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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…”