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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