August 2024

There were 5 posts published in August 2024 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#600

  • Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)…Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
  • OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November.
  • GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
  • Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
  • “…Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters…Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new “Remarkable” version of Alexa…”
  • Gmail users on Android can now chat with Gemini about their emails
  • Day in the Life of a Developer With Google’s Gemini Code Assist: Part 1
  • Amazon Q: “…The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work…”
  • The rise and fall of OpenSea
  • Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026
  • Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware’
  • Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
  • Intuitive Machines wins $116.9M contract for a moon mission in 2027
  • Intel is looking for ways to save its business…The company plans to reduce capital expenditures by over $10 billion in 2025

Weekly#599

  • AI-driven coding assistants have amassed nearly $1bn of funding since the start of last year
  • Microsoft plans September cybersecurity event to discuss changes after CrowdStrike outage
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio Exploit Leaks Sensitive Cloud Data
  • How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing
  • Second Human to Receive Neuralink Brain Chip Uses It to Play Counter-Strike 2
  • New Washington Post AI tool sifts massive data sets
  • Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell
  • OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
  • AI Market Dynamics: Open Vs. Closed, Direct Vs. Indirect
  • iOS 18 adding default app controls for messaging, phone calls, navigation, and more in the EU
  • Twinkle Tray: Brightness Slider
  • After changing its license, Redis drops its biggest release yet

Weekly#598

  • Apple Pushes Ahead With Tabletop Robot in Search of New Revenue
  • Apple is opening the iPhone’s NFC chip to third-party apps with iOS 18.1
  • Grok-2 Beta Release
  • Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11
  • Top 100 AI Tools
  • How the CrowdStrike Tech Outage Reignited a Battle Over the Heart of Microsoft Systems
  • California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters…SB 1047’s rules would only apply to the world’s largest AI models: ones that cost at least $100 million and use 10^26 FLOPS during training
  • Researchers figure out how to keep clocks on the Earth, Moon in sync…A single standardized Earth/Moon time would aid communications, enable lunar GPS.
  • Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60
  • Istanbul Reckons With the Danger Below Its Busy Streets
  • Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser
  • List of Use Cases Unsuitable for LLM and GenAI

Weekly#597

  • Anthropic wants to pay hackers to find model flaws
  • Boston is turning to Google AI to help with road traffic
  • Temu’s founder is now the richest person in China
  • Building A Generative AI Platform
  • Cities aren’t ready to handle EV fires, experts say
  • Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever
  • FCC proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts
  • “Intel is bringing GPUs to cars…The GPUs will allow voice, camera and gesture recognition to make it easy to control up to “seven high-definition screens rendering 3D graphics and six-in vehicle cameras and interactive features…”
  • NEP: Notification System and Relevance
  • Maestro: Data/ML Workflow Orchestrator at Netflix
  • Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding
  • Embracing Serverless in a 1951 Founded Enterprise
  • “…Amazon has teamed up with TikTok and Pinterest to make it more convenient for users to shop directly from the social media apps without the need to leave the platforms, a move it hopes will boost revenue….”

Weekly#596

  • Chrome is going to use AI to help you compare products from across your tabs
  • Meta is making AI pay — in advertising…Meta’s Advantage+, which lets businesses automate parts of their advertising campaigns
  • The Summer Games are facing a long list of nation-state and criminal cyber threats that will likely intensify over the next six weeks
  • Intel expects to reduce headcount by greater than 15% with the majority completed by the end of 2024. Second-quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, down 1% year over year (YoY).
  • CISA names first-ever chief AI officer
  • Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users
  • LangGraph Studio: The first agent IDE
  • Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race
  • Reducing the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
  • Apple reports record Q3 2024 earnings with $85.78 billion in revenue
  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
  • How to Think Clearly in Turbulent Times: Lessons from Charlie Munger