2025

• America Should Rent, Not Sell, AI Chips to China rand.org
• Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI to Power Revamped Siri bloomberg.com
• Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder engadget.com
• The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era wired.com
• Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City techcrunch.com
• “…Meta announced internally that it is splitting its A.I. division — which is known as Meta Superintelligence Labs — into four groups…” nytimes.com
• Claude Sonnet 4 Expands to 1 Million Token Context Window infoq.com
• Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google theinformation.com
• “…estimate the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours (Wh) of energy…” cloud.google.com
• Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading theguardian.com

• Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows digiday.com
• Global EV Sales Up 27% in 2025 cleantechnica.com
• China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday…280 teams from 16 countries compete in Beijing robot games reuters.com
• Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria news.mit.edu
• Alien: Earth is a brilliant and terrifying expansion of the franchise theverge.com
• ChatGPT’s mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install techcrunch.com
• How NASA Tests Their Software for the Space Shuttle and the Orion MPCV infoq.com
• LLMs bring new nature of abstraction martinfowler.com

Top AI Agent Frameworks You Should Know pic.twitter.com/kUT88jQW98

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) August 14, 2025

• OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here…OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers techcrunch.com
• “…New research from venture firm SignalFire shows that the startup is increasing its engineering organization faster than those competitors and more…Anthropic is hiring engineers 2.68 times faster than it’s losing them. That number is 2.18 for OpenAI, 2.07 for Meta and 1.17 for Google…” wsj.com
• Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta techcrunch.com
• Astronomers cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding economist.com
• Apple to announce $100B further commitment for US manufacturing techcrunch.com
• ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role theguardian.com
• Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed techcrunch.com
• High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups techcrunch.com
• Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms techcrunch.com
• New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes quantamagazine.org

• Anthropic Nears Funding at $170 Billion Value as Revenue Surges bloomberg.com
• Figma’s stock soars in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hits $45B techcrunch.com
• AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail deepmind.google
• OpenAI Launches Stargate in Europe With Norwegian Deal.”…The site, which will be jointly owned by the two European companies, has the initial goal of delivering 230 megawatts of capacity with plans to add additional 290 megawatts…” bloomberg.com
• Inside the relentless race for AI capacity ig.ft.com
• A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.”…Some potential hires were told they would be allotted 30,000 graphical processing units, or GPUs, for their A.I. research, one of the people said…” nytimes.com
• Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands arstechnica.com
• Microsoft’s market cap surpasses $4 trillion mark, joining Nvidia in exclusive club finance.yahoo.com
• Amazon’s Alexa Fund Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows variety.com
• Google execs say employees have to ‘be more AI-savvy’ as competition ramps up cnbc.com
• AI code generators are writing vulnerable software nearly half the time nerds.xyz
• Introducing study mode openai.com
• Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity bbc.com
• Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month to Meta’s Superintelligence Team bloomberg.com
• Elon Musk confirms Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion chip contract with Samsung cnbc.com

JFC @Replit pic.twitter.com/ixo6LBnUVu

— Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 18, 2025

How can Cache Systems go wrong? pic.twitter.com/HFQbxDvxD2

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) July 24, 2025

• How we built our multi-agent research system anthropic.com
• Generative AI and the Nature of Work hbs.edu
• Introducing Kiro kiro.dev
• Amazon-backed Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for financial services cnbc.com
• Google Is Said to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Assets, Talent…Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf bloomberg.com
• Reflections on OpenAI calv.info
• How to Build Secure Software without Sacrificing Productivity infoq.com
• OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you theverge.com
• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch techcrunch.com
• Everything learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra arstechnica.com
• “…By the end of the year, Delta plans for 20% of its ticket prices to be individually determined using AI, president Glen Hauenstein told investors last week…” fortune.com
• Google’s head of Android said the computer science major needs a ‘rebrand‘ businessinsider.com
• OpenAI will rely on Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its application programming interface in several countries cnbc.com
• Google’s AI can now make phone calls for you theverge.com
• Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their Boss bloomberg.com
• FourCastNet 3: A geometric approach to probabilistic machine-learning weather forecasting at scale research.nvidia.com

ChatGPT can now do work for you using its own computer.

Introducing ChatGPT agent—a unified agentic system combining Operator’s action-taking remote browser, deep research’s web synthesis, and ChatGPT’s conversational strengths. pic.twitter.com/7uN2Nc6nBQ

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 17, 2025