Weekly#591

  • Five new ways to catch gravitational waves
  • Mastering System Design: A Comprehensive Guide to System Scaling for Millions ( Part 1 | Part2 )
  • AI is already wreaking havoc on global power systems…By 2034, global energy consumption by data centers is expected to top 1,580 TWh, about as much as is used by all of India.
  • AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload
  • How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
  • Report: Department of Homeland Security Report on Reducing the Risks at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence
  • “…Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key – a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content…”
  • Apple Vision Pro Launches in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore
  • Hebbia raises nearly $100M Series B for AI-powered document search led by Andreessen Horowitz
  • Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages
  • Fujifilm once struggled to sell cameras. Now, it can’t keep up with demand
  • McDonald’s says no thanks to plant-based burgers
  • DNA-based bacterial parasite uses completely new DNA-editing method
  • Out of Sight, ‘Dark Fungi’ Run the World from the Shadows
  • From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts
  • Code Galaxies

Weekly#590

  • Boost Your Android App’s Performance with Baseline Profiles
  • Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet
  • Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness”: AI from now to 2034
  • Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership
  • Responsible AI Playbook for Investors
  • Batteries as a military enabler
  • Apple Announces its First AI Code Generation Model, Swift Assist

Weekly#589

  • Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash
  • Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step
  • Hackers last week brought down the trust’s pathology services provider
  • The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip…This phenomenon happens roughly every 11 years
  • NVIDIA Warp
  • Amazon will spend $230 million on generative AI startups
  • Mars astronauts may require kidney dialysis on return
  • Kubernetes is ten years old
  • Sleep deprivation disrupts memory: here’s why
  • Chief Asia Officer (in Turkish)
  • Oracle Is Shutting Down Its Ad Business
  • Norway discovers Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals
  • SoftBank’s new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone

Weekly#588

  • The Simple Macroeconomics of AI, Daron Acemoglu
  • HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic
  • “…OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Helion to get access to the startup’s not-yet-possible nuclear fusion-driven electricity generators…”
  • Cloud Efficiency Rate
  • Managing Architectural Tech Debt
  • 16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI
  • Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and beyond
  • Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event
  • Developers of mini apps on Telegram will now be able to sell digital goods and services
  • Apple will support the latest iPhones for at least five years
  • Nearly all of Apple’s newest iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs have an unannounced Thread radio on board
  • Rene Haas: ‘Arm has the most ubiquitous computer architecture on the planet