2024

• Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams…Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI reuters.com
• Netflix subscribers : 269.6 mio cnbc.com
• It’s time to retire the term “user” technologyreview.com
• Java vs. Scala: Comparative Analysis for Backend Development in Fintech dzone.com
• Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions infoq.com
• Chronon, Airbnb’s ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source medium.com
• US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight theverge.com
• DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1 blog.cloudflare.com
• The AI Device Revolution Isn’t Going to Kill the Smartphone bloomberg.com
• Technology Radar vol.30 thoughtworks.com
• Stanford AI Index Report 2024 aiindex.stanford.edu

• Google Cloud Next ‘24 – a recap cloud.google.com
• Development velocity greptile.com
• Elon Musk’s xAI previews Grok-1.5V, its first multimodal model venturebeat.com
• Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk techcrunch.com
• AI Models : “...That’s the most common model for it. And so, today’s models cost of order $100 million to train, plus or minus factor two or three…The models that are in training now and that will come out at various times later this year or early next year are closer in cost to $1 billion. So that’s already happening. And then I think in 2025 and 2026, we’ll get more towards $5 or $10 billion…“ nytimes.com
• Big banks are in a race to get AI right…AI Innovation in Banking axios.com
• Humane AI Pin review: not even close theverge.com
• Global internal payment fraud system at Delivery Hero tech.deliveryhero.com
• Space: The $1.8 Trillion Opportunity for Global Economic Growth weforum.org
• Fine porcelain maker Maruwa becomes the hottest bet for cooling AI data centres ft.com

• Elon Musk announces Tesla will unveil a ‘robotaxi’ on August 8 edition.cnn.com
• Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally techcrunch.com
• Varda Space’s orbital drug factory success fuels $90M in new funding techcrunch.com
• Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a huge company techcrunch.com
• Engineers Pinpoint Cause of Voyager 1 Issue, Are Working on Solution blogs.nasa.gov
• Roku’s New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game kotaku.com
• Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune 3 theverge.com
• Mars may not have had liquid water long enough for life to form arstechnica.com
• Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model ft.com
• AI Ascent 2024 – Video Playlist youtube.com

• Educators divided over AI’s impact axios.com
• CodableRPC: An iOS UI Testing Power Tool reddit.com
• Xiaomi releases electric car $4K cheaper than Tesla’s Model 3 cnbc.com
• The Field Guide to Non-Engagement Signals medium.com
• Major companies put U.S. cyber defenses to the test in simulated attack axios.com
• Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in real life axios.com
• NYC will test AI gun detectors on the subway theverge.com
• Model Excellence Scores: A Framework for Enhancing the Quality of Machine Learning Systems at Scale uber.com
• Scaling AI/ML Infrastructure at Uber uber.com
• 30 books that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates recommend reading businessinsider.com
• 20 years of Gmail theverge.com
• Being a Backend Developer Today Feels Harder Than 20 Years Ago dzone.com
• How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU spectrum.ieee.org
• Amazon concludes $4 billion investment in Anthropic aboutamazon.com
• How Apple plans to update new iPhones without opening them arstechnica.com
• Distributed Caching: Enhancing Performance in Modern Applications dzone.com
• Monitoring Generative AI Applications in Production dzone.com
• Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving the cloud-computing giant the firepower to handle an expected explosion in demand for artificial intelligence applications and other digital services. au.finance.yahoo.com

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