November 2024

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

Weekly#613

  • “…the Big Four hyperscalers have spent $200 billion in capex, and nearly half of that money goes directly to Nvidia…”
  • Who’s winning the AI race
  • OpenAI gets new $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank
  • Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Standups
  • What is an AI agent?
  • Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under 16s to Become Law
  • Amazon Develops Video AI Model, Hedging Its Reliance on Anthropic
  • Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
  • Former Android leaders are building an ‘operating system for AI agents
  • Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History
  • Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
  • Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world
  • “…According to researchers at Fujitsu, the number of parameters in AI systems is growing 32-fold approximately every three years…”

Weekly#612

  • Qwen2.5-Coder Series: Powerful, Diverse, Practical
  • Google Develops AlphaQubit to Identify, Correct Quantum Errors
  • The Department of Justice asks court to force Google to spin off Chrome
  • Nvidia (NVDA) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
  • Companies aren’t prepared for AI-powered bot attacks
  • “…Under the new Windows Resiliency Initiative, Microsoft is working to create a new recovery environment for Windows that will help devices come back online faster if they’re knocked offline…”
  • AI Agents Market Landscape
  • Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Is Valued at $50 Billion in New Funding Round
  • iOS 18.2 beta 4: Here’s what’s new
  • NASA wants SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver cargo to the moon
  • AI eats the world
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth

Weekly#611

  • Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy…”…When language is no longer the barrier, we can employ the full expressivity of human language to convey to the AI higher concepts and logic, that would capture our request in the most compact and effective way…”
  • OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users…The new software, codenamed “Operator,” is set to be released in January.
  • “…Restarting a computer may seem like an inconvenience to those who don’t like waiting, but it’s essential for maintaining performance, stability and security as some malware will remain in memory until a reboot…”
  • AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open…The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.
  • How Monzo run migrations across 2,800 microservices
  • What happens when Software no longer needs code
  • Google’s Gemini AI now has its own iPhone app
  • “…Anthropic is working with the Department of Energy’s nuclear specialists to ensure its models don’t help people make weapons, the company first shared with Axios…”
  • Disney’s net income increased to $460 million
  • “…Data-rich enterprises like Bayer are working with Microsoft to develop industry-specific gen AI models—and then licensing them to others…”
  • Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

Weekly#610

  • iPhones on iOS 18.1 will automatically reboot and lock down after being idle for a while
  • ChatGPT traffic is up over 100% year-over-year. NotebookLM is up over 200% month-over-month.
  • Taiwan chip output to hit record $165bn on AI demand
  • Battery Ventures | State of the OpenCloud | PDF
  • Google rolls out its Gemini AI-powered video presentation app
  • Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps
  • “…However, Cursor has become one of the most popular. Its developer, Anysphere, has seen its revenue grow from $4 million annualized recurring revenue (ARR) in April to $4 million a month as of last month…”
  • Apache OpenServerless
  • How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant…Chegg’s stock is down 99%
  • How Samsung fell behind in the AI boom leading to a $126 billion wipeout
  • Global temperatures likely to exceed key limit for first time
  • The other election night winner: Perplexity
  • Perplexity raising new funds at $9 bln valuation
  • Microsoft Unveils Enhanced AI Tools for Developers at GitHub Universe
  • OpenAI acquires chat.com domain name

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