- 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
June 2025
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…”
Top 5 common ways to improve API performance. pic.twitter.com/Fsgbj2Xfjl
— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) June 15, 2025
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
12 MCP Servers You Can Use in 2025 pic.twitter.com/yOQPBAB81s
— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) May 12, 2025
I had the opportunity to visit one of Apple's Durability Labs this week to see the various methods the company uses to test its hardware. pic.twitter.com/fjbOICfFU8
— Tom Mainelli (@TomMainelli) June 12, 2025
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)
NVIDIA Blackwell has arrived and is serving models >5X faster than Hopper based endpoints @NVIDIAAI pic.twitter.com/1Fyz1rXGww
— Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) June 2, 2025