December 2024

There were 4 posts published in December 2024 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#617

  • Cursor vs GitHub Copilot
  • OpenAI Details Plans for Becoming a For-Profit Company
  • TSMC begins mass production at 1st Japan chip plant in Kumamoto produces logic chips with 12 to 28 nanometer process technologies for use in cars and image sensors for customers such as Sony Group Corp. and auto parts maker Denso Corp.
  • Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI
  • Transitioning From Postman to Insomnia
  • ‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years…Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast
  • The Paper Passport Is Dying
  • Cybersecurity stories in 2024
  • “…Today, a software engineer’s primary desktop is their editor. What is the Mission Control for a software engineer in the era of autonomous development?…”

Weekly#616

  • Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model…The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental…
  • Navigating the AI Frontier: A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents
  • In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation
  • AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion
  • Grammarly is buying Coda to expand AI offerings
  • Sony’s gaming and network services segment accounts for around 37% of its revenue
  • New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
  • ‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
  • Japan Sees Nuclear as Cheapest Baseload Power Source in 2040
  • Do Autonomous Vehicles Outperform Latest-Generation Human-Driven Vehicles?
  • The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia?
  • IOT: Z-Wave LR standard’s range of up to 1 mile and operate on mesh networks that can support as many as 4,000 devices
  • Apple reportedly won’t launch an iPhone subscription service

Weekly#615

  • Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too
  • Google Cloud launches Agentspace to create, deploy agents
  • Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code
  • What Is (or Was) ‘Perks Culture’?
  • Intel executives say a manufacturing spinoff is possible
  • Introducing Gemini 2.0…Gemini 2.0 is the next chapter for Google AI
  • Incident Report for OpenAI
  • Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
  • Palantir EVP: “Modern war cannot be won without software“
  • AI Coding Assistants Landscape
  • “…The other was Heschl’s gyrus, a fold on the upper temporal lobe which hosts the auditory cortex (the cortex is the outermost layer of the brain). Better reading ability was linked to a larger anterior part of the temporal lobe in the left hemisphere compared to the right…”

Weekly#614

  • OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier…o1-preview successfully solved 83% of problems in the International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam, a sharp improvement from GPT-4o’s 13% success rate…
  • Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI tool that can read your screen, launches in preview
  • Amazon Web Services announced it’s launching a new AI supercomputer built from its own machine learning chips that could be one of the largest used to train AI models—and tries to rival chipmaking giant Nvidia.
  • Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond by Werner Vogels
  • AWS re:Invent Videos
  • The levels of code AI
  • Apple Prepares Three-Year Modem Rollout to Outdo Qualcomm
  • “…xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs)…the move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train xAI’s chatbot called Grok…”
  • Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds