2025

• Citing recent comments by James Cameron, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he hopes AI can make films “10% better,” not just “50% cheaper.” variety.com
• OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy coding assistant company Windsurf for more than $3 billion…OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to AI coding rival Windsurf axios.com
• Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs, hugging face link techcrunch.com
• Amazon’s secret Vega OS inches closer to launch lowpass.cc
• Video: Stanford CS229 I Machine Learning I Building Large Language Models (LLMs) youtube.com
• Meta blocks Apple Intelligence on Facebook and its other iOS apps 9to5mac.com
• Overcoming React Development Hurdles: A Guide for Developers dzone.com
• Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist 404media.co
• Cognitive Load is what matters github.com
• OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter theverge.com
• Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for 3 days arstechnica.com

• James Cameron: AI Could Help Cut VFX Costs in Half, Saving Blockbuster Cinema variety.com
• Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India reuters.com
• CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders aboutamazon.com
• “…electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today…” iea.org
• “…The drug discovery market is expected to reach $71 billion in value by 2025 as AI continues to change the industry.On average, it can take anywhere between 10 and 15 years — and sometimes more than $2 billion — for a drug to make it from the bench to final approval from the Food and Drug Administration…” cnbc.com
• Google introduces Firebase Studio, an end-to-end platform that builds custom apps in-browser venturebeat.com
• Agent Development Kit: Making it easy to build multi-agent applications…A2A Protocol developers.googleblog.com
• OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1 theverge.com
• Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude anthropic.com
• Walmart executives tell Axios the new Trend-to-Product, a “trend-sensing design tool,” shortens the production timeline for fashion items by as much as 18 weeks axios.com
• AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows techcrunch.com

I heard this internal memo of mine is being leaked right now, so here it is: pic.twitter.com/Qn12DY7TFF

— tobi lutke (@tobi) April 7, 2025

📢Introducing #AIIndex2025: This year's report highlights the most critical trends in AI – from shifting geopolitical landscape and rapid technological evolution, to AI’s expanding role in science and medicine, business, and public life. Read more: https://t.co/PxHhsKO9dD pic.twitter.com/GXSK1AZaHU

— Stanford HAI (@StanfordHAI) April 7, 2025

Students mostly used AI to create and analyze, according to our analysis using Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational goals.

Whether cheating or not, this raises important questions about how to stop students offloading important cognitive tasks to AI. pic.twitter.com/odU8y2YLIb

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) April 8, 2025

• YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform ‘New King of All Media’ thewrap.com
• Gmail is making it easier for businesses to send encrypted emails to anyone theverge.com
• Amazon’s new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you techcrunch.com
• Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series techcrunch.com
• How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence pewresearch.org
• Midjourney releases V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year techcrunch.com
• No Uploads Needed: Google’s NotebookLM AI Can Now ‘Discover Sources’ for You au.pcmag.com
• “..DeepMind suggests developers use techniques like amplified oversight, in which two copies of an AI check each other’s output, to create robust systems that aren’t likely to go rogue..” storage.googleapis.com
• 70% of the 20,000 satellites ever launched remain in space today inkl.com
• “…Amazon said next week’s mission — known as Kuiper-1 or KA-1 (for Kuiper Atlas 1) — will put 27 Kuiper satellites into orbit at an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometers)…” geekwire.com
• Microsoft leaders, past and present, on the company’s legacy and impact geekwire.com
• The Art of Postmortem dzone.com
• Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries nytimes.com

• Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft reverses gains after Tencent-backed spinoff move cnbc.com
• OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT theverge.com
• CoreWeave prices IPO at $40 a share cnbc.com
• OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding bloomberg.com
• Google Maps can soon scan your screenshots to plan your vacation theverge.com
• China’s deep space exploration laboratory starts operation english.www.gov.cn
• More electricity — and more electricians foxbusiness.com
• GitHub Copilot Can Now Run in Windows Terminal infoq.com
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. has generated and certified so-called truly random numbers using a quantum computer, in a world-first that the bank hopes will have applications for security and trading financialpost.com
• Turning round Rolls-Royce: ‘If you don’t score quickly, you lose people’ ft.com
• Latest Memo: The role of developer skills in agentic coding martinfowler.com
• Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here’s why androidauthority.com
• AI-Powered Databases Boost the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Process wsj.com
• Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks arxiv.org
• DBS: Transforming a banking leader into a technology leader mckinsey.com

• Nvidia’s GTC 2025 Keynote youtube.com
• AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported theguardian.com
• Apple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report arstechnica.com
• Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’ theverge.com
• Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition theguardian.com
• Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram techcrunch.com
• Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software techcrunch.com
• Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads techcrunch.com
• Severance brought everything together in its season 2 finale theverge.com
• Product Playbooks learningloop.io

How do we Perform Pagination in API Design? pic.twitter.com/G0rrWG6fXI

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) March 21, 2025

• Talk, Draw, Generate: 10 Ways for Creating Software with AI generativeprogrammer.com
• 9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2025 and Beyond hbr.org
• Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI hbr.org
• SXSW Sessions youtube.com
• 2025 Tech Trends Report by Future Today Institute ftsg.com
• Klarna, 93 million active consumers and to work with over 675,000 merchants in 26 countries, files for U.S. IPO axios.com
• China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals restofworld.org
• Gemini replacing Google Assistant on Android phones later in 2025 9to5google.com
• AI summaries are coming to Windows Notepad theverge.com
• Apple Plans AirPods Feature That Can Live-Translate Conversations bloomberg.com
• Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first nature.com
• Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek’s accuracy – using only one GPU zdnet.com
• Carmakers Are Reinventing the Gear Shifter and Drivers Are Lost (WSJ) wsj.com
• Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino daringfireball.net
• Malware’s AI time bomb axios.com
• How the Four Seasons Hit a Marketing Jackpot With HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ (WSJ) wsj.com

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the…

— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) March 13, 2025

How to load your websites at lightning speed?

Check out these 8 tips to boost frontend performance. pic.twitter.com/3nhPxaswhb

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) March 14, 2025