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Weekly#640

  • “…AI startups revolutionize coding industry, leading to sky-high valuations…They’re also at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, which all announced new code-gen products in May, and Anthropic is also working on one as well, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters…”
  • Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
  • How AI models may forecast the world’s next wildfires
  • Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
  • Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
  • Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?
  • More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?
  • Elon Musk projects SpaceX revenue of about $15.5 billion in 2025
  • Bristol Myers agrees up to $11.1 billion deal with BioNTech
  • Agentic AI Systems: Smarter Automation With LangChain and LangGraph
  • “…Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday inked a 20-year deal with power giant Constellation Energy to keep a large Illinois nuclear plant running until mid-century…”
  • Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI (WSJ)
  • Polymarket | Which company has best AI model end of 2025?
  • Meta Seeks Hollywood Deals for New Virtual-Reality Headset (WSJ)
  • Vibe coding’ is the new DIY (FT)

Weekly#606

  • Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
  • AI gets its Nobel moment
    • Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins — life’s building blocks
    • Agents are the future AI companies promise — and desperately need
  • Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month
  • OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown
  • AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell
  • Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You
  • Google identifies low noise “phase transition” in its quantum processor
  • Linear Regression
  • 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
  • Mainstreaming Food Innovation: A Roadmap for Stakeholders
  • Google’s Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge

Weekly#533

  • AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app
  • Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks (WSJ)
  • UK’s £1bn strategy for semiconductor industry lacks ambition, say critics
  • Amazon’s 100 drone deliveries puts Prime Air far behind Alphabet’s Wing and Walmart partner Zipline
  • YouTube 2023 Upfront: Platform to Launch Unskippable 30-Second Ads on TVs, Roger Goodell on Hand to Tout NFL Sunday Ticket Pact
  • Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range
  • Guardian has made significant improvements on push notifications
  • Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS
  • Learn x in y minutes for PL
  • An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute
  • Embracing chaos to develop resilience
  • DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
    • A new way to measure developer productivity – from the creators of DORA and SPACE
  • Teens Can Now Ride Ubers Solo With Supervised Accounts—and Parents’ Credit Cards…The app is granting 13- to 17-year-olds parent-supervised accounts for rides and food delivery
  • Disney World is shutting down its $2,500-a-night Star Wars-themed hotel
  • The amount of water stored in half of the largest lakes and reservoirs around the world is declining due to human activity and climate change, according to new research.
  • China’s semiconductor developers eye shift to RISC-V architecture amid growing chip demand in cars, data centres and AI, executive says

Weekly#506

  • Twitter reactivated the ‘Official’ gray check for accounts that are actually verified
  • Amazon introduces ‘Sparrow’ robotic arm that can do repetitive warehouse tasks
  • Amazon’s ad revenue surpassed the money it makes from Prime, Prime Video, and its other audio and e-book subscriptions combined…Successful sellers have to spend anywhere between 10 percent and 20 percent of their sales on Amazon ads.
  • Two Weeks of Chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter
  • SoftBank Vision Fund Loses $7.2 Billion on Tech Writedowns
  • Debezium Releases Version 2.0 of Its Change Data Capture Tool…details
  • Starlink announces 1TB monthly cap, users who go over will get slower speeds
  • Spotify is the first to launch non-Google Android billing in the US
  • “…The latest Drewry composite World Container Index — a key benchmark for container prices — has fallen again to $2,773 per 40-foot container. That’s 73% lower than the peak rate in September last year…“
  • “…Today, Spotify has more than 80 million tracks available to users to stream. In its most recent earnings report, the company touted its 456 million active users with 195 million paid subscribers across 183 markets…“
  • Apple’s Web Search Technology Chief Returns to Google
  • How reliant are banks and insurers on cloud outsourcing? (2020)
  • Chris Rock is set to be the first to perform live on Netflix
  • Meet Pineapple, the platform aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z
  • SoftBank, NEC, Sony, Toyota + more team up for Rapidus, Japan’s bid for next-gen chip domination
  • GitHub teases new Copilot feature that lets developers code with their voice
  • Apple limits AirDrop ‘Everyone’ option to 10 minutes in China
  • Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system
  • Consumer trends in digital payments
  • 2012 to 2022: What a decade of insights has taught us
  • High-Tech Cars Are Killing the Auto Repair Shop
  • 17 DevOps Metrics You Should Be Tracking
  • Studio Ghibli is teaming up with Lucasfilm

Weekly#501

  • “The new version of AlphaZero discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication…It’s mind-boggling to see that there are at least 14,000 ways of multiplying four-by-four matrices”
  • 3 insights about finance and inflation from Google Search trends
  • Peacock grows its paid subscriber base to 15 million
  • 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report
  • WhatsApp starts blocking screenshots in beta testing for view once images and videos
  • Google Expands Its Hardware With New Pixel Watch, Pixel 7 and 7 Pro Phones
  • EU votes to force all phones to use same charger by 2024
  • “…Washington also plans to limit U.S.-made microchips from being sold to China’s most powerful supercomputing and data center projects, the people said…”
  • YouTube is asking some users to purchase a Premium subscription to watch in 4K
  • Tesla now has 160,000 customers running its Full Self Driving beta
  • Every James Bond Movie, Ranked: The Best (and Worst) of Bond
  • Liquid Death Water Startup Valued at $700 Million
  • Jiko banks $40M in Series B funding to offer companies a way to park their cash in T-bills
  • Visa partners with FTX in a bet that shoppers still want to spend cryptocurrencies in a bear market
  • Adidas looking for a reboot after CEO Rorsted steps down next year.
  • Google will open its first data center in Japan in 2023
  • How JPMorgan Chase allots its $14B IT budget
  • UK Sky Stream on the Sky Glass Platform
  • Latin America Digital Report 2022
  • Musk says Pepsi to receive Tesla’s first Semi trucks in December


Weekly#500

  • Monese neobank announces a $35 million investment by HSBC
  • HSBC invests in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup
  • “…A study this year by professors at Columbia University and New York University estimated that lower tenant demand because of remote work may cut 28%, or $456 billion, off the value of offices across the US. About 10% of that would be in New York City alone…”
  • Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops
  • Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will freeze hiring
  • Chief Economists Outlook (World Economic Forum)
  • Uniswap Labs eyes over $100 million in new funding
  • 1st gen AirPods Pro users seeing ‘Adaptive Transparency’ option after iOS 16.1 beta update
  • Magic Leap’s smaller, lighter second-gen AR glasses are now available
  • “… Bloomberg Intelligence estimates it would take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China, where roughly 98% of the company’s iPhones have been made ….. with China accounting for 70% of global smartphone manufacturing and leading Chinese vendors accounting for nearly half of global shipments…”
  • Introducing Spring Boot Migrator
  • JPMorgan Chase Is Phasing Out Safe Deposit Boxes
  • Pharma giant Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing the sound of a cough.
  • Netflix is building its own game studio
  • Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices
  • 7 Lessons on Dynamic Pricing (HBR)… 2017 WSJ article about dynamic pricing
  • Mapping the Unknown — The 10 Steps to Map Any Industry
  • Amazon’s Fall Device Event: Wi-Fi-Boosting Echo Speakers, a Kindle for Note-Taking and More (WSJ)
  • “…Global cloud spending is projected to reach $830.5 billion by the end of the year, up 17.5% from 2021, but slowing from last year’s growth rate of 18.3%, according to International Data Corp. It expects growth to drop to 16.3% next year…” (WSJ)
  • Microsoft says two new Exchange zero-day bugs
  • Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Banking Transformation

Weekly#379

  • SpaceX  launched its second Falcon 9 rocket in the span of just four days
  • Amazon Air adds 12 new aircraft to its cargo fleet, expands its ground operations
  • Global smartphone shipments to fall 12% this year on virus woes: IDC
  • Volvo Plans to Offer Autonomous Highway Driving by 2022
  • Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging
  • Slack revenue growth fails to impress, shares tank
  • Dropbox is working on its own password manager
  • Two-meter distancing might halve infection risk compared to one meter
  • PWC:Industrial manufacturing trends 2020: Succeeding in uncertainty through agility and innovation
  • From Ben Evans Newsletter
    • Amazon is the fourth‑largest US delivery service and growing fast
    • Opening an account | Analysing the experience of opening 12 bank accounts
    • Facial Recognition Briefing by UK
    • COVID 19: Statistical Perspective by UN
    • 2020 CX Report

Weekly#109

  • Google Wants to Be Handier for Handymen (WSJ)
    Google  is planning a service to connect users with plumbers, electricians, roofers and other home-service providers, according to two people familiar with the matter.
  • Apple Watch and Beats Music Unite in Pulse-Activated Playlist App, recommend tracks playing nearby based on changes in your pulse (PSFK)
  • The electric grid’s latest threat? Rooftop solar cells (QZ)
    Power-generating panels, called solar photovoltaics (PV), represent the fastest-growing source of electric power in the United States. In percentage terms, installed PV has grown four-fold over the past several years, and costs have fallen as rapidly as installations have risen.
  • Amazon Hints at Smart Home Future Through Echo Device (WSJ)
    The company is adding new capabilities to its Wi-Fi-connected speaker and virtual assistant, such as the ability to remotely operate lights and appliances. With just voice commands, for example, someone in bed could turn a television on and turn off the lights. Amazon informed Echo owners about the new services in an email Wednesday.
  • Android Creator Andy Rubin Launching Playground Global (WSJ)
    The creator of Android, the world’s largest mobile operating system, is returning to his roots in hardware.Mr. Rubin said Playground had raised $48 million from investors including Google, Hewlett-Packard Co., electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., and other tech companies. Playground won’t invest in startups, but will take equity stakes in return for its support.