August 2025

There were 4 posts published in August 2025 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#651

  • America Should Rent, Not Sell, AI Chips to China
  • Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI to Power Revamped Siri
  • Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder
  • The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
  • Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City
  • “…Meta announced internally that it is splitting its A.I. division — which is known as Meta Superintelligence Labs — into four groups…”
  • Claude Sonnet 4 Expands to 1 Million Token Context Window
  • Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google
  • “…estimate the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours (Wh) of energy…”
  • Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading

Weekly#650

  • Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows
  • Global EV Sales Up 27% in 2025
  • China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday…280 teams from 16 countries compete in Beijing robot games
  • Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
  • Alien: Earth is a brilliant and terrifying expansion of the franchise
  • ChatGPT’s mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install
  • How NASA Tests Their Software for the Space Shuttle and the Orion MPCV
  • LLMs bring new nature of abstraction

Weekly#649

  • OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here…OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
  • “…New research from venture firm SignalFire shows that the startup is increasing its engineering organization faster than those competitors and more…Anthropic is hiring engineers 2.68 times faster than it’s losing them. That number is 2.18 for OpenAI, 2.07 for Meta and 1.17 for Google…”
  • Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta
  • Astronomers cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding
  • Apple to announce $100B further commitment for US manufacturing
  • ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
  • Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed
  • High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups
  • Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms
  • New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes

Weekly#648

  • Anthropic Nears Funding at $170 Billion Value as Revenue Surges
  • Figma’s stock soars in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hits $45B
  • AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail
  • OpenAI Launches Stargate in Europe With Norwegian Deal.”…The site, which will be jointly owned by the two European companies, has the initial goal of delivering 230 megawatts of capacity with plans to add additional 290 megawatts…”
  • Inside the relentless race for AI capacity
  • A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.”…Some potential hires were told they would be allotted 30,000 graphical processing units, or GPUs, for their A.I. research, one of the people said…”
  • Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands
  • Microsoft’s market cap surpasses $4 trillion mark, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
  • Amazon’s Alexa Fund Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows
  • Google execs say employees have to ‘be more AI-savvy’ as competition ramps up
  • AI code generators are writing vulnerable software nearly half the time
  • Introducing study mode
  • Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
  • Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month to Meta’s Superintelligence Team
  • Elon Musk confirms Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion chip contract with Samsung