Weekly#609

  • OpenAI Brings Search Features to ChatGPT in Challenge to Google
  • According to Canalys research, global smartphone shipments grew 5% year on year in Q3 2024, reaching 309.9 million units
  • Apple expands iPhone satellite services deal, commits $1.1bn to expand capacity
  • Google confirms Android 16 is coming earlier than usual, developer preview begins soon
  • Apple reports fourth quarter results
  • Amazon’s cloud unit records highest profit margin in at least a decade
  • Meta is making a robot hand that can ‘feel’ touch
  • Kuo: iPhone 17 will use new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip made in-house by Apple
  • “…Visa, President of Technology Rajat Taneja said the company already has more than 500 generative artificial intelligence applications in use…Visa’s deployments include a tool that finds security bugs in code, chatbots designed to act as subject matter experts on various areas of the business and a tool that helps subscribers customize timings of their billing cycles…”
  • Uranus’ moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface, study finds
  • “…We’re training the Llama 4 models on a cluster that is bigger than 100,000 H100s, or bigger than anything that I’ve seen reported for what others are doing…”
  • Meta AI has more than 500 million users