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Weekly#669

  • Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds
    • “…The first is steel. Before steel, buildings in the 19th century had a limit of six or seven floors. Iron was strong but brittle and heavy; add more floors, and the structure collapsed under its own weight. Steel changed everything. It’s strong yet malleable. Frames could be lighter, walls thinner, and suddenly buildings could rise dozens of stories. New kinds of buildings became possible. AI is steel for organizations. It has the potential to maintain context across workflows and surface decisions when needed without the noise. Human communication no longer has to be the load-bearing wall. The weekly two-hour alignment meeting becomes a five-minute async review. The executive decision that required three levels of approval might soon happen in minutes. Companies can scale, truly scale, without the degradation we’ve accepted as inevitable…“
  • Nvidia Reaches Technology Licensing Deal With Startup Groq
  • How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
  • China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks
  • “…Before public launch, Chinese companies must pepper their models with questions…The regulations call for testing chatbots with 2,000 questions and regular updates of the questions at least once a month…”
  • How weight-loss drugs are reshaping fitness gyms
  • State of Consumer AI 2025 – a16z
  • Charts of the Week: Agents start to make an impact?
  • AI Minted More Than 50 New Billionaires In 2025
  • 2025 LLM Year in Review
  • When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
  • Driverless future gains momentum with global robotaxi deployments
  • The relentless rise of YouTube.”…In Septem­ber, You­Tube said it had paid more than $100bn to cre­at­ors, artists and media groups since 2021. In the most recent quarter, You­Tube advert­ising rev­en­ues increased 15 per cent to $10.3bn…”

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