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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

Weekly#595

  • OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
  • Morgan Stanley Moves Forward on Homegrown AI
  • Apple releases new version of iOS 18 beta 4 for developers
  • “…Gen Z can help Amex keep its premium billing…Gen Z and millennials accounted for a third of Amex’s US consumer billed services during the second quarter…”
  • Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety
  • Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy
  • “Copyright traps” could tell writers if an AI has scraped their work
  • Crowdstrike Post Incident Review, Summary PDF
  • NASA is testing 4K video streaming using lasers so that it can provide live coverage of the Artemis Moon landing
  • Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro Fold
  • EmployeeGPT
  • Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
  • BNP Paribas, Mistral AI ink partnership deal

Weekly#594

  • Istio from A to Y
  • AI Agentic 101: Understanding Artificial Intelligence Agents
  • Crowstrike BSOD, Reddit Thread
  • “…Just 15 companies worldwide account for 62 per cent of the market in cyber security products and services, according to SecurityScorecard…”
  • Britain’s new government aims to regulate most powerful AI models
  • Microsoft 365 remains ‘degraded’ as Azure outage resolved
  • OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini
  • Mistral NeMo
  • Meta won’t release its multimodal Llama AI model in the EU
  • The rise and fall of software developer jobs
  • Navigating the LLM Landscape

Weekly#593

  • Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers
  • Meta Platforms To Release Largest Llama 3 Model on July 23
  • SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore in AI push
  • Open AI – AI Stages
    • Level 1: Chatbots, AI with conversational language
    • Level 2: Reasoners, human-level problem solving
    • Level 3: Agents, systems that can take actions
    • Level 4: Innovators, AI that can aid in invention
    • Level 5: Organizations, AI that can do the work of an organization
  • Strategic Inflection Point
  • Pluto’s not coming back, but astronomers want to redefine planets again
  • Optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta
  • Apple settles EU case by opening its iPhone payment system to rivals
  • Arm’s new graphics upscaler is like DLSS for smartphone gaming
  • Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Cross 500,000 Sales This Year, IDC Says

Weekly#592

  • Cloudflare rolls out feature for blocking AI companies’ web scrapers
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
  • In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service
  • Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan
  • Figma disables its AI design feature
  • A new initiative for developing third-party model evaluations
  • New AI hype alert: Cost-free knowledge
  • Mary Meeker: AI and higher education to be partners
  • Amazon is planning to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on data centers
  • Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber
  • Mechanical Computer Relies On Kirigami Cubes, Not Electronics
  • Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024
  • What are AI agents?

Weekly#591

  • Five new ways to catch gravitational waves
  • Mastering System Design: A Comprehensive Guide to System Scaling for Millions ( Part 1 | Part2 )
  • AI is already wreaking havoc on global power systems…By 2034, global energy consumption by data centers is expected to top 1,580 TWh, about as much as is used by all of India.
  • AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload
  • How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
  • Report: Department of Homeland Security Report on Reducing the Risks at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence
  • “…Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key – a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content…”
  • Apple Vision Pro Launches in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore
  • Hebbia raises nearly $100M Series B for AI-powered document search led by Andreessen Horowitz
  • Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages
  • Fujifilm once struggled to sell cameras. Now, it can’t keep up with demand
  • McDonald’s says no thanks to plant-based burgers
  • DNA-based bacterial parasite uses completely new DNA-editing method
  • Out of Sight, ‘Dark Fungi’ Run the World from the Shadows
  • From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts
  • Code Galaxies

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