• How Duolingo works: 14 years of big learnings in one little handbook
• Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots
• Getting Started With Agentic AI
• 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.
• Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (FT)
• Airbnb CEO says it’s still too early for AI trip planning…
• China’s Smartphone Golden Refresh
• Alibaba to partner with Apple on AI features, sending shares to 3-year high
• AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds
• Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age

• Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections
• Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI…Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results
• 27 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
• Will China’s open-source AI end U.S. supremacy in the field?
• The Future of Jobs Report 2025
• OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s SSI in talks to be valued at $20 billion, sources say
• AI chip firm Cerebras partners with France’s Mistral, claims speed record
• Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link
• Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally
• Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation
• OpenAI is considering building data center “campuses” in 16 states that have indicated “real interest” in the project
• A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis
• The Long Quest for Artifical Blood
• “…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…”

🔐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

• “…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…”
• “…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“
• US Probing If DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips From Firms in Singapore
• Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
• LLM Evaluation Tooling – A Review
• Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
• Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
• Hubble’s largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
• Humanity’s Last Exam
• Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in 1Q 2025 Results: $36.3B Profit on $124.3B Revenue
• SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says
• 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
• Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship
• Preventing The AI Plateau

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

• OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can do tasks on the web
• 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…”
• The AI industry’s pace has researchers stressed
• “…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
• World Economic Forum | Sessions
• 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…”
• 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…
• Global Risks Report 2025

Deepseek R1 is one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs I’ve ever seen — and as open source, a profound gift to the world. 🤖🫡

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) January 24, 2025

• AI in America – OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint PDF
• A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Plans $1 Billion Factory in Ohio
• Nvidia releases microservices to safeguard AI agents
• German Robot Maker Neura Robotics Raises €120 Million
• About 60% of Gemini’s paying users kept their subscriptions six months after first signing up (WSJ)
• AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
• Civilization VII preview: The most complete package since IV
• Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand
• Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into orbit
• HuatuoGPT-o1: Advancing Complex Medical Reasoning with AI
• “…most SMR projects will not be ready until at least the 2030s” (FT)
• Making new nuclear power viable in the energy transition
• Make Better Strategic Decisions Around Slow-Developing Technology
• 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….”
• From Diagram to Code with Amazon Q Developer
• 3 qualities Apple looks for in employees: collaboration, curiosity, creativity

• Introducing the DX Core 4…A new framework for measuring developer productivity that encapsulates DORA, SPACE, and DevEx
• 6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025
• TSMC revenue surges 34% to record in 2024 amid AI chip boom
• What Spotify’s 55 Million US Subscribers Means for Podcasters, Authors and Musicians
• Coding with LLMs
• The UPI network now processes more than 13 billion real-time transactions monthly
• Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”
• The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show
• Intuitive Machines set for second landing
• “…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…”
• Quantum computing stocks tank as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the tech won’t be viable for another 20 years
• 2024 was the first year above 1.5C of global warming, scientists say
• Wener Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
• Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computers Won’t Be Very Useful for Another 20 Years
• Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles

• AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives
• Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist
• Rivian wraps 2024 with more than 50,000 EVs delivered
• “…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…”
• Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
• Constellation inks $1 billion deal to supply US government with nuclear power
• Hackers target dozens of VPN and AI extensions for Google Chrome to compromise data
• How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
• A new computational model can predict antibody structures more accurately
• NATO plans to build satellite links as backups to undersea cables
• Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch
• 60 years of spaceflight patches
• How we’ll use AI in 2025
• The Power of Nvidia’s Systems Thinking Approach

• Cursor vs GitHub Copilot
• OpenAI Details Plans for Becoming a For-Profit Company
• TSMC begins mass production at 1st Japan chip plant in Kumamoto produces logic chips with 12 to 28 nanometer process technologies for use in cars and image sensors for customers such as Sony Group Corp. and auto parts maker Denso Corp.
• Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI
• Transitioning From Postman to Insomnia
• ‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years…Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast
• The Paper Passport Is Dying
• Cybersecurity stories in 2024
• “…Today, a software engineer’s primary desktop is their editor. What is the Mission Control for a software engineer in the era of autonomous development?…”

Watch Nadella describe SaaS apps as nothing more than a CRUD database with some business logic, but once the business logic moves to AI agents, SaaS is over: pic.twitter.com/oWwHS1o2V1

— Marcelo P. Lima (@MarceloPLima) December 18, 2024

YC and a16z's 2025 request for startups: pic.twitter.com/JeIwa9Z3HZ

— Ben Lang (@benln) December 23, 2024

• Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model…The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental…
• Navigating the AI Frontier: A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents
• In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation
• AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion
• Grammarly is buying Coda to expand AI offerings
• Sony’s gaming and network services segment accounts for around 37% of its revenue
• New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
• ‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
• Japan Sees Nuclear as Cheapest Baseload Power Source in 2040
• Do Autonomous Vehicles Outperform Latest-Generation Human-Driven Vehicles?
• The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia?
• IOT: Z-Wave LR standard’s range of up to 1 mile and operate on mesh networks that can support as many as 4,000 devices
• Apple reportedly won’t launch an iPhone subscription service

Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental model that explicitly shows its thoughts.

Built on 2.0 Flash’s speed and performance, this model is trained to use thoughts to strengthen its reasoning.

And we see promising results when we increase inference time…

— Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) December 19, 2024