February 2025

There were 4 posts published in February 2025 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#625

  • Three Observations
  • Introducing Perplexity Deep Research
  • How a Software Architect Uses Artificial Intelligence in His Daily Work…In the talk, he gave an example where an online system had the requirement to detect ambiguities
  • Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab
  • Superagency in the workplace
  • AI start-up DeepSeek expands business scope in potential shift towards monetisation
  • xAI has been using an enormous data center in Memphis containing around 200,000 GPUs to train Grok 3
  • Meta Introduces LLM-Powered Tool for Software Testing
  • Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip
  • How WSJ Readers Use AI at Work
  • Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android
  • Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language
  • Skylight Calendar Max review: a game-changer for busy parents
  • OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek’s emergence
  • The Dune survival game launches in May
  • Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals
  • France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes…with a single gram of hydrogen isotopes yielding the energy equivalent of 11 tonnes of coal..
  • Apple launches the iPhone 16E
  • Google builds AI ‘co-scientist’ tool to speed up research (FT)
  • Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon
  • Chinese scientists develop ‘injection’ to make smartphone and EV batteries last longer
  • How AI Can Protect Vital Pipelines and Cables Deep in the Ocean (WSJ)

Weekly#624

  • How Duolingo works: 14 years of big learnings in one little handbook
  • Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots
  • Getting Started With Agentic AI
  • Global electricity demand to rise 4% annually due to AI, other uses…It’s the fastest growth in years as AI, industrial production, air conditioning, EVs and more put new strains on power grids and climate efforts.
  • Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (FT)
  • Airbnb CEO says it’s still too early for AI trip planning…
  • China’s Smartphone Golden Refresh
  • Alibaba to partner with Apple on AI features, sending shares to 3-year high
  • AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds
  • Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age

Weekly#623

  • Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections
  • Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI…Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results
  • 27 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
  • Will China’s open-source AI end U.S. supremacy in the field?
  • The Future of Jobs Report 2025
  • OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s SSI in talks to be valued at $20 billion, sources say
  • AI chip firm Cerebras partners with France’s Mistral, claims speed record
  • Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link
  • Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally
  • Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation
  • OpenAI is considering building data center “campuses” in 16 states that have indicated “real interest” in the project
  • A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis
  • The Long Quest for Artifical Blood
  • “…The AI system, named Daisy, uses voice synthesis to mimic an elderly woman and engages fraudsters in lengthy discussions about fictitious family members or provides false bank details, keeping them occupied for up to 40 minutes per call…”

Weekly#622

  • “…OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model…O3-mini is priced at $0.55 per million cached input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, where a million tokens equates to roughly 750,000 words. That’s 63% cheaper than o1-mini…”
  • “…Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the company was slow to respond to TikTok’s meteoric rise because executives didn’t view it as truly social, offering a rare window into how the tech giant missed one of social media’s biggest shifts in recent years…Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses sold more than 1 million units last year“
  • US Probing If DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips From Firms in Singapore
  • Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
  • LLM Evaluation Tooling – A Review
  • Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
  • Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
  • Hubble’s largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
  • Humanity’s Last Exam
  • Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in 1Q 2025 Results: $36.3B Profit on $124.3B Revenue
  • SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says
  • Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight.The metaphorical clock is set to 89 seconds to midnight.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created clock in 1947
  • Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship
  • Preventing The AI Plateau