Weekly#683

  • Artemis II mission begins
  • Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure
  • DeepSeek’s V4 model will run on Huawei chips
  • Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
  • A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
  • Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
  • New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
  • OpenAI acquires TBPN
  • AI fakes emotion, but the consequences are real
  • Chinese chip firms hit record high revenue driven by the AI boom
  • ServiceNow CEO Builds New Business Model Around AI
  • State of AI-Assisted Coding in 2026
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Weekly#682

  • Sony plans to raise PlayStation 5 prices globally, starting April 2; PS5 and PS5 Digital will rise by $100 to $650 and $600; PS5 Pro will rise by $150 to $900
  • Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities
  • OpenAI upgrades Codex to automate your workflows
  • OpenAI Codex in 2026: 2M Users
  • Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX’s initial public offering to individual investors — at least three times the usual retail slice
  • Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens
  • Apple hires ex-Google executive to head AI marketing amid push to improve Siri
  • NYSE-parent Intercontinental Exchange invests $600 million in Polymarket
  • OpenAI ads pilot tops $100 million in annualized revenue in under 2 months
  • Agentic Engineering Patterns
  • Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps
  • “How to be a 10x engineer
  • Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions
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Weekly#681

  • OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,500 by end of 2026, with most hires in product development, engineering, and sales (FT)
  • Inside China’s robotics revolution.”…In 2025, China announced a £100bn fund for strategic technologies including quantum computing, clean energy and robotics…there are now roughly 140 Chinese firms hoping to build humanoids…”
  • Anthropic Ships Its OpenClaw Rival, Connecting Claude Code to Telegram and Discord
  • “…We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests…” — OpenAI applications CEO Fidji Simo tells staff the company is orienting aggressively toward enterprise productivity ahead of a potential Q4 IPO
  • Exclusive: Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop
  • Uber will launch autonomous rides powered by Nvidia Drive AV across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, starting with Los Angeles and San Francisco
  • OpenAI to merge Atlas browser, ChatGPT, and Codex into a single desktop super app
  • Work from home and drive more slowly to save energy, global body urges
  • Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run
  • Researchers uncover iPhone spyware capable of penetrating millions of devices
  • Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
  • Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game
  • Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
  • Why CEOs should care about the quantum ‘space race
  • Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
  • SXSW Videos
  • Jeff Bezos wants to change manufacturing with AI
  • Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first [time](Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, according to customer data from Ramp.)
  • Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated
  • The AI startup is moving away from Instant Checkout and is now working with retailers to create dedicated apps within ChatGPT
  • Figma’s stock drops 12% in two days after Google releases vibe design product
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Weekly#680

  • You can now ask Google Maps ‘complex, real-world questions’ — and Gemini will answer
  • Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
  • Microsoft’s New AI Health Tool Can Read Your Medical Records and Give Advice (WSJ)
  • Atlassian slashes 10% of workforce to ‘self-fund’ investments in AI and enterprise sales
  • Amazon is determined to use AI for everything
  • Gemini’s task automation is here and it’s wild
  • Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots
  • Meta buys ‘social media network for AI’ Moltbook
  • MCP is dead. Long live the CLI
  • How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream
  • Oracle cloud infrastructure revenue surges 84% YoY as AI infrastructure revenue jumps 243%, with order backlog hitting $553 billion and FY27 revenue guidance raised to $90 billion (Bloomberg)
  • Perplexity pitches a more secure OpenClaw
  • The Hottest Job in Tech Isn’t Very Glamorous (WSJ)
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Weekly#679

  • SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs…SpaceX prepares to go public at a reported $1.75tn valuation (FT)
  • Google makes Gmail, Drive, and Docs ‘agent-ready’ for OpenClaw like agents with CLI
  • SoftBank Seeks Record Loan of Up to $40 Billion for OpenAI Stake
  • Mozilla fixes 22 security flaws flagged by Anthropic’s AI
  • OpenAI unveils Codex Security to automate code security reviews
  • Why Front-End Performance Issues Are Commonly Back-End Issues
  • Meet your new phone away from phone
  • United Airlines can permanently ban passengers who don’t wear headphones
  • Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
  • Anthropic API Proxy for Gemini & OpenAI Models
  • llmfit, One command to find what runs on your hardware
  • Microsoft Confirms “Project Helix,” a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games
  • Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking
  • Why The Best AI Engineers Are Former Managers
  • Power and Progress: The Mini-Comic
  • Cybersecurity Economics for Emerging Markets
  • “…This means strong software engineering skills, especially around technical architecture, are more important than ever…”
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Weekly#678

  • OpenAI announces $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank…Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia invested $30 billion and SoftBank invested $30 billion in the round, OpenAI said Friday…more than 900M weekly active users, and we now have more than 50 million consumer subscribers.
  • Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents, repo
  • Why Retries Are More Dangerous Than Failures
  • New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
  • Smartphone market set for biggest-ever decline in 2026 on memory price surge, IDC says
  • Norway’s $2 trillion oil fund, the largest of its kind, generated an annual profit of about $248 billion last year, with strong gains in global equities driving a 15.1% return.
  • CLAUDE.md Masterclass
  • Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents
  • Incorporating AI impacts in BLS employment projections: occupational case studies…BLS projects employment of software developers to increase 17.9 percent between 2023 and 2033, much faster than the average for all occupations (4.0 percent)
  • Block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls
  • Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation
  • Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use ‘Dara AI’ before talking to the big boss himself
  • A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
  • Citrini Research: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
  • One of the humblest and most ubiquitous file formats is stumping the world’s most advanced models
  • Run OpenClaw Securely in Docker Sandboxes
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