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    Weekly#669

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    • Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds
      • “...The first is steel. Before steel, buildings in the 19th century had a limit of six or seven floors. Iron was strong but brittle and heavy; add more floors, and the structure collapsed under its own weight. Steel changed everything. It’s strong yet malleable. Frames could be lighter, walls thinner, and suddenly buildings could rise dozens of stories. New kinds of buildings became possible. AI is steel for organizations. It has the potential to maintain context across workflows and surface decisions when needed without the noise. Human communication no longer has to be the load-bearing wall. The weekly two-hour alignment meeting becomes a five-minute async review. The executive decision that required three levels of approval might soon happen in minutes. Companies can scale, truly scale, without the degradation we’ve accepted as inevitable…“
    • Nvidia Reaches Technology Licensing Deal With Startup Groq bloomberg.com
    • How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them arstechnica.com
    • China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks arstechnica.com
    • “…Before public launch, Chinese companies must pepper their models with questions…The regulations call for testing chatbots with 2,000 questions and regular updates of the questions at least once a month…” wsj.com
    • How weight-loss drugs are reshaping fitness gyms axios.com
    • State of Consumer AI 2025 – a16z a16z.news
    • Charts of the Week: Agents start to make an impact? a16z.news
    • AI Minted More Than 50 New Billionaires In 2025 forbes.com
    • 2025 LLM Year in Review karpathy.bearblog.dev
    • When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue msn.com
    • Driverless future gains momentum with global robotaxi deployments reuters.com
    • The relentless rise of YouTube.”…In Septem­ber, You­Tube said it had paid more than $100bn to cre­at­ors, artists and media groups since 2021. In the most recent quarter, You­Tube advert­ising rev­en­ues increased 15 per cent to $10.3bn…” ft.com
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  • Latest issue

    Weekly#668

    25 links · 3 min read

    • Rivian rolls out new ‘Universal Hands-Free’ driving feature techcrunch.com
    • ChatGPT’s mobile app hits new milestone of $3B in consumer spending techcrunch.com
    • Meta’s Yann LeCun targets $3.5 billion valuation for new AI startup reuters.com
    • Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT openai.com
    • Neurable raises $35M for brain-computer interface AI axios.com
    • 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location tomshardware.com
    • How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips reuters.com
    • Why Oracle keeps sparking AI-bubble fears axios.com
    • Formula 1 is deploying new jargon for 2026, now it’s all about corner mode, straight mode, and overtake mode arstechnica.com
    • The inside story of SpaceX’s historic rocket landing that changed launch forever arstechnica.com
    • Bayer analyzed 100 million clinical records to identify 5,000 gene editing candidates in less than a week, work that would have taken years otherwise. This technology amplifies human ingenuity in developing breakthrough medicines. axios.com
    • Apple punted on AI this year. Next year will be critical cnbc.com
    • The 20 best video games of 2025 theguardian.com
    • Goodreads 2025 Books goodreads.com
    • Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents wsj.com
    • Google Cloud lands deal with Palo Alto Networks ‘approaching $10 billion reuters.com
    • Nexperia’s China unit switches to local firms for wafer supplies reuters.com
    • Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide…”…However, zinc in chickpeas would be expected to plummet by up to 37.5%, with a “significant” decrease in protein, zinc and iron in essential crops such as rice and wheat…”…study link theguardian.com
    • Uber CEO says AI is turning his engineers into ‘superhumans‘ businessinsider.com
    • Robot vacuum Roomba maker files for bankruptcy after 35 years msn.com
    • AI and Labor Markets: What We Know and Don’t Know digitaleconomy.stanford.edu
    • Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud theregister.com
    • AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced. technologyreview.com
    • One of Woodward’s key strengths, Google employees said, is his ability to remove bureaucratic barriers so that his team can quickly cook up products cnbc.com
    • How the World of Work Will Change Over the Next 20 Years wsj.com
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  • Latest issue

    Weekly#667

    13 links · 2 min read

    • SpaceX could list at $1 trillion valuation next year, in one of world’s biggest IPOs reuters.com
    • CoPilot Usage Report 2025 PDF microsoft.ai
    • GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle…GPT-5.2 features a 400,000-token context window, allowing it to process hundreds of documents at once, and a knowledge cutoff date of August 31, 2025 theverge.com
    • “…IDC is already predicting fewer smartphone sales in 2026 due to the RAM shortage, and a $9 increase in average phone prices…” theverge.com
    • Google debuts ‘Disco,’ a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs techcrunch.com
    • ‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up cnbc.com
    • Oracle, which has burned around $10 billion in cash in the first half of its fiscal year due to the AI investments reuters.com
    • “…Drugs with annual rev­enue of about $180bn are going off pat­ent in 2027 and 2028, roughly 12 per cent of the global mar­ket, accord­ing to Eval­u­ate Pharma data, with almost every large com­pany affected…” ft.com
    • “China’s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity From World’s Biggest Grid..China now has the biggest power grid the world has ever seen. Between 2010 and 2024, its power production increased by more than the rest of the world combined…with more than 100 data centers in operation or on the way…34 nuclear reactors under construction, according to the World Nuclear Association, and nearly 200 others planned or proposed… Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2030, China will have about 400 gigawatts of spare capacity, about three times the world’s expected data-center power demand at that time…” wsj.com
    • China Prepares as Much as $70 Billion in Chip Sector Incentives bloomberg.com
    • Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix netflixtechblog.com
    • Five AI Security Myths Debunked at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich infoq.com
    • “…Perhaps that is to be expected in the era of TikTok and A.I. Some education experts believe that in the near future, even the most sophisticated stories and knowledge will be imparted mainly through audio and video, the forms that are dominating in the era of mobile, streaming media…” nytimes.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#666

    10 links · 1 min read

    • Netflix to buy Warner Bros. film and streaming assets in $72 billion deal…$59 Billion Loan for Warner Bros. Among Biggest Ever cnbc.com
    • AWS re:Invent youtube.com
    • Why we can’t quit excel bloomberg.com
    • Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it washingtonpost.com
    • “…Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications…” arstechnica.com
    • OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months arstechnica.com
    • A spectacular explosion shows China is close to obtaining reusable rockets arstechnica.com
    • From On-Demand to Live : Netflix Streaming to 100 Million Devices in Under 1 Minute infoq.com
    • Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples nasa.gov
    • QuickTime turns 34 macworld.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#665

    14 links · 1 min read

    • Amazon to Invest $50 Billion Building Data Centers to Support U.S. Government wsj.com
    • Meta in talks to spend billions on Google’s chips reuters.com
    • Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype theverge.com
    • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch, boding well for a longer-term effort to build a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT bloomberg.com
    • How Walmart, Target, and more retailers are infusing AI into their shopping experiences businessinsider.com
    • Volkswagen can now build EVs in China, claiming it can cut costs by up to 50% electrek.co
    • Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad the-decoder.com
    • Tesla loses some AI staff to a new robotics startup businessinsider.com
    • Airbus ordered immediate software fixes for 6,000 A320-series aircraft cnbc.com
    • The cybersecurity race inside Formula One axios.com
    • Baidu is emerging as a major AI chip player in China to fill the Nvidia gap cnbc.com
    • AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes theregister.com
    • China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, nearly nine times as many as the U.S. and more than the rest of the world combined, according to the International Federation of Robotics msn.com
    • Technology Radar thoughtworks.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#664

    14 links · 1 min read

    • AI eats the world – Ben Evans ben-evans.com
    • A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 blog.google
    • Nvidia – The company said net income in the quarter rose 65% to $31.91 billion cnbc.com
    • Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics..DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots wired.com
    • Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand cnbc.com
    • The future of AI’s energy hunger demands every tool available axios.com
    • Google launches Nano Banana Pro, an updated AI image generator powered by Gemini 3 cnbc.com
    • Become an Octopus Organization hbr.org
    • Meta Looks to Power Trading to Support Its AI Energy Needs bloomberg.com
    • Verizon cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it restructures cnbc.com
    • As Windows turns 40, Microsoft faces an AI backlash theverge.com
    • The Godmother of AI Didn’t Expect It to Be This Massive bloomberg.com
    • Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size arstechnica.com
    • Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved phys.org