2024

• The Intelligence Age ia.samaltman.com
• Jony Ive confirms he’s working on a new device with OpenAI theverge.com
• AI chipmaker Cerebras files for an IPO axios.com
• Pika 1.5 pika.art
• Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator…can create a new video up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt…plans to build the product into its existing apps sometime next year. theverge.com
• HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition paper.hackaprompt.com
• The market share of the Binance shrunk to 36.6% last month, down from 42.7% at the start of the year, according to researcher CCData. bloomberg.com
• Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less techcrunch.com
• OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects techcrunch.com
• ChatGPT’s new voice welcomes interruptions axios.com
• Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords theregister.com
• IBM opens its quantum-computing stack to third parties arstechnica.com

“Architects are not trying to achieve the best… instead what they’re often trying to achieve is the least worst.”

🌟Fantastic talk🌟 on software architecture & trade-offs by @neal4d where you get answers:

1. Design vs. architecture—what’s the difference?
2. Can architecture… pic.twitter.com/rlFrRY5qIc

— Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam) October 4, 2024

• Automatic takeoffs are coming for passenger jets and they’re going to redraw the map of the sky edition.cnn.com
• Toyota and VW fall further behind in the software race…By 2040, digital services and software are expected to make up more than half of auto revenues ft.com
• Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections…“…As the 2024 election cycle ramps up, at least 26 states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications, a new analysis by Axios shows…” axios.com
• HP printers apparently have AI now pcworld.com
• United Airlines Taps Elon Musk’s Starlink for In-Flight Wi-Fi…Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers, Cementing Dominance in Satellite Internet msn.com
• Gmail rolling out Gemini-powered Contextual Smart Replies 9to5google.com
• Microsoft Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users
• “…OpenAI’s revenue in August more than tripled from a year ago, according to the documents, and about 350 million people — up from around 100 million in March…” nytimes.com
• Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos theverge.com
• Meta’s new smart glasses look like the future theverge.com

Linux file permission illustrated.

𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩
Every file or directory is assigned 3 types of owner:

🔹Owner: the owner is the user who created the file or directory.
🔹Group: a group can have multiple users. All users in the group have the same permissions to access… pic.twitter.com/Iuxkc8EM1h

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) September 27, 2024

Why do we need to use a distributed lock? pic.twitter.com/F2WgU9tRA2

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) September 24, 2024

• Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting 2024 oracle.com
• OpenAI Hires Former Coursera Executive to Expand AI Use in Schools bloomberg.com
• OpenAI closes in on largest VC round of all time…OpenAI  is expected raise around $6.5 billion at a $150 billion pre-money valuation axios.com
• T-Mobile Announces Technology Partnership with NVIDIA, Ericsson and Nokia to Advance the Future of Mobile Networking with AI at the Center businesswire.com
• AI will add $19.9 trillion to global economy by 2030 axios.com
• Nvidia teams up with AI firm G42 to create climate tech lab digitimes.com
• Prompt Chaining Guide prompthub.us
• Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments bnnbloomberg.ca
• Dead Internet theory” comes to life with new AI-powered social media app en.wikipedia.org
• House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio theverge.com
• Python in Excel techcommunity.microsoft.com
• Lionsgate, Studio Behind ‘John Wick,’ Signs Deal With AI Startup Runway msn.com
• Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days wsj.com
• JPMorgan, UBS Join BIS Blockchain-Based Plan to Overhaul Cross-Border Payments bloomberg.com
• Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation techcrunch.com
• Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84 arstechnica.com
• Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon understandingai.org

• Exploring Generative AI martinfowler.com
• OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons ft.com
• EU competitiveness report commission.europa.eu
• Billionaire and engineer conduct first private spacewalk in SpaceX mission reuters.com
• Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident theverge.com
• Introducing OpenAI o1-preview openai.com
• Mistral’s new multimodal AI can analyze images without any limits venturebeat.com
• Apple event summary engadget.com
• Unity is killing its Runtime Fee gamedeveloper.com
• As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its crypto library arstechnica.com
• Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap science.nasa.gov
• Building SaaS From Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: A Deep Dive Into a Cloud Startup infoq.com

• Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe osf.io
• Telegram app, which serves nearly one billion monthly active users and more than 10 million subscribers techcrunch.com
• Everything to Expect From Apple’s iPhone 16 Launch on Sept. 9 bloomberg.com
• Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business reuters.com
• OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT bloomberg.com
• “…The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimated that 55.8 million Americans made an in-store payment with Apple Pay in the month of April 2023…” theverge.com
• Europe surpasses 900.000+ Public EV Charge Points evmarketsreports.com
• Resurfacing the past…More than 20,000 ships sank during World War II. One man is on a mission to map them all storymaps.arcgis.com
• Thinking Like an Architect infoq.com
• Visa debuts a new product designed to make it safer to pay directly from your bank account cnbc.com
• Bluetooth Upgrade Boosts Precision Tracking and Device Efficiency bluetooth.com
• Transport for London outages drag into weekend after cyberattack techcrunch.com

• Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)…Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion wsj.com
• OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November. axios.com
• GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation techcrunch.com
• Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others techcrunch.com
• “…Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters…Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new “Remarkable” version of Alexa…” reuters.com
• Gmail users on Android can now chat with Gemini about their emails techcrunch.com
• Day in the Life of a Developer With Google’s Gemini Code Assist: Part 1 dzone.com
• Amazon Q: “…The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work…” linkedin.com
• The rise and fall of OpenSea theverge.com
• Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026 theguardian.com
• Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware’ techcrunch.com
• Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets restofworld.org
• Intuitive Machines wins $116.9M contract for a moon mission in 2027 techcrunch.com
• Intel is looking for ways to save its business…The company plans to reduce capital expenditures by over $10 billion in 2025 qz.com