2024

• Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers techcrunch.com
• Meta Platforms To Release Largest Llama 3 Model on July 23 theinformation.com
• SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore in AI push ft.com
• Open AI – AI Stages
  • Level 1: Chatbots, AI with conversational language
  • Level 2: Reasoners, human-level problem solving
  • Level 3: Agents, systems that can take actions
  • Level 4: Innovators, AI that can aid in invention
  • Level 5: Organizations, AI that can do the work of an organization
• Strategic Inflection Point ndupress.ndu.edu
• Pluto’s not coming back, but astronomers want to redefine planets again axios.com
• Optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta theregister.com
• Apple settles EU case by opening its iPhone payment system to rivals theguardian.com
• Arm’s new graphics upscaler is like DLSS for smartphone gaming theverge.com
• Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Cross 500,000 Sales This Year, IDC Says bloomberg.com

• Cloudflare rolls out feature for blocking AI companies’ web scrapers siliconangle.com
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text theverge.com
• In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service techcrunch.com
• Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan macrumors.com
• Figma disables its AI design feature techcrunch.com
• A new initiative for developing third-party model evaluations anthropic.com
• New AI hype alert: Cost-free knowledge axios.com
• Mary Meeker: AI and higher education to be partners axios.com
• Amazon is planning to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on data centers wsj.com
• Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber uber.com
• Mechanical Computer Relies On Kirigami Cubes, Not Electronics news.ncsu.edu
• Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024 blog.cloudflare.com
• What are AI agents? technologyreview.com

• Five new ways to catch gravitational waves nature.com
• Mastering System Design: A Comprehensive Guide to System Scaling for Millions ( Part 1 | Part2 ) dzone.com
• AI is already wreaking havoc on global power systems…By 2034, global energy consumption by data centers is expected to top 1,580 TWh, about as much as is used by all of India. bloomberg.com
• AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload theregister.com
• How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It quantamagazine.org
• Report: Department of Homeland Security Report on Reducing the Risks at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence dhs.gov
• “…Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key – a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content…” theregister.com
• Apple Vision Pro Launches in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore macrumors.com
• Hebbia raises nearly $100M Series B for AI-powered document search led by Andreessen Horowitz techcrunch.com
• Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages theverge.com
• Fujifilm once struggled to sell cameras. Now, it can’t keep up with demand msn.com
• McDonald’s says no thanks to plant-based burgers qz.com
• DNA-based bacterial parasite uses completely new DNA-editing method arstechnica.com
• Out of Sight, ‘Dark Fungi’ Run the World from the Shadows scientificamerican.com
• From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts imbue.com
• Code Galaxies anvaka.github.io

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— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) December 29, 2023

Today we’re announcing Meta LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Meta Code Llama with additional code optimization and compiler capabilities. These models can emulate the compiler, predict optimal passes for code size, and disassemble code. They can be fine-tuned for new… pic.twitter.com/GFDZDbZ1VF

— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) June 27, 2024

• Boost Your Android App’s Performance with Baseline Profiles tech.deliveryhero.com
• Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp reuters.com
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet anthropic.com
• Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness”: AI from now to 2034 axios.com
• Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership wsj.com
• Responsible AI Playbook for Investors www3.weforum.org
• Batteries as a military enabler warontherocks.com
• Apple Announces its First AI Code Generation Model, Swift Assist infoq.com

• Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash bloomberg.com
• Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step wsj.com
• Hackers last week brought down the trust’s pathology services provider bloomberg.com
• The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip…This phenomenon happens roughly every 11 years space.com
• NVIDIA Warp github.com
• Amazon will spend $230 million on generative AI startups techcrunch.com
• Mars astronauts may require kidney dialysis on return interestingengineering.com
• Kubernetes is ten years old cncf.io
• Sleep deprivation disrupts memory: here’s why nature.com
• Chief Asia Officer (in Turkish) chiefasiaofficer.substack.com
• Oracle Is Shutting Down Its Ad Business adweek.com
• Norway discovers Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals cnbc.com
• SoftBank’s new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone asahi.com

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Result Pagination:
This method is used to optimize large result sets by streaming them back to the client, enhancing service responsiveness and user experience.

Asynchronous Logging:
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— Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson) June 13, 2024

• The Simple Macroeconomics of AI, Daron Acemoglu nber.org
• HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic theregister.com
• “…OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Helion to get access to the startup’s not-yet-possible nuclear fusion-driven electricity generators…” theregister.com
• Cloud Efficiency Rate infoq.com
• Managing Architectural Tech Debt dzone.com
• 16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI a16z.com
• Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and beyond infoq.com
• Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event bloomberg.com
• Developers of mini apps on Telegram will now be able to sell digital goods and services decrypt.co
• Apple will support the latest iPhones for at least five years androidauthority.com
• Nearly all of Apple’s newest iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs have an unannounced Thread radio on board theverge.com
• Rene Haas: ‘Arm has the most ubiquitous computer architecture on the planet’ ft.com