October 2025

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

Weekly#660

  • Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
  • Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are reportedly interested in buying Warner Bros
  • OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
  • Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
  • Amazon’s revamped Luna streaming service is available now
  • VW production continuing for now but chip uncertainty high, source says
  • Claude can now compartmentalize as part of a major memory upgrade
  • AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race
  • DeepSeek AI Unveils DeepSeek-OCR: Vision-Based Context Compression Redefines Long-Text Processing
  • Anthropic’s latest Claude model can work for 30 hours on its own
  • Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
  • ChatGPT Atlas
  • Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines
  • Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day
  • Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
  • SpaceX lofts 10,000th Starlink satellite to orbit

Weekly#659

  • State of AI Report 2025
  • Pixnapping: Side-Channel Vulnerability Allows Android Apps to Capture Sensitive Screen Data
  • Europe Is Losing the Chips Race
  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
  • OpenAI Wants City-Sized AI Supercomputers. First It Needs Custom Chips. (WSJ)
  • Anthropic connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive
  • Introducing Agent Skills…repo link…and more
  • Steam just broke its concurrent user record with 41.6 million gamers
  • The American Job Quality Study
  • Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans…AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.
  • AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
  • “…By co-developing hardware with Broadcom, OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on these chips than it does with Nvidia…”
  • Microsoft will test a Copilot AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11
  • This Wall Street bank has over 100 “digital employees“
  • AI’s promise is sky-high — and so is the pressure to deliver
  • Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said Thursday it’s working with Google’s DeepMind division to fine tune
  • Infusing AI into Your Java Applications
  • Sal Khan will become the public face of the TED conference
  • Apple Readies Its First Ever Touch-Screen MacBook
  • Attention Is the New Big-O
  • “…Between 2014 and 2024, the number of industrial robots deployed in the country (China) rocketed from 189,000 to more than two million…The overall number of robots added in China last year was 295,000, compared to 27,000 in Germany, 34,000 in the US and just 2,500 in the UK.”
  • Exclusive: Anthropic aims to nearly triple annualized revenue in 2026

Weekly#658

  • Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward
  • NBA games will be streamed live in Apple Immersive
  • South Korea raises cyber threat level after huge data centre fire
  • AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs. Previously, OpenAI and NVIDIA announced strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems in September
  • AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
  • Major banks explore issuing stablecoin pegged to G7 currencies
  • Reliable Robotics is among startups hoping to revolutionize air travel by doing away with the need for human pilots on cargo, military and even passenger aircraft
  • Amazon Pharmacy to launch electronic kiosks for prescriptions at One Medical locations,
  • Anthropic and IBM announce strategic partnership
  • Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino
  • “…U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman. Excluding these technology-related categories, Furman calculated in a Sept. 27 post on X.com GDP growth would have been just 0.1% on an annualized basis…”
  • DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs
  • The 5 levels of AI agent autonomy

Weekly#657

  • “…The key is enabling AI to learn from their environments and faithfully represent an abstract version of them in their “heads,” the way humans and animals do. To do it, developers need to train AIs by using simulations of the world…The world-model approach—which somewhat confusingly refers to both the simulated training environment and the abstract representation…”
  • Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why
  • Japan is running out of its favorite beer after ransomware attack
  • Announcing Tinker
  • Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses
  • Risk of AI bioweapons laid bare by flaw in security software
  • The AI Application Spending Report: Where Startup Dollars Really Go
  • Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure
  • Perplexity Launches Search API to Power Next-Gen AI Applications
  • MCP Developers Summit
  • Google cuts more than 100 design-related roles in cloud unit
  • LinkedIn’s CEO says these 4 qualities will matter more than fancy degrees in the future workplace