Weekly#643

  • Meta hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working at the ChatGPT-owner’s Zurich office, the WSJ reported
  • Starlink helps eight more nation pass 50% IPv6 Adoption
  • Microsoft is retiring the infamous ‘blue screen of death
  • 36% of Chinese Undergraduates Choose Engineering, Compared To 5% in US and UK in 2022
  • Google Convinces OpenAI to Use TPU Chips in Win Against Nvidia
  • Meta seeks $29bn from private credit giants to fund AI data centres (FT)
  • Boeing Co. predicted airlines will need 43,600 new aircraft over the next 20 years
  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): Enhancing Software Transparency and Security
  • Introducing the Anthropic Economic Futures Program
  • YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS
  • Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 (WEF)
  • The Future of Global Fintech (WEF)
  • Moving AI compute to phones massively reduces power use, study finds
  • The five seismic shifts that will reshape communications
  • 7 People Now Have Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Implant

Weekly#642

  • Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage
  • Meta’s Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
  • Breaking down the infinite workday
  • Expert Generalists
  • ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
  • Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
  • Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
  • Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City
  • Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI
  • NFC Release 15: The what, why and how
  • “…DNSFilter has found that one in every 644 clicks on unsubscribe links that say “click here to unsubscribe” leads users to potentially malicious websites…”

Weekly#641

  • ..energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours
  • …Those high-agency product managers that have understood that they are responsible for value and viability, and all that entails, are ideally suited for the AI-powered future
  • Barbie-maker Mattel teams up with OpenAI, eyes first AI-powered product this year
  • Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six “pillars” in order to simplify its structure
  • Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta as part of $14.3 billion deal
  • Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
  • Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them
  • Google is killing Android Instant Apps, but you probably won’t miss them
  • Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta
  • Meta inks a new geothermal energy deal to support AI
  • Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews

Weekly#640

  • “…AI startups revolutionize coding industry, leading to sky-high valuations…They’re also at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, which all announced new code-gen products in May, and Anthropic is also working on one as well, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters…”
  • Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
  • How AI models may forecast the world’s next wildfires
  • Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
  • Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
  • Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?
  • More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?
  • Elon Musk projects SpaceX revenue of about $15.5 billion in 2025
  • Bristol Myers agrees up to $11.1 billion deal with BioNTech
  • Agentic AI Systems: Smarter Automation With LangChain and LangGraph
  • “…Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday inked a 20-year deal with power giant Constellation Energy to keep a large Illinois nuclear plant running until mid-century…”
  • Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI (WSJ)
  • Polymarket | Which company has best AI model end of 2025?
  • Meta Seeks Hollywood Deals for New Virtual-Reality Headset (WSJ)
  • Vibe coding’ is the new DIY (FT)