- Why Taiwan Is Building a Satellite Network
- Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations
- Swarms of low-cost drones powered by AI
- PS5 Pro Specs
- Rendering 45% faster than PS5
- 2-3x Ray-tracing (x4 in some cases)
- 33.5 Teraflops
- Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
- A Famed Danish Chef Is Offering High-End Space Dining
- Real estate agents in China turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
- Google says Chrome’s new real-time URL scanner won’t invade your privacy
- Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks
- Azure OpenAI’s “Use Your Data” Feature Now Generally Available
- Devin, the first AI software engineer
- Brief History of Scaling Uber
Weekly#575
- How Does Throttling Work?
- The AAARRRP Developer Relations Strategy Framework
- Operating a Large, Distributed System in a Reliable Way
- Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data’s atomic datacenters for $650M
- LinkedIn says premium subscriptions bring in $1.7 billion
- Instagram overtakes TikTok in app downloads in race for new users
- China is in the process of raising more than $27 billion for its largest chip fund to date
- Apple’s BNPL Plan Will Show Up on Your Experian Credit Report. Here’s What That Means
- Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 Models, Highlighting Opus and Its Near-Human Capabilities
- The many uses of mini-organs
- AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering
- A new tool called Writable, which uses ChatGPT to help grade student writing assignments
Weekly#574
- Smartphone makers are dreaming of a ‘supercycle’ driven by AI. Analysts disagree
- Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them
- Chip giant TSMC opens first Japan factory as it diversifies away from Taiwan
- First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface…more commercial era for space exploration
- Uber’s CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency
- Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding
- Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users
- Photomath is officially Google’s latest app on the Play Store
- Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language
- An AI system that offers emotional support via chat
- GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak
- “…Just a decade ago, data centers drew 10 megawatts of power, but 100 megawatts is common today…enough to power around 80,000 U.S. households (U.S. DOE 2020).”
- Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future
- Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
- Search suggestions in Chrome
- Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed
- “…Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way…”
- “…Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog…”
- The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to science
- Will NASA be able to return Mars samples to Earth? New audit raises doubts
- Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio
Apple's auto project was always a moonshot. Makes sense to move GenAI up in priority as that will yield more fruit over next 5-10 years than auto projects.
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) February 27, 2024
ROI on AI:
— Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) February 28, 2024
AI is handling 2/3 of Klarna’s customer service chats with a 2 minute resolution time vs. 11 minutes for previously and a 25% drop in repeat inquiries.
AI is going to have a massive impact on every industry. pic.twitter.com/TY0BUCUKm0
Weekly#573
- Nvidia hits $2 trillion valuation
- Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public…PyRIT can generate thousands of malicious prompts to test a gen AI model, and even score its response.
- Windows is getting its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
- Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April
- Google is sunsetting the Google Pay app in the US later this year
- Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA
- Virtual Staging AI helps Realtors digitally furnish rooms within seconds
- Switzerland calls on UN to explore possibility of solar geoengineering
- Reddit files to list IPO
- Mercedes-Benz backs off plan to only sell EVs by 2030
- Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot’s promises?
- React 19 introduced
We are actually on the cusp of two S curves simultaneously. AI and Spatial/XR computing. Fun times! https://t.co/Vf0yNbcU2c
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) February 22, 2024
Weekly#572
- Open AI
- Every Default macOS Wallpaper
- Next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
- Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU
- How Uber Serves Over 40 Million Reads Per Second from Online Storage Using an Integrated Cache
- The first Android 15 preview is coming this week
- How Platform and Site Reliability Engineering Are Evolving DevOps
- How AI is transforming the business of advertising
- Kong’s new open source AI Gateway makes building multi-LLM apps easier
- Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode
- Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers
Weekly#571
- World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
- OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets…Sam Altman is aiming to raise as much as $7 trillion to significantly increase the world’s supply of semiconductor chips
- US to Launch $5 Billion Research Hub to Stay Ahead in Chip Race
- Why PayPal needs to fix its Gen Z problem
- Nvidia chases $30 billion designing custom chip market with new unit
- Disney’s Epic deal…The $1.5 billion investment 9% stake in Epic Games
- Fintech startups that could go public in 2024
- Can a $3,500 headset replace your TV
- AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers
- Modern gRPC Microservices: REST Gateways, Part 2
- Uber posted its first full-year profit since going public in 2019
- Vision Pro apps (so far)
- 20+ states exploring support for Apple’s digital IDs in Wallet feature
- The Future Is Cloud-Native: Are You Ready?
Ep 1 Product 101: Apple Vision Pro@caro_milanesi @BenBajarin and @MaxWinebach talk Apple Vision Pro on the launch episode of Product 101.
— Creative Strategies, Inc (@creativestrat) February 9, 2024
Chapters below to jump to specific discussions on product features. 👇
(00:00) Introduction to Product 101
(01:13) Standout Experiences… pic.twitter.com/NhncjNSj3l
Weekly#570
- Vision Pro Teardown
- Apple Vision Pro review: the infinite desktop
- Devs Can Now Just Say ‘Hey Code’ to Start Copilot Chat in VS Code
- Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro
- Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
- Pinecone Introduces Its Serverless Vector Database
- DataCentral: Uber’s Big Data Observability and Chargeback Platform
- How Quora Died
- Apple ‘preparing’ to buy AI startup with advanced privacy tech to bolster Apple Vision Pro
- Apple Ramped Up Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year, Filings Show
- Semantic Product Matching
- Super Bowl ad cost: a 30-second spot at this year’s game cost about $7 million
- Google is reportedly rebranding Bard to Gemini and plans to launch a dedicated app
- The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way
- Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4
- Meta Q Results
Ok… My first impressions after playing with it for a few hours:
— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) February 3, 2024
1. The pass-through is not as mind-blowing as I expected. It's the best I've ever seen in a VR headset but, the way I was hearing it described was like looking through a piece of glass… It wasn't for me. I can… pic.twitter.com/vNAzzBj0VL
Weekly#569
- Apple announces sweeping EU App Store changes
- Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn
- Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4
- Google’s Project IDX brings Android and iOS simulators to the browser
- The Future of Global Fintech: Towards Resilient and Inclusive Growth
- AI and emerging technology at Davos 2024
- Future of cities and local economies at Davos 2024
- “…“The GitHub token gave ‘unrestricted’ and ‘unmonitored’ access to the entire source code hosted at the internal GitHub Enterprise Server,” Mittal explained in a report shared by TechCrunch…”
- Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT
- Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
- Amazon released a new generative AI feature to answer shopper’s questions
- Stopping Uber Fraudsters Through Risk Challenges
- The Mac turns 40
- Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight
- Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028
- Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
- Discord Scales to 1 Million+ Online MidJourney Users in a Single Server
Visualizing a SQL query
— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) January 25, 2024
SQL statements are executed by the database system in several steps, including:
– Parsing the SQL statement and checking its validity
– Transforming the SQL into an internal representation, such as relational algebra
– Optimizing the internal… pic.twitter.com/cfUnoWTDaV
Weekly#568
- Scott Galloway – 2024 Predictions
- Apple begins selling Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature
- Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Launch With Netflix App
- Meituan Dips Below 2018 IPO Price as Selloff Reaches Extremes
- Circle (or highlight or scribble) to Search
- 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
- Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet
- Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuation
- Meta will have a stockpile of almost 600,000 GPUs by the end of 2024
- Microsoft is expanding its Copilot AI subscription for Office apps
- High-Level System Architecture of Booking.com
- OpenAI announces first partnership with a university
- Your Tablet’s Light Sensor Can Spy On You
- Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems
Took Apple less than a decade to rival Visa’s payment processing volume pic.twitter.com/0sfSc8MGdB
— rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg) January 17, 2024
Weekly#567
- Presto at Uber
- Evolution of Ads Conversion Optimization Models at Pinterest
- Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers
- Google reorganizing Pixel hardware
- How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority
- How virtualisation came to Apple silicon Macs
- Kuo: Apple Will Only Produce Up to 80,000 Vision Pro Headsets for Launch
- Apple Vision Pro ordering process: iPhone or iPad with Face ID needed, ‘valid, unexpired prescription’ for optical inserts
- Global Risk Report 2024
- Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024
- Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth
- Vector Databases
- X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024
- Music streams hit 4 trillion in 2023
- HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks
- Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations
IKEA for Apple Vision Pro
— Ben Geskin (@BenGeskin) January 10, 2024
That's what I expect! Beautiful new apps that are volumetric and actually useful in real life. I really hope that developers will be interested in making apps for visionOS and will delight us with their awesome ideas for this new platform.
Spatial… pic.twitter.com/D0pQYVG5sX