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Weekly#590

  • Boost Your Android App’s Performance with Baseline Profiles
  • Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet
  • Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness”: AI from now to 2034
  • Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership
  • Responsible AI Playbook for Investors
  • Batteries as a military enabler
  • Apple Announces its First AI Code Generation Model, Swift Assist

Weekly#589

  • Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash
  • Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step
  • Hackers last week brought down the trust’s pathology services provider
  • The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip…This phenomenon happens roughly every 11 years
  • NVIDIA Warp
  • Amazon will spend $230 million on generative AI startups
  • Mars astronauts may require kidney dialysis on return
  • Kubernetes is ten years old
  • Sleep deprivation disrupts memory: here’s why
  • Chief Asia Officer (in Turkish)
  • Oracle Is Shutting Down Its Ad Business
  • Norway discovers Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals
  • SoftBank’s new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone

Weekly#588

  • The Simple Macroeconomics of AI, Daron Acemoglu
  • HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic
  • “…OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Helion to get access to the startup’s not-yet-possible nuclear fusion-driven electricity generators…”
  • Cloud Efficiency Rate
  • Managing Architectural Tech Debt
  • 16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI
  • Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and beyond
  • Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event
  • Developers of mini apps on Telegram will now be able to sell digital goods and services
  • Apple will support the latest iPhones for at least five years
  • Nearly all of Apple’s newest iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs have an unannounced Thread radio on board
  • Rene Haas: ‘Arm has the most ubiquitous computer architecture on the planet’

Weekly#587

  • Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5 billion buyout
  • Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram
  • OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Edu, a specialized version for universities
  • “…In less than four years of its life cycle, PlayStation 5 generated $106 billion in revenue. That is almost on par with what PS4 made over the seven years of its console generation — $107 billion…”
  • ElevenLabs moves beyond speech with AI-generated Sound Effects
  • Swedish climate-focused financial technology startup Doconomy
  • CO2.js Helps Developers Track Their Application’s Carbon Footprint
  • Apple Plans AI-Based Siri Overhaul to Control Individual App Functions
  • MongoDB quarter outlook
  • “…Alzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds…New research shows that people who develop dementia often begin falling behind on bills years earlier…”
  • Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape
  • Engineering for Slow Internet…How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica
  • Feature Flags for Coordinated Spring API and Mobile App Rollouts
  • Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Startup Signs Major Data Center Contract
  • Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus
  • Testing sync at Dropbox
  • Saudi Fund Joins $400 Million Financing for China AI Firm Zhipu
  • Five Levels Of AI Agents

Weekly#586

  • “…Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have held discussions with major Hollywood studios about licensing content for use in the tech giants’ artificial intelligence video generation software, according to people familiar with the matter…”
  • Nvidia Company Overview
  • When Online Content Disappears: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
  • Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence
  • On Fire Drills and Phishing Tests
  • SEC approves 8 Ethereum ETFs including BlackRock and Fidelity
  • Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
  • New technique to freeze brain tissue without harm
  • Reskilling Revolution: Preparing 1 billion people for tomorrow’s economy
  • TIOBE Index for May 2024
  • Vector DB Comparison
  • How Apple Wi-Fi Positioning System can be abused to track people around the globe

Weekly#585

  • GPT-4o blog post, Sam Altman’s blog post
  • Google I/O 2024 recap
  • iPhone 16 Pro Max will get a new battery that has a greater energy density than before
  • ChatGPT now lets you import files directly from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive
  • Hong Kong Officially Launches Digital Yuan Payments Pilot
  • Hugging Face to make $10M worth of old Nvidia GPUs freely available to AI devs
  • VMware Fusion Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use
  • Microservices Design Patterns for Highly Resilient Architecture
  • Advanced Linux Troubleshooting Techniques for Site Reliability Engineers
  • Hugging Face Unveils LeRobot, an Open-Source Machine Learning Model for Robotics
  • Critical minerals problem
  • Strategic Cybersecurity Talent Framework
  • Shaping the Future of Learning: The Role of AI in Education 4.0
  • Realizing the Potential of Global Digital Jobs

Weekly#584

  • Big Tech companies sign CISA pledge to improve security practices
  • Google DeepMind’s new AI predicts how the molecules of life interact…that could open roads to new drugs or more resilient crops.
  • Moving from DynamoDB to tiered storage with MySQL+S3
  • Cloud Egress Costs Compared
  • Cloud Native AI (PDF)
  • OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday
  • Apple Event Summary
  • ‘Warp drives’ may actually be possible someday
  • John Ternus emerging as most likely successor to Tim Cook as Apple CEO
  • WhatsApp officially rolling out update with refreshed design for iOS and Android
  • Google’s Sundar Pichai Lays Out His AI Roadmap
  • Jevons paradox
  • Elvish: scripting language
  • Meta Releases Llama 3 Open-Source LLM
  • Half grain-sized brain tissue with 1400 TB data mapped by Harvard, Google
  • NASA’s Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months
  • Microsoft is launching a mobile game store, taking on Apple and Google

Weekly#583

  • Inside the AI research boom…The state of global AI research
  • How transcripts in Apple Podcasts became a time-saving killer feature
  • Apple announces Q2 2024 earnings, slightly beating expectations with $90.75 billion revenue
  • Governance as Code: An Innovative Approach to Software Architecture Verification
  • “…Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella was scheduled to send a companywide email Friday outlining the new measures and reinforcing the notion that security is “job #1…”
  • Global Smartphone Market Grows 6% YoY in Q1 2024
  • Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time
  • Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $76 billion during Q1 2024, up by $13.5 billion
  • How To Use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Go Applications
  • Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation

Weekly#582

  • Microsoft “doubling down” on cybersecurity “…engineering leads at Microsoft are now prioritizing security over new features or shipping products more quickly…”
  • YouTube Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 21% to $8.1 Billion
  • Microsoft Q1 Cloud revenue $35.1 billion
  • AI models inch closer to hacking on their own
  • Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use…Apple’s new AI models, collectively named OpenELM for “Open-source Efficient Language Models,”…
  • JetBrains Launches IDE Services to Simplify Managing Development Tools
  • Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and the 20 other leaders on the new AI safety board
  • Understanding API Technologies: A Comparative Analysis of REST, GraphQL, and Asynchronous APIs
  • QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
  • Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes
  • DragonCrawl: Generative AI for High-Quality Mobile Testing
  • Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon for AI Servers

Weekly#581

  • Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams…Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s all about AI
  • Netflix subscribers : 269.6 mio
  • It’s time to retire the term “user”
  • Java vs. Scala: Comparative Analysis for Backend Development in Fintech
  • Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions
  • Chronon, Airbnb’s ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source
  • US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
  • DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
  • The AI Device Revolution Isn’t Going to Kill the Smartphone
  • Technology Radar vol.30
  • Stanford AI Index Report 2024
    • AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all.
    • Industry continues to dominate frontier AI research.
    • Frontier models get way more expensive…For example, OpenAI’s GPT-4 used an estimated $78 million worth of compute to train, while Google’s Gemini Ultra cost $191 million for compute.
    • The United States leads China, the EU, and the U.K. as the leading source of top AI models.
    • Robust and standardized evaluations for LLM responsibility are seriously lacking.
    • Generative AI investment skyrockets.
    • The data is in: AI makes workers more productive and leads to higher quality work.
    • Scientific progress accelerates even further, thanks to AI.
    • The number of AI regulations in the United States sharply increases.
    • People across the globe are more cognizant of AI’s potential impact—and more nervous.