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2025

  • Latest issue

    Weekly#621

    9 links · 2 min read

    • OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can do tasks on the web arstechnica.com
    • Mark Zuckerberg: “…Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan. We’ll bring online ~1GW of compute in ’25 and we’ll end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. We’re planning to invest $60-65B in capex this year…” facebook.com
    • The AI industry’s pace has researchers stressed techcrunch.com
    • “…When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene…DeepSeek’s engineers said they needed only about 2,000 specialized computer chips from the U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, in comparison to the as many as 16,000 chips needed by major American companies…DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report wired.com
    • World Economic Forum | Sessions youtube.com
    • AI, tech and more at Davos 2025: What to know
      • “… 75% of organizations report an erosion of customer trust following a cyber incident, with damaging effects on business performance and brand reputation…”
      • “…By 2035, the space economy is set to reach $1.8 trillion up from $630 billion in 2023 and averaging a growth rate of 9% a year…”
      • “…By 2026, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts electricity consumption for data centres alone could reach 1,000 TWh – roughly the equivalent to the energy consumption of Japan…”
    • “…The researchers, who presented their work last month at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, wondered if they could control streetlights in Berlin to create a city-wide version…” arstechnica.com
    • Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025…In a complex cyberspace characterized by geopolitical uncertainties, widening cyber inequity and sophisticated cyberthreats, leaders must adopt a security-first mindset… weforum.org
    • Global Risks Report 2025 weforum.org

  • Latest issue

    Weekly#620

    16 links · 1 min read

    • AI in America – OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint PDF cdn.openai.com
    • A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Plans $1 Billion Factory in Ohio nytimes.com
    • Nvidia releases microservices to safeguard AI agents siliconangle.com
    • German Robot Maker Neura Robotics Raises €120 Million bloomberg.com
    • About 60% of Gemini’s paying users kept their subscriptions six months after first signing up (WSJ) wsj.com
    • AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI techcrunch.com
    • Civilization VII preview: The most complete package since IV arstechnica.com
    • Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand infoq.com
    • Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into orbit axios.com
    • HuatuoGPT-o1: Advancing Complex Medical Reasoning with AI infoq.com
    • “…most SMR projects will not be ready until at least the 2030s” (FT) ft.com
    • Making new nuclear power viable in the energy transition woodmac.com
    • Make Better Strategic Decisions Around Slow-Developing Technology hbr.org
    • There’s a Better Way to Predict a Technology’s Future: Follow the Rate of Change (WSJ)”…“You can predict the direction of technology and what is scalable, with 60% to 70% accuracy,” says Khosla,…You just can’t get there by asking up-or-down questions about a moment in time….” wsj.com
    • From Diagram to Code with Amazon Q Developer dev.to
    • 3 qualities Apple looks for in employees: collaboration, curiosity, creativity bbc.co.uk
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#619

    15 links · 1 min read

    • Introducing the DX Core 4…A new framework for measuring developer productivity that encapsulates DORA, SPACE, and DevEx getdx.com
    • 6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025 news.microsoft.com
    • TSMC revenue surges 34% to record in 2024 amid AI chip boom asia.nikkei.com
    • What Spotify’s 55 Million US Subscribers Means for Podcasters, Authors and Musicians bloomberg.com
    • Coding with LLMs arstechnica.com
    • The UPI network now processes more than 13 billion real-time transactions monthly techcrunch.com
    • Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space” arstechnica.com
    • The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show engadget.com
    • Intuitive Machines set for second landing arstechnica.com
    • “…StackOverflow, once the favoured destination of developers in search of coding help, is suffering from declining activity, with new questions tumbling 75 percent since their peak in 2017, and down 60 percent year-on-year in December 2024…” devclass.com
    • Quantum computing stocks tank as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the tech won’t be viable for another 20 years tomshardware.com
    • 2024 was the first year above 1.5C of global warming, scientists say msn.com
    • Wener Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond d1.awsstatic.com
    • Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computers Won’t Be Very Useful for Another 20 Years pcmag.com
    • Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles finance.yahoo.com
  • Latest issue

    Weekly#618

    14 links · 1 min read

    • AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives arstechnica.com
    • Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist arstechnica.com
    • Rivian wraps 2024 with more than 50,000 EVs delivered techcrunch.com
    • “…More broadly, the history business is booming. In 2023, people in the UK and Ireland spent more on history books than at any point since Nielsen BookData’s records began in 1998…” bloomberg.com
    • Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust theregister.com
    • Constellation inks $1 billion deal to supply US government with nuclear power reuters.com
    • Hackers target dozens of VPN and AI extensions for Google Chrome to compromise data therecord.media
    • How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history nature.com
    • A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately news.mit.edu
    • NATO plans to build satellite links as backups to undersea cables tomshardware.com
    • Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch techcrunch.com
    • 60 years of spaceflight patches arstechnica.com
    • How we’ll use AI in 2025 axios.com
    • The Power of Nvidia’s Systems Thinking Approach chipstrat.com