First Pass Ranker and Ad Retrieval, Ad Level Optimization for Reddit Ads
“…In 2022, AirPods reportedly brought in $14.5 billion in revenue. Assuming a 50% profit margin, that’s over $7 billion in profit just from a single product. To put this into perspective, AirPods is more profitable than Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Snapchat and eBay. Combined…”
AI-powered brain implants help paralyzed patients communicate faster than ever
California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems…New system scans over 1,000 cameras for signs of smoke—with 77 hits so far.
Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn…The average critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail is 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius).
Drought affecting Panama Canal threatens 40% of world’s cargo ship traffic
Nvidia press release announcing the company’s financial results, which include a quarterly revenue of $13.51 billion, up 101 percent from a year ago and 88 percent from the previous quarter.
“…Some of the world’s biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle to consumer goods multinational Unilever, are experimenting with using generative AI software like ChatGPT and DALL-E to cut costs and increase productivity, executives say…”
Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia’s H100 chips
OpenAI said it had acquired digital products company Global Illumination, in what comes as the first known acquisition by the storied artificial intelligence firm
Neuroscientists decode song from brain recordings, revealing areas dealing with rhythm and vocals
Excellent deep dive on GPU supply and demand. Covers everything from startups' needs to public cloud capacity to the chemicals required for producing GPUs (!!). https://t.co/fVXLE2jDmFpic.twitter.com/9jonl7dWBy
Zoom Ends No-Meeting Wednesday Policy, Calling It ‘Barrier to Collaboration’
“…Once again we can learn about IT strategy and architecture from popular culture: the engine room matters…”
Volume Down, Subtitles On: 51% of Us Read Along With Our Favorite Shows
Anthropic launches improved version of its entry-level LLM
Jeli is bringing generative AI to incident report analysis
July was world’s hottest month on record, climate scientists confirm
Video calls are coming to X, formerly Twitter, CEO confirms
In this situation, I would chose to learn the language my tools were written in. If I were using Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, or Terraform, then I would be learning Go over Python.
Mainly so I could troubleshoot, extend, or contribute back to the tools I rely on. https://t.co/3RlPGo4Sgo
Claimed superconductor LK-99 is an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short
Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood
Qualcomm, NXP Team Up to Develop Rival to Arm Chip Standard
Apple Tops 1 Billion Paid Subscriptions, Services Revenue Climbs to Record $21.2 Billion in June Quarter
AWS segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $22.1 billion…Amazon’s online advertising unit just brought in over $10 billion in the second quarter
Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI
Spotify introduces new product to help software development teams with A/B testing
The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber’s Tech-Wide Hackathon
Uber reports first quarterly operating profit in Q2 2023 results
Google is offering an on-campus hotel ‘special’ to help lure workers back to the office
Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles by Targeting One Platform
Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online
🔹 list: keep your Twitter feeds 🔹 stack: support undo/redo of the word editor 🔹 queue: keep printer jobs, or send user actions in-game 🔹 heap: task scheduling 🔹 tree: keep the HTML document, or for AI decision 🔹 suffix tree:… pic.twitter.com/swDVhv4YEx
Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications
Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription“…It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions…”
Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk
Tractable snaps up $65M led by SoftBank for car and property damage appraisals using AI
Nvidia nears deal for stake in Lambda Labs – report
US government launches the Cyber Trust Mark, its long-awaited IoT security labeling program
Microsoft launches vector search in preview, voice cloning in general availability
Tesla launches ‘Charge on Solar’ to charge your cars with sunshine“…Your vehicle will charge from solar and the grid when your current charge level is below the left sun slider. After your vehicle’s charge level passes the sun slider, your vehicle automatically switches to only charge on excess solar up to your charge limit…”
“Telecom Italia…about 25 years ago a group of executives from the carrier flew to California to meet Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with an audacious plan to buy the tech company at a time it was struggling to make headway against rivals like International Business Machines Corp…”
Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October
“…The newest feature of ChatGPT…It’s called “custom instructions,” and it gives you a place to tell your chatbot the things it should always know about you and how you’d like it to respond to your questions. …It should be particularly helpful on mobile devices…”
GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work
Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. Mojo programming manual
“…As of May 2023, around 440 nuclear reactors were operating in 33 countries with a capacity of 390GWe, according to the World Nuclear Association, while a further 60 power reactors are being constructed in 15 countries including China, India and Russia…”
Elon Musk says Twitter’s cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops 50%
Crunchyroll has more than 100 million registered members, including 11 million paid users…ow the largest anime-dedicated streaming platform in the world, it was bought by Sony in a $1.2 billion deal announced in 2020
Podcast: Engineering Insights with Christina Forney
“…By 2030, data centers are expected to reach 35 gigawatts of power consumption annually, up from 17 gigawatts last year, according to McKinsey. A recent Cowen research report estimated that AI data centers could require more than five times the power of traditional facilities…”
Of the 34% of organizations surveyed that use AI to create new KPIs, 90% see improvements.
Google Play Games beta for PC expands to over 60 new countries
Netflix: Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1, Part2
Remote work could cut the value of office buildings by $800 billion by 2030 — with San Francisco facing a ‘dire outlook,’ McKinsey predicts
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
“…AI Researcher Who Helped Write Landmark Paper Is Leaving Google…Llion Jones, who helped write the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need…”
“…The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high…The globe’s average temperature reached 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday“
Why Are Team Topologies Essential for Software Architecture and Software Development Efficiency?
AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Visa acquires core banking platform Pismo for $1bn
Android phone hits 24GB of RAM, as much as a 13-inch MacBook Pro
Mark Zuckerberg says more than 10 million people signed up for Meta’s Threads in the first 7 hours of the app’s launch
OpenAI announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its API.
Nine British Banks Sign Up to New AI Tool for Tackling Scams
“ChatGPT’s explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch…Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, the data shows…”
Blue Origin is planning to open new launch sites outside the US
Worldwide Public Cloud Services Revenues Surpass $500 Billion in 2022, Growing 22.9% Year Over Year
Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform the way science gets done
Microsoft could soar 22% and will top a $3 trillion valuation as it’s best positioned to monetize generative AI, Morgan Stanley says
We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!
Who killed Google Reader?…Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
Meta is planning to let people in the EU download apps through Facebook
Microsoft Empowers Government Agencies with Secure Access to Generative AI Capabilities
Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
OpenAI’s ChatGPT app can now search the web — but only via Bing
WhatsApp kills off the Electron-based desktop app, forcing users to switch to the native version
Apple stock jumps above $3 trillion valuation for the first time since January 2022
New course! Generative AI with Large Language Models, created with @AWS and hosted on @coursera. This course goes deep into the technical foundations of LLMs and how to use them. You can sign up here: https://t.co/TYY37rUQ0c