OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can do tasks on the web
Mark Zuckerberg: “…Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan. We’ll bring online ~1GW of compute in ’25 and we’ll end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. We’re planning to invest $60-65B in capex this year…”
“…When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene…DeepSeek’s engineers said they needed only about 2,000 specialized computer chips from the U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, in comparison to the as many as 16,000 chips needed by major American companies…DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
“… 75% of organizations report an erosion of customer trust following a cyber incident, with damaging effects on business performance and brand reputation…”
“…By 2035, the space economy is set to reach $1.8 trillion up from $630 billion in 2023 and averaging a growth rate of 9% a year…”
“…By 2026, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts electricity consumption for data centres alone could reach 1,000 TWh – roughly the equivalent to the energy consumption of Japan…”
“…The researchers, who presented their work last month at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, wondered if they could control streetlights in Berlin to create a city-wide version…”
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025…In a complex cyberspace characterized by geopolitical uncertainties, widening cyber inequity and sophisticated cyberthreats, leaders must adopt a security-first mindset…
A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Plans $1 Billion Factory in Ohio
Nvidia releases microservices to safeguard AI agents
German Robot Maker Neura Robotics Raises €120 Million
About 60% of Gemini’s paying users kept their subscriptions six months after first signing up (WSJ)
AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
Civilization VII preview: The most complete package since IV
Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand
Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into orbit
HuatuoGPT-o1: Advancing Complex Medical Reasoning with AI
“…most SMR projects will not be ready until at least the 2030s” (FT)
Making new nuclear power viable in the energy transition
Make Better Strategic Decisions Around Slow-Developing Technology
There’s a Better Way to Predict a Technology’s Future: Follow the Rate of Change (WSJ)”…“You can predict the direction of technology and what is scalable, with 60% to 70% accuracy,” says Khosla,…You just can’t get there by asking up-or-down questions about a moment in time….”
“…StackOverflow, once the favoured destination of developers in search of coding help, is suffering from declining activity, with new questions tumbling 75 percent since their peak in 2017, and down 60 percent year-on-year in December 2024…”
Quantum computing stocks tank as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the tech won’t be viable for another 20 years
2024 was the first year above 1.5C of global warming, scientists say
Wener Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computers Won’t Be Very Useful for Another 20 Years
Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles
AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives
Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist
Rivian wraps 2024 with more than 50,000 EVs delivered
“…More broadly, the history business is booming. In 2023, people in the UK and Ireland spent more on history books than at any point since Nielsen BookData’s records began in 1998…”
Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
Constellation inks $1 billion deal to supply US government with nuclear power
Hackers target dozens of VPN and AI extensions for Google Chrome to compromise data
How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately
NATO plans to build satellite links as backups to undersea cables