2024

• 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…” hbr.org
• OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users…The new software, codenamed “Operator,” is set to be released in January. bloomberg.com
• “…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…” axios.com
• 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. nature.com
• How Monzo run migrations across 2,800 microservices monzo.com
• What happens when Software no longer needs code idan.substack.com
• Google’s Gemini AI now has its own iPhone app theverge.com
• “…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…” axios.com
• Disney’s net income increased to $460 million cnbc.com
• “…Data-rich enterprises like Bayer are working with Microsoft to develop industry-specific gen AI models—and then licensing them to others…” wsj.com
• Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark theverge.com

1/10 Today we're launching FrontierMath, a benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI. We collaborated with 60+ leading mathematicians to create hundreds of original, exceptionally challenging math problems, of which current AI systems solve less than 2%. pic.twitter.com/sNVEB6SvyJ

— Epoch AI (@EpochAIResearch) November 8, 2024

• iPhones on iOS 18.1 will automatically reboot and lock down after being idle for a while appleinsider.com
• ChatGPT traffic is up over 100% year-over-year. NotebookLM is up over 200% month-over-month. similarweb.com
• Taiwan chip output to hit record $165bn on AI demand asia.nikkei.com
• Battery Ventures | State of the OpenCloud | PDF battery.com
• Google rolls out its Gemini AI-powered video presentation app theverge.com
• Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps martinfowler.com
• “…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…” techcrunch.com
• Apache OpenServerless openserverless.apache.org
• How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant…Chegg’s stock is down 99% wsj.com
• How Samsung fell behind in the AI boom leading to a $126 billion wipeout cnbc.com
• Global temperatures likely to exceed key limit for first time axios.com
• The other election night winner: Perplexity techcrunch.com
• Perplexity raising new funds at $9 bln valuation reuters.com
• Microsoft Unveils Enhanced AI Tools for Developers at GitHub Universe infoq.com
• OpenAI acquires chat.com domain name chat.com

• OpenAI Brings Search Features to ChatGPT in Challenge to Google bloomberg.com
• According to Canalys research, global smartphone shipments grew 5% year on year in Q3 2024, reaching 309.9 million units canalys.com
• Apple expands iPhone satellite services deal, commits $1.1bn to expand capacity 9to5mac.com
• Google confirms Android 16 is coming earlier than usual, developer preview begins soon androidauthority.com
• Apple reports fourth quarter results businesswire.com
• Amazon’s cloud unit records highest profit margin in at least a decade cnbc.com
• Meta is making a robot hand that can ‘feel’ touch techcrunch.com
• Kuo: iPhone 17 will use new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip made in-house by Apple 9to5mac.com
• “…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…” wsj.com
• Uranus’ moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface, study finds phys.org
• “…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…” wired.com
• Meta AI has more than 500 million users engadget.com

• Thoughtworks, Technology Radar thoughtworks.com
• Activate 2025 Report activate.com
• Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber uber.com
• Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai anthropic.com
• Anthropic unveils updated AI models with new ‘computer use’ feature for automating complex tasks businesstoday.in
• Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture simonwillison.net
• “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….” nytimes.com
• How to Measure Design System at Scale uber.com
• Streamlining Financial Precision: Uber’s Advanced Settlement Accounting System uber.com
• Making Uber’s ExperimentEvaluation Engine 100x Faster uber.com
• Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense greptile.com
• Apple Intelligence expands in iOS 18.2 developer beta, adding Genmoji, Visual Intelligence and ChatGPT engadget.com
• The year is 2149 and … technologyreview.com

Why is Nginx called a “𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞” proxy?

The diagram below shows the differences between a 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐱𝐲 and a 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐱𝐲.

🔹 A forward proxy is a server that sits between user devices and the internet.

A forward proxy is commonly used for:
1️⃣… pic.twitter.com/wBlUS7obuj

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) October 22, 2024

• State of AI 2024 Report stateof.ai
• Leading with Artificial Intelligence rand.org
• Will AI lead to superintelligence or just super-automation? goldmansachs.com
• bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs that runs directly on CPUs github.com
• “…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…“ nytimes.com
• Artificial intelligence and the economy: implications for central banks bis.org
• Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup reuters.com
• Perplexity lets you search your internal enterprise files and the web venturebeat.com
• Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication infoq.com
• How Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems infoq.com
• 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 qz.com