Weekly#664

  • AI eats the world – Ben Evans
  • A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
  • Nvidia – The company said net income in the quarter rose 65% to $31.91 billion
  • Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics..DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots
  • Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand
  • The future of AI’s energy hunger demands every tool available
  • Google launches Nano Banana Pro, an updated AI image generator powered by Gemini 3
  • Become an Octopus Organization
  • Meta Looks to Power Trading to Support Its AI Energy Needs
  • Verizon cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it restructures
  • As Windows turns 40, Microsoft faces an AI backlash
  • The Godmother of AI Didn’t Expect It to Be This Massive
  • Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size
  • Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved

Weekly#663

  • The state of AI in 2025
  • Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook
  • Meta will assess employee performance by AI-driven impact starting in 2026
  • “…Zitron reported this week that in 2024, Microsoft received $493.8 million in revenue share payments from OpenAI. In the first three quarters of 2025, that number jumped to $865.8 million, according to documents he viewed…”
  • Google-Backed Apptronik in Talks to Raise Funding at $5 Billion Valuation
  • Monzo’s Real-Time Fraud Detection Architecture with BigQuery and Microservices
  • Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket deploys Mars satellites, sticks booster landing
  • Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI
  • Google to Invest $40 Billion in New Data Centers in Texas
  • When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
  • Berkshire reveals new $4.3 billion Alphabet stake, sells more Apple
  • Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
  • SAIF Risk Map
  • How We Hijacked a Claude Skill with an Invisible Sentence
  • New threats in AI

Weekly#662

  • Mercury, valued at $3.5 billion
  • ‘Vibe coding’ named word of the year by Collins Dictionary
  • Amazon launches a low-price standalone shopping app, Amazon Bazaar, in over a dozen markets
  • Startups find Amazon’s AI chips ‘less competitive’ than Nvidia GPUs, internal document shows
  • “…Cursor’s secret to recruiting is to treat the atomic unit of the hiring process as a person, not a job spec…”
  • What a Google-powered Apple Siri might deliver
  • Metropolis, a tech-enabled parking lot network, has raised $500 million in Series D
  • How Uber Standardized Mobile Analytics for Cross-Platform Insights
  • Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
  • The AI Dossier: 80+ AI use cases

Weekly#661

  • WSJ: The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution
  • Amazon raises spending forecast to $125 billion as third-quarter results top estimates…Amazon cloud records 20% sales growth
  • Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
  • OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation
  • The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
  • Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
  • Nvidia to Invest Up to $1 Billion in AI Startup Poolside
  • Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia, sending the 5G equipment maker’s shares up 22%
  • OpenAI unveils ‘Aardvark,’ a GPT-5-powered agent for autonomous cybersecurity research
  • How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals
  • Is AI a bubble?