Weekly#608

  • Thoughtworks, Technology Radar
  • Activate 2025 Report
  • Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber
  • Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
  • Anthropic unveils updated AI models with new ‘computer use’ feature for automating complex tasks
  • Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture
  • “In 2005…Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive at the time, presented the board with a startling idea: Buy Nvidia, a Silicon Valley upstart known for chips used for computer graphics. The price tag: as much as $20 billion….”
  • How to Measure Design System at Scale
  • Streamlining Financial Precision: Uber’s Advanced Settlement Accounting System
  • Making Uber’s ExperimentEvaluation Engine 100x Faster
  • Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
  • Apple Intelligence expands in iOS 18.2 developer beta, adding Genmoji, Visual Intelligence and ChatGPT
  • The year is 2149 and

Weekly#607

  • State of AI 2024 Report
  • Leading with Artificial Intelligence
  • Will AI lead to superintelligence or just super-automation?
  • bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs that runs directly on CPUs
  • …The contract contains a clause that says that if OpenAI builds artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I. — roughly speaking, a machine that matches the power of the human brain — Microsoft loses access to OpenAI’s technologies
  • Artificial intelligence and the economy: implications for central banks
  • Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup
  • Perplexity lets you search your internal enterprise files and the web
  • Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication
  • How Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems
  • The next winner of the AI boom is also one of its biggest problems…Data centers could consume up to 9% of electricity in the U.S. by the end of the decade

Weekly#606

  • Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
  • AI gets its Nobel moment
    • Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins — life’s building blocks
    • Agents are the future AI companies promise — and desperately need
  • Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month
  • OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown
  • AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell
  • Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You
  • Google identifies low noise “phase transition” in its quantum processor
  • Linear Regression
  • 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
  • Mainstreaming Food Innovation: A Roadmap for Stakeholders
  • Google’s Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge

Weekly#605

  • The Intelligence Age
  • Jony Ive confirms he’s working on a new device with OpenAI
  • AI chipmaker Cerebras files for an IPO
  • Pika 1.5
  • Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator…can create a new video up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt…plans to build the product into its existing apps sometime next year.
  • HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition
  • The market share of the Binance shrunk to 36.6% last month, down from 42.7% at the start of the year, according to researcher CCData.
  • Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
  • OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
  • ChatGPT’s new voice welcomes interruptions
  • Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords
  • IBM opens its quantum-computing stack to third parties