Weekly#620

AI in America – OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint PDF
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….”
From Diagram to Code with Amazon Q Developer
3 qualities Apple looks for in employees: collaboration, curiosity, creativity

Weekly#619

Introducing the DX Core 4…A new framework for measuring developer productivity that encapsulates DORA, SPACE, and DevEx
6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025
TSMC revenue surges 34% to record in 2024 amid AI chip boom
What Spotify’s 55 Million US Subscribers Means for Podcasters, Authors and Musicians
Coding with LLMs
The UPI network now processes more than 13 billion real-time transactions monthly
Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”
The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show
Intuitive Machines set for second landing
“…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
Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch
60 years of spaceflight patches
How we’ll use AI in 2025
The Power of Nvidia’s Systems Thinking Approach