Weekly#582

  • Microsoft “doubling down” on cybersecurity “…engineering leads at Microsoft are now prioritizing security over new features or shipping products more quickly…”
  • YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8.1 Billion
  • Microsoft Q1 Cloud revenue $35.1 billion
  • AI models inch closer to hacking on their own
  • Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use…Apple’s new AI models, collectively named OpenELM for “Open-source Efficient Language Models,”…
  • JetBrains Launches IDE Services to Simplify Managing Development Tools
  • Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and the 20 other leaders on the new AI safety board
  • Understanding API Technologies: A Comparative Analysis of REST, GraphQL, and Asynchronous APIs
  • QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
  • Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes
  • DragonCrawl: Generative AI for High-Quality Mobile Testing
  • Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon for AI Servers

Weekly#581

  • Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams…Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI
  • Netflix subscribers : 269.6 mio
  • It’s time to retire the term “user
  • Java vs. Scala: Comparative Analysis for Backend Development in Fintech
  • Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions
  • Chronon, Airbnb’s ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source
  • US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
  • DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
  • The AI Device Revolution Isn’t Going to Kill the Smartphone
  • Technology Radar vol.30
  • Stanford AI Index Report 2024

Weekly#580

  • Google Cloud Next ‘24 – a recap
  • Development velocity
  • Elon Musk’s xAI previews Grok-1.5V, its first multimodal model
  • Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk
  • AI Models : “...That’s the most common model for it. And so, today’s models cost of order $100 million to train, plus or minus factor two or three…The models that are in training now and that will come out at various times later this year or early next year are closer in cost to $1 billion. So that’s already happening. And then I think in 2025 and 2026, we’ll get more towards $5 or $10 billion…
  • Big banks are in a race to get AI right…AI Innovation in Banking
  • Humane AI Pin review: not even close
  • Global internal payment fraud system at Delivery Hero
  • Space: The $1.8 Trillion Opportunity for Global Economic Growth
  • Fine porcelain maker Maruwa becomes the hottest bet for cooling AI data centres

Weekly#579

  • Elon Musk announces Tesla will unveil a ‘robotaxi’ on August 8
  • Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally
  • Varda Space’s orbital drug factory success fuels $90M in new funding
  • Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a huge company
  • Engineers Pinpoint Cause of Voyager 1 Issue, Are Working on Solution
  • Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game
  • Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune 3
  • Mars may not have had liquid water long enough for life to form
  • Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model
  • AI Ascent 2024 – Video Playlist