2024

• How Does Throttling Work? linkedin.com
• The AAARRRP Developer Relations Strategy Framework leggetter.co.uk
• Operating a Large, Distributed System in a Reliable Way blog.pragmaticengineer.com
• Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data’s atomic datacenters for $650M theregister.com
• LinkedIn says premium subscriptions bring in $1.7 billion reuters.com
• Instagram overtakes TikTok in app downloads in race for new users ft.com
• China is in the process of raising more than $27 billion for its largest chip fund to date bloomberg.com
• Apple’s BNPL Plan Will Show Up on Your Experian Credit Report. Here’s What That Means cnet.com
• Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 Models, Highlighting Opus and Its Near-Human Capabilities infoq.com
• The many uses of mini-organs technologyreview.com
• AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering spectrum.ieee.org
• A new tool called Writable, which uses ChatGPT to help grade student writing assignments axios.com

• Smartphone makers are dreaming of a ‘supercycle’ driven by AI. Analysts disagree cnbc.com
• Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them theverge.com
• Chip giant TSMC opens first Japan factory as it diversifies away from Taiwan cnbc.com
• First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface…more commercial era for space exploration scientificamerican.com
• Uber’s CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency infoq.com
• Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding cnbc.com
• Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users techcrunch.com
• Photomath is officially Google’s latest app on the Play Store 9to5google.com
• Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language infoq.com
• An AI system that offers emotional support via chat techxplore.com
• GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak bleepingcomputer.com
• “…Just a decade ago, data centers drew 10 megawatts of power, but 100 megawatts is common today…enough to power around 80,000 U.S. households (U.S. DOE 2020).” nytimes.com
• Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future techcrunch.com
• Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention infoq.com
• Search suggestions in Chrome techcrunch.com
• Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed techcrunch.com
• “…Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way…” wired.com
• “…Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog…” arstechnica.com
• The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to science sciencenews.org
• Will NASA be able to return Mars samples to Earth? New audit raises doubts space.com
• Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio cnbc.com

Apple's auto project was always a moonshot. Makes sense to move GenAI up in priority as that will yield more fruit over next 5-10 years than auto projects.

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) February 27, 2024

ROI on AI:

AI is handling 2/3 of Klarna’s customer service chats with a 2 minute resolution time vs. 11 minutes for previously and a 25% drop in repeat inquiries.

AI is going to have a massive impact on every industry. pic.twitter.com/TY0BUCUKm0

— Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) February 28, 2024

• Nvidia hits $2 trillion valuation reuters.com
• Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public…PyRIT can generate thousands of malicious prompts to test a gen AI model, and even score its response. zdnet.com
• Windows is getting its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos theverge.com
• Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April techcrunch.com
• Google is sunsetting the Google Pay app in the US later this year techcrunch.com
• Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA medium.com
• Virtual Staging AI helps Realtors digitally furnish rooms within seconds techcrunch.com
• Switzerland calls on UN to explore possibility of solar geoengineering theguardian.com
• Reddit files to list IPO cnbc.com
• Mercedes-Benz backs off plan to only sell EVs by 2030 theverge.com
• Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot’s promises? theregister.com
• React 19 introduced devclass.com

We are actually on the cusp of two S curves simultaneously. AI and Spatial/XR computing. Fun times! https://t.co/Vf0yNbcU2c

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) February 22, 2024

• Open AI
  • OpenAI is reportedly making its own search app to compete with Google
  • Sam Altman owns OpenAI’s venture capital fund axios.com
  • Open AI new video generating model Sora mashable.com
• Every Default macOS Wallpaper 512pixels.net
• Next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 blog.google
• Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU arstechnica.com
• How Uber Serves Over 40 Million Reads Per Second from Online Storage Using an Integrated Cache uber.com
• The first Android 15 preview is coming this week 9to5google.com
• How Platform and Site Reliability Engineering Are Evolving DevOps infoq.com
• How AI is transforming the business of advertising ft.com
• Kong’s new open source AI Gateway makes building multi-LLM apps easier techcrunch.com
• Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode theverge.com
• Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers theverge.com

• World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit bbc.com
• OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets…Sam Altman is aiming to raise as much as $7 trillion to significantly increase the world’s supply of semiconductor chips ft.com
• US to Launch $5 Billion Research Hub to Stay Ahead in Chip Race bloomberg.com
• Why PayPal needs to fix its Gen Z problem ft.com
• Nvidia chases $30 billion designing custom chip market with new unit reuters.com
• Disney’s Epic deal…The $1.5 billion investment 9% stake in Epic Games reuters.com
• Fintech startups that could go public in 2024 techcrunch.com
• Can a $3,500 headset replace your TV arstechnica.com
• AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers arstechnica.com
• Modern gRPC Microservices: REST Gateways, Part 2 dzone.com
• Uber posted its first full-year profit since going public in 2019 apnews.com
• Vision Pro apps (so far) techcrunch.com
• 20+ states exploring support for Apple’s digital IDs in Wallet feature 9to5mac.com
• The Future Is Cloud-Native: Are You Ready? dzone.com

Ep 1 Product 101: Apple Vision Pro@caro_milanesi @BenBajarin and @MaxWinebach talk Apple Vision Pro on the launch episode of Product 101.

Chapters below to jump to specific discussions on product features. 👇

(00:00) Introduction to Product 101
(01:13) Standout Experiences… pic.twitter.com/NhncjNSj3l

— Creative Strategies, Inc (@creativestrat) February 9, 2024

• Vision Pro Teardown ifixit.com
• Apple Vision Pro review: the infinite desktop techcrunch.com
• Devs Can Now Just Say ‘Hey Code’ to Start Copilot Chat in VS Code visualstudiomagazine.com
• Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro vanityfair.com
• Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead arstechnica.com
• Pinecone Introduces Its Serverless Vector Database infoq.com
• DataCentral: Uber’s Big Data Observability and Chargeback Platform uber.com
• How Quora Died slate.com
• Apple ‘preparing’ to buy AI startup with advanced privacy tech to bolster Apple Vision Pro 9to5mac.com
• Apple Ramped Up Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year, Filings Show wired.com
• Semantic Product Matching tech.deliveryhero.com
• Super Bowl ad cost: a 30-second spot at this year’s game cost about $7 million qz.com
• Google is reportedly rebranding Bard to Gemini and plans to launch a dedicated app engadget.com
• The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way technologyreview.com
• Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4 techcrunch.com
• Meta Q Results investor.fb.com

Ok… My first impressions after playing with it for a few hours:

1. The pass-through is not as mind-blowing as I expected. It's the best I've ever seen in a VR headset but, the way I was hearing it described was like looking through a piece of glass… It wasn't for me. I can… pic.twitter.com/vNAzzBj0VL

— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) February 3, 2024