2025

• Speed as a Habit review.firstround.com
• Software Design: What went wrong? jacquiread.com
• Kuo: Apple’s First Foldable iPhone to Feature Book-Style Design, Sell for Over $2,000 macrumors.com
• Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in attacks bleepingcomputer.com
• iOS 18.4 beta introduces AI-powered review summaries in the App Store macworld.com
• Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI Action Plan anthropic.com
• Google begins testing AI-only search results arstechnica.com
• Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements venturebeat.com
• Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript infoq.com
• The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows Executives and Employees Investing in AI, but Uncertainty Holding Back Adoption slack.com
• The new politics of AI: Why fast technological change requires bold policy targets ippr.org
• Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file techcrunch.com
• Meta is targeting ‘hundreds of millions’ of businesses in agentic AI deployment cnbc.com
• US communications agency to explore alternatives to GPS systems reuters.com
• Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters bbc.com
• ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code techcrunch.com
• A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated techcrunch.com

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper…

— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 2, 2025

ChatGPT for macOS can now edit code directly in IDEs. Available to Plus, Pro, and Team users. pic.twitter.com/WPB2RMP0tj

— OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) March 6, 2025

TSMC has 100% capacity booked through 2027. Yet, in that timeframe (even beyond), we can't make enough chips to meet compute demand.

Enter Intel with capacity and a competitive process. If only TSMC existed there would be a huge gap of compute have and have nots.

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) March 7, 2025

We are at the onset of the Agent Economy.

This post by @DanBartus and @mischa highlights the SaaS and labor reinvention opportunity.https://t.co/0QzCh2X63t pic.twitter.com/TVDfozfJ4E

— Felicis (@felicis) September 27, 2024

• Introducing GPT-4.5 openai.com
• Artificial Intelligence Markup Language aiml.foundation
• AI-Powered Ransomware Attacks dzone.com
• Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 techcrunch.com
• Intel delays its Ohio chip factory to 2030 techcrunch.com
• Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT cnbc.com
• Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac theverge.com
• Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year techcrunch.com
• IBM closes $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition techcrunch.com
• Microsoft Releases BioEmu-1: A Deep Learning Model for Protein Structure Prediction infoq.com
• GitHub Copilot Extensions Integrate IDEs with External Services infoq.com
• There are 3 private lunar landers headed to the moon right now — a 1st in space history space.com
• Silicon Reimagined…New foundations for the age of AI. armkeil.blob.core.windows.net
• Future of AI Research aaai.org
• Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards security.googleblog.com
• Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday nytimes.com
• The End of Programming as We Know It oreilly.com
• Meet the AI agent engineer sierra.ai

Honest reflections from coding with AI so far as a non-engineer:

It can get you 70% of the way there, but that last 30% is frustrating. It keeps taking one step forward and two steps backward with new bugs, issues, etc.

If I knew how the code worked I could probably fix it…

— Peter Yang (@petergyang) December 1, 2024

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Deploying or upgrading services is risky. In this post, we explore risk mitigation strategies.

The diagram below illustrates the common ones.

𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
In this model, we deploy new changes to multiple services simultaneously. This approach… pic.twitter.com/ZkrMmu806M

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) February 28, 2025

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• Three Observations blog.samaltman.com
• Introducing Perplexity Deep Research perplexity.ai
• How a Software Architect Uses Artificial Intelligence in His Daily Work…In the talk, he gave an example where an online system had the requirement to detect ambiguities infoq.com
• Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab theverge.com
• Superagency in the workplace mckinsey.com
• AI start-up DeepSeek expands business scope in potential shift towards monetisation scmp.com
• xAI has been using an enormous data center in Memphis containing around 200,000 GPUs to train Grok 3 techcrunch.com
• Meta Introduces LLM-Powered Tool for Software Testing infoq.com
• Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip cnbc.com
• How WSJ Readers Use AI at Work wsj.com
• Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android techcrunch.com
• Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language venturebeat.com
• Skylight Calendar Max review: a game-changer for busy parents theverge.com
• OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek’s emergence cnbc.com
• The Dune survival game launches in May theverge.com
• Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals theguardian.com
• France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes…with a single gram of hydrogen isotopes yielding the energy equivalent of 11 tonnes of coal.. newatlas.com
• Apple launches the iPhone 16E theverge.com
• Google builds AI ‘co-scientist’ tool to speed up research (FT) ft.com
• Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon technologyreview.com
• Chinese scientists develop ‘injection’ to make smartphone and EV batteries last longer scmp.com
• How AI Can Protect Vital Pipelines and Cables Deep in the Ocean (WSJ) wsj.com

With iPhone 16e, Apple is doing their new in-house Apple C1 modem.

This modem does the usual 4G/5G (sub-6 GHz), as well as Satellite and GPS connectivity.

Because of the vertical control this gives Apple, it's about 25% more energy efficient than previous iPhones pic.twitter.com/y10reU7I2h

— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) February 19, 2025

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• How Duolingo works: 14 years of big learnings in one little handbook blog.duolingo.com
• Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots bloomberg.com
• Getting Started With Agentic AI dzone.com
• Global electricity demand to rise 4% annually due to AI, other uses…It’s the fastest growth in years as AI, industrial production, air conditioning, EVs and more put new strains on power grids and climate efforts. axios.com
• Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (FT) ft.com
• Airbnb CEO says it’s still too early for AI trip planning… techcrunch.com
• China’s Smartphone Golden Refresh creativestrategies.com
• Alibaba to partner with Apple on AI features, sending shares to 3-year high reuters.com
• AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds theregister.com
• Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age theverge.com

• Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections techcrunch.com
• Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI…Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results cnbc.com
• 27 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects workingsoftware.dev
• Will China’s open-source AI end U.S. supremacy in the field? washingtonpost.com
• The Future of Jobs Report 2025 weforum.org
• OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s SSI in talks to be valued at $20 billion, sources say reuters.com
• AI chip firm Cerebras partners with France’s Mistral, claims speed record reuters.com
• Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link nature.com
• Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally 9to5google.com
• Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation techcrunch.com
• OpenAI is considering building data center “campuses” in 16 states that have indicated “real interest” in the project cnbc.com
• A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis theguardian.com
• The Long Quest for Artifical Blood newyorker.com
• “…The AI system, named Daisy, uses voice synthesis to mimic an elderly woman and engages fraudsters in lengthy discussions about fictitious family members or provides false bank details, keeping them occupied for up to 40 minutes per call…” slashdot.org

🔐Enforcing Authorization for RAG

With examples to illustrate authorization concepts and techniques by @pangeacyber https://t.co/DtCKReT9qA pic.twitter.com/hIVIB5h9aA

— Bilgin Ibryam🦋 (@bibryam) February 8, 2025

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• “…OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model…O3-mini is priced at $0.55 per million cached input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, where a million tokens equates to roughly 750,000 words. That’s 63% cheaper than o1-mini…” techcrunch.com
• “…Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the company was slow to respond to TikTok’s meteoric rise because executives didn’t view it as truly social, offering a rare window into how the tech giant missed one of social media’s biggest shifts in recent years…Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses sold more than 1 million units last year“ africa.businessinsider.com
• US Probing If DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips From Firms in Singapore bloomberg.com
• Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service techcrunch.com
• LLM Evaluation Tooling – A Review atla-ai.com
• Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts techcrunch.com
• Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service techcrunch.com
• Hubble’s largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy techspot.com
• Humanity’s Last Exam lastexam.ai
• Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in 1Q 2025 Results: $36.3B Profit on $124.3B Revenue macrumors.com
• SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says techcrunch.com
• Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight.The metaphorical clock is set to 89 seconds to midnight.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created clock in 1947 reuters.com
• Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship straitstimes.com
• Preventing The AI Plateau emcap.com

System Design Blueprint: The Ultimate Guide. The method to download the high-resolution PDF is available at the end.

We've created a template to tackle various system design problems in interviews.

Hope this checklist is useful to guide your discussions during the interview… pic.twitter.com/iECIW90suW

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) January 16, 2025

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