• Book Recommendations from the AWS Enterprise Strategy Team
• Google DeepMind’s new AI assistant helps elite soccer coaches get even better
• Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts
• GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities
• Google Releases Second Android 15 Developer Preview
• Nvidia’s keynote at GTC held some surprises
• World’s first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions
• Cloudflare Open Sources Pingora, a Rust framework for Developing HTTP Proxies
• Fostering an Experimentation Culture in Software Development
• OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings With Film Studios, Directors…pitching its new AI video generation tool, Sora
• Google is bringing satellite messaging to Android 15
• Meet Cherry, an AI shopping assistant that helps you discover products using screenshots or images
• GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities
• BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives access

• 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
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• 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

• 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

• 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

Apple's auto project was always a moonshot. Makes sense to move GenAI up in priority as that will yield more fruit over next 5-10 years than auto projects.

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) February 27, 2024

ROI on AI:

AI is handling 2/3 of Klarna’s customer service chats with a 2 minute resolution time vs. 11 minutes for previously and a 25% drop in repeat inquiries.

AI is going to have a massive impact on every industry. pic.twitter.com/TY0BUCUKm0

— Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) February 28, 2024