Weekly#630

  • Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft reverses gains after Tencent-backed spinoff move
  • OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT
  • CoreWeave prices IPO at $40 a share
  • OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding
  • Google Maps can soon scan your screenshots to plan your vacation
  • China’s deep space exploration laboratory starts operation
  • More electricity — and more electricians
  • GitHub Copilot Can Now Run in Windows Terminal
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. has generated and certified so-called truly random numbers using a quantum computer, in a world-first that the bank hopes will have applications for security and trading
  • Turning round Rolls-Royce: ‘If you don’t score quickly, you lose people
  • Latest Memo: The role of developer skills in agentic coding
  • Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here’s why
  • AI-Powered Databases Boost the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Process
  • Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
  • DBS: Transforming a banking leader into a technology leader

Weekly#629

  • Nvidia’s GTC 2025 Keynote
  • AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
  • Apple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report
  • Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here
  • Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition
  • Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram
  • Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
  • Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
  • Severance brought everything together in its season 2 finale
  • Product Playbooks

Weekly#628

  • Talk, Draw, Generate: 10 Ways for Creating Software with AI
  • 9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2025 and Beyond
  • Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI
  • SXSW Sessions
  • 2025 Tech Trends Report by Future Today Institute
  • Klarna, 93 million active consumers and to work with over 675,000 merchants in 26 countries, files for U.S. IPO
  • China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals
  • Gemini replacing Google Assistant on Android phones later in 2025
  • AI summaries are coming to Windows Notepad
  • Apple Plans AirPods Feature That Can Live-Translate Conversations
  • Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first
  • Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek’s accuracy – using only one GPU
  • Carmakers Are Reinventing the Gear Shifter and Drivers Are Lost (WSJ)
  • Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
  • Malware’s AI time bomb
  • How the Four Seasons Hit a Marketing Jackpot With HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ (WSJ)

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