April 2025

There were 2 posts published in April 2025 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#632

  • James Cameron: AI Could Help Cut VFX Costs in Half, Saving Blockbuster Cinema
  • Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India
  • CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
  • “…electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today…”
  • “…The drug discovery market is expected to reach $71 billion in value by 2025 as AI continues to change the industry.On average, it can take anywhere between 10 and 15 years — and sometimes more than $2 billion — for a drug to make it from the bench to final approval from the Food and Drug Administration…”
  • Google introduces Firebase Studio, an end-to-end platform that builds custom apps in-browser
  • Agent Development Kit: Making it easy to build multi-agent applications…A2A Protocol
  • OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1
  • Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude
  • Walmart executives tell Axios the new Trend-to-Product, a “trend-sensing design tool,” shortens the production timeline for fashion items by as much as 18 weeks
  • AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows

Weekly#631

  • YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform ‘New King of All Media’
  • Gmail is making it easier for businesses to send encrypted emails to anyone
  • Amazon’s new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you
  • Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series
  • How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
  • Midjourney releases V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year
  • No Uploads Needed: Google’s NotebookLM AI Can Now ‘Discover Sources’ for You
  • “..DeepMind suggests developers use techniques like amplified oversight, in which two copies of an AI check each other’s output, to create robust systems that aren’t likely to go rogue..”
  • 70% of the 20,000 satellites ever launched remain in space today
  • “…Amazon said next week’s mission — known as Kuiper-1 or KA-1 (for Kuiper Atlas 1) — will put 27 Kuiper satellites into orbit at an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometers)…”
  • Microsoft leaders, past and present, on the company’s legacy and impact
  • The Art of Postmortem
  • Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries