Weekly#627

  • Speed as a Habit
  • Software Design: What went wrong?
  • Kuo: Apple’s First Foldable iPhone to Feature Book-Style Design, Sell for Over $2,000
  • Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in attacks
  • iOS 18.4 beta introduces AI-powered review summaries in the App Store
  • Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI Action Plan
  • Google begins testing AI-only search results
  • Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements
  • Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript
  • The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows Executives and Employees Investing in AI, but Uncertainty Holding Back Adoption
  • The new politics of AI: Why fast technological change requires bold policy targets
  • Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
  • Meta is targeting ‘hundreds of millions’ of businesses in agentic AI deployment
  • US communications agency to explore alternatives to GPS systems
  • Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters
  • ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code
  • A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated

Weekly#626

  • Introducing GPT-4.5
  • Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
  • AI-Powered Ransomware Attacks
  • Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025
  • Intel delays its Ohio chip factory to 2030
  • Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac
  • Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year
  • IBM closes $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition
  • Microsoft Releases BioEmu-1: A Deep Learning Model for Protein Structure Prediction
  • GitHub Copilot Extensions Integrate IDEs with External Services
  • There are 3 private lunar landers headed to the moon right now — a 1st in space history
  • Silicon Reimagined…New foundations for the age of AI.
  • Future of AI Research
  • Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards
  • Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday
  • The End of Programming as We Know It
  • Meet the AI agent engineer