Weekly#665

  • Amazon to Invest $50 Billion Building Data Centers to Support U.S. Government
  • Meta in talks to spend billions on Google’s chips
  • Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch, boding well for a longer-term effort to build a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • How Walmart, Target, and more retailers are infusing AI into their shopping experiences
  • Volkswagen can now build EVs in China, claiming it can cut costs by up to 50%
  • Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad
  • Tesla loses some AI staff to a new robotics startup
  • Airbus ordered immediate software fixes for 6,000 A320-series aircraft
  • The cybersecurity race inside Formula One
  • Baidu is emerging as a major AI chip player in China to fill the Nvidia gap
  • AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes
  • China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, nearly nine times as many as the U.S. and more than the rest of the world combined, according to the International Federation of Robotics
  • Technology Radar

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?