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There are 629 posts filed in weekly (this is page 1 of 63).

Weekly#632

  • James Cameron: AI Could Help Cut VFX Costs in Half, Saving Blockbuster Cinema
  • Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India
  • CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
  • “…electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today…”
  • “…The drug discovery market is expected to reach $71 billion in value by 2025 as AI continues to change the industry.On average, it can take anywhere between 10 and 15 years — and sometimes more than $2 billion — for a drug to make it from the bench to final approval from the Food and Drug Administration…”
  • Google introduces Firebase Studio, an end-to-end platform that builds custom apps in-browser
  • Agent Development Kit: Making it easy to build multi-agent applications…A2A Protocol
  • OpenAI gets ready to launch GPT-4.1
  • Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude
  • Walmart executives tell Axios the new Trend-to-Product, a “trend-sensing design tool,” shortens the production timeline for fashion items by as much as 18 weeks
  • AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows

Weekly#631

  • YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform ‘New King of All Media’
  • Gmail is making it easier for businesses to send encrypted emails to anyone
  • Amazon’s new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you
  • Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series
  • How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
  • Midjourney releases V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year
  • No Uploads Needed: Google’s NotebookLM AI Can Now ‘Discover Sources’ for You
  • “..DeepMind suggests developers use techniques like amplified oversight, in which two copies of an AI check each other’s output, to create robust systems that aren’t likely to go rogue..”
  • 70% of the 20,000 satellites ever launched remain in space today
  • “…Amazon said next week’s mission — known as Kuiper-1 or KA-1 (for Kuiper Atlas 1) — will put 27 Kuiper satellites into orbit at an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometers)…”
  • Microsoft leaders, past and present, on the company’s legacy and impact
  • The Art of Postmortem
  • Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries

Weekly#630

  • Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft reverses gains after Tencent-backed spinoff move
  • OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT
  • CoreWeave prices IPO at $40 a share
  • OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding
  • Google Maps can soon scan your screenshots to plan your vacation
  • China’s deep space exploration laboratory starts operation
  • More electricity — and more electricians
  • GitHub Copilot Can Now Run in Windows Terminal
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. has generated and certified so-called truly random numbers using a quantum computer, in a world-first that the bank hopes will have applications for security and trading
  • Turning round Rolls-Royce: ‘If you don’t score quickly, you lose people’
  • Latest Memo: The role of developer skills in agentic coding
  • Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here’s why
  • AI-Powered Databases Boost the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Process
  • Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
  • DBS: Transforming a banking leader into a technology leader

Weekly#629

  • Nvidia’s GTC 2025 Keynote
  • AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
  • Apple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report
  • Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’
  • Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition
  • Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram
  • Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
  • Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
  • Severance brought everything together in its season 2 finale
  • Product Playbooks

Weekly#628

  • Talk, Draw, Generate: 10 Ways for Creating Software with AI
  • 9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2025 and Beyond
  • Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI
  • SXSW Sessions
  • 2025 Tech Trends Report by Future Today Institute
  • Klarna, 93 million active consumers and to work with over 675,000 merchants in 26 countries, files for U.S. IPO
  • China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals
  • Gemini replacing Google Assistant on Android phones later in 2025
  • AI summaries are coming to Windows Notepad
  • Apple Plans AirPods Feature That Can Live-Translate Conversations
  • Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first
  • Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek’s accuracy – using only one GPU
  • Carmakers Are Reinventing the Gear Shifter and Drivers Are Lost (WSJ)
  • Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
  • Malware’s AI time bomb
  • How the Four Seasons Hit a Marketing Jackpot With HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ (WSJ)

Weekly#627

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

Weekly#626

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

Weekly#625

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

Weekly#624

  • 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

Weekly#623

  • 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…”