia press release announcing the company’s financial results, which include a quarterly revenue of $13.51 billion, up 101 percent from a year ago and 88 percent from the previous quarter.
  • Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

Weekly#546

  • “…Some of the world’s biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle to consumer goods multinational Unilever, are experimenting with using generative AI software like ChatGPT and DALL-E to cut costs and increase productivity, executives say…”
  • What Is FraudGPT?
  • SoftBank is currently in talks to list Arm at a valuation of $60 billion to $70 billion in the IPO, which is expected to happen in September
  • Best Books for Software Engineering Leaders
  • Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia’s H100 chips
  • OpenAI said it had acquired digital products company Global Illumination, in what comes as the first known acquisition by the storied artificial intelligence firm
  • SpaceX Targets $150 Billion Valuation
  • Neuroscientists decode song from brain recordings, revealing areas dealing with rhythm and vocals

Weekly#545

  • Blackhat 2023
  • Analyzing the Security of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
  • Ai4 2023 Day One Main Stage Recap
  • Ai4 2023 Day Two Main Stage Recap
  • China’s internet giants order $5 bln of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions
  • Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Project Worldcoin Is Having An Identity Crisis
  • To disallow GPTBot to access your site
  • Zoom Ends No-Meeting Wednesday Policy, Calling It ‘Barrier to Collaboration’
  • “…Once again we can learn about IT strategy and architecture from popular culture: the engine room matters…”
  • Volume Down, Subtitles On: 51% of Us Read Along With Our Favorite Shows
  • Anthropic launches improved version of its entry-level LLM
  • Jeli is bringing generative AI to incident report analysis
  • July was world’s hottest month on record, climate scientists confirm
  • Video calls are coming to X, formerly Twitter, CEO confirms

Weekly#544

  • Claimed superconductor LK-99 is an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short
  • Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood
  • Qualcomm, NXP Team Up to Develop Rival to Arm Chip Standard
  • Apple Tops 1 Billion Paid Subscriptions, Services Revenue Climbs to Record $21.2 Billion in June Quarter
  • AWS segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $22.1 billion…Amazon’s online advertising unit just brought in over $10 billion in the second quarter
  • Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI
  • Spotify introduces new product to help software development teams with A/B testing
  • The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber’s Tech-Wide Hackathon
  • Uber reports first quarterly operating profit in Q2 2023 results
  • Google is offering an on-campus hotel ‘special’ to help lure workers back to the office
  • Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles by Targeting One Platform
  • Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online
  • How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?
  • Google Cloud Skills Boost – generative AI courses
  • Introduction to Generative AI
  • Introduction to Large Language Models
  • Transformer Models and BERT Model
  • Introduction to Image Generation
  • Building Generative AI Applications with Gradio
  • Generative AI with Large Language Models