Weekly#605

  • The Intelligence Age
  • Jony Ive confirms he’s working on a new device with OpenAI
  • AI chipmaker Cerebras files for an IPO
  • Pika 1.5
  • Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator…can create a new video up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt…plans to build the product into its existing apps sometime next year.
  • HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition
  • The market share of the Binance shrunk to 36.6% last month, down from 42.7% at the start of the year, according to researcher CCData.
  • Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
  • OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
  • ChatGPT’s new voice welcomes interruptions
  • Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords
  • IBM opens its quantum-computing stack to third parties

Weekly#604

  • Automatic takeoffs are coming for passenger jets and they’re going to redraw the map of the sky
  • Toyota and VW fall further behind in the software race…By 2040, digital services and software are expected to make up more than half of auto revenues
  • Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections“…As the 2024 election cycle ramps up, at least 26 states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications, a new analysis by Axios shows…”
  • HP printers apparently have AI now
  • United Airlines Taps Elon Musk’s Starlink for In-Flight Wi-Fi…Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers, Cementing Dominance in Satellite Internet
  • Gmail rolling out Gemini-powered Contextual Smart Replies
  • Microsoft Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users
  • “…OpenAI’s revenue in August more than tripled from a year ago, according to the documents, and about 350 million people — up from around 100 million in March…”
  • Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos
  • Meta’s new smart glasses look like the future

Weekly#603

  • Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting 2024
  • OpenAI Hires Former Coursera Executive to Expand AI Use in Schools
  • OpenAI closes in on largest VC round of all time…OpenAI  is expected raise around $6.5 billion at a $150 billion pre-money valuation
  • T-Mobile Announces Technology Partnership with NVIDIA, Ericsson and Nokia to Advance the Future of Mobile Networking with AI at the Center
  • AI will add $19.9 trillion to global economy by 2030
  • Nvidia teams up with AI firm G42 to create climate tech lab
  • Prompt Chaining Guide
  • Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments
  • Dead Internet theory” comes to life with new AI-powered social media app
  • House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio
  • Python in Excel
  • Lionsgate, Studio Behind ‘John Wick,’ Signs Deal With AI Startup Runway
  • Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
  • JPMorgan, UBS Join BIS Blockchain-Based Plan to Overhaul Cross-Border Payments
  • Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation
  • Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84
  • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

Weekly#602

  • Exploring Generative AI
  • OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons
  • EU competitiveness report
  • Billionaire and engineer conduct first private spacewalk in SpaceX mission
  • Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident
  • Introducing OpenAI o1-preview
  • Mistral’s new multimodal AI can analyze images without any limits
  • Apple event summary
  • Unity is killing its Runtime Fee
  • As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its crypto library
  • Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
  • Building SaaS From Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: A Deep Dive Into a Cloud Startup

Weekly#601

  • Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe
  • Telegram app, which serves nearly one billion monthly active users and more than 10 million subscribers
  • Everything to Expect From Apple’s iPhone 16 Launch on Sept. 9
  • Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business
  • OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT
  • “…The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimated that 55.8 million Americans made an in-store payment with Apple Pay in the month of April 2023…”
  • Europe surpasses 900.000+ Public EV Charge Points
  • Resurfacing the past…More than 20,000 ships sank during World War II. One man is on a mission to map them all
  • Thinking Like an Architect
  • Visa debuts a new product designed to make it safer to pay directly from your bank account
  • Bluetooth Upgrade Boosts Precision Tracking and Device Efficiency
  • Transport for London outages drag into weekend after cyberattack

Weekly#600

  • Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)…Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
  • OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November.
  • GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
  • Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
  • “…Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters…Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new “Remarkable” version of Alexa…”
  • Gmail users on Android can now chat with Gemini about their emails
  • Day in the Life of a Developer With Google’s Gemini Code Assist: Part 1
  • Amazon Q: “…The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work…”
  • The rise and fall of OpenSea
  • Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026
  • Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware
  • Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
  • Intuitive Machines wins $116.9M contract for a moon mission in 2027
  • Intel is looking for ways to save its business…The company plans to reduce capital expenditures by over $10 billion in 2025

Weekly#599

  • AI-driven coding assistants have amassed nearly $1bn of funding since the start of last year
  • Microsoft plans September cybersecurity event to discuss changes after CrowdStrike outage
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio Exploit Leaks Sensitive Cloud Data
  • How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing
  • Second Human to Receive Neuralink Brain Chip Uses It to Play Counter-Strike 2
  • New Washington Post AI tool sifts massive data sets
  • Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell
  • OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
  • AI Market Dynamics: Open Vs. Closed, Direct Vs. Indirect
  • iOS 18 adding default app controls for messaging, phone calls, navigation, and more in the EU
  • Twinkle Tray: Brightness Slider
  • After changing its license, Redis drops its biggest release yet

Weekly#598

  • Apple Pushes Ahead With Tabletop Robot in Search of New Revenue
  • Apple is opening the iPhone’s NFC chip to third-party apps with iOS 18.1
  • Grok-2 Beta Release
  • Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11
  • Top 100 AI Tools
  • How the CrowdStrike Tech Outage Reignited a Battle Over the Heart of Microsoft Systems
  • California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters…SB 1047’s rules would only apply to the world’s largest AI models: ones that cost at least $100 million and use 10^26 FLOPS during training
  • Researchers figure out how to keep clocks on the Earth, Moon in sync…A single standardized Earth/Moon time would aid communications, enable lunar GPS.
  • Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60
  • Istanbul Reckons With the Danger Below Its Busy Streets
  • Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser
  • List of Use Cases Unsuitable for LLM and GenAI

Weekly#597

  • Anthropic wants to pay hackers to find model flaws
  • Boston is turning to Google AI to help with road traffic
  • Temu’s founder is now the richest person in China
  • Building A Generative AI Platform
  • Cities aren’t ready to handle EV fires, experts say
  • Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever
  • FCC proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts
  • “Intel is bringing GPUs to cars…The GPUs will allow voice, camera and gesture recognition to make it easy to control up to “seven high-definition screens rendering 3D graphics and six-in vehicle cameras and interactive features…”
  • NEP: Notification System and Relevance
  • Maestro: Data/ML Workflow Orchestrator at Netflix
  • Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding
  • Embracing Serverless in a 1951 Founded Enterprise
  • “…Amazon has teamed up with TikTok and Pinterest to make it more convenient for users to shop directly from the social media apps without the need to leave the platforms, a move it hopes will boost revenue….”

Weekly#596

  • Chrome is going to use AI to help you compare products from across your tabs
  • Meta is making AI pay — in advertising…Meta’s Advantage+, which lets businesses automate parts of their advertising campaigns
  • The Summer Games are facing a long list of nation-state and criminal cyber threats that will likely intensify over the next six weeks
  • Intel expects to reduce headcount by greater than 15% with the majority completed by the end of 2024. Second-quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, down 1% year over year (YoY).
  • CISA names first-ever chief AI officer
  • Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users
  • LangGraph Studio: The first agent IDE
  • Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race
  • Reducing the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
  • Apple reports record Q3 2024 earnings with $85.78 billion in revenue
  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
  • How to Think Clearly in Turbulent Times: Lessons from Charlie Munger