weekly

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Weekly#540

  • “…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

Weekly#539

  • FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models, Github
  • Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
  • EC publishes PSD3 proposals
  • programming zines by Julia Evans (@b0rk)
  • Automated Audit Framework For Internet Scale Financial Transactions
  • YouTube tests restricting ad blocker users to 3 video views
  • ASML Hit With New Dutch Limits on Chip Gear Exports to China
  • Satya Nadella said Azure’s cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period
  • Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
  • AI’s Teachable Moment: How ChatGPT Is Transforming the Classroom
  • WEF: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023
  • 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


Weekly#538

  • The Remote Playbook (GitLab)
  • TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative
  • Apple’s iOS 17 Will Decode Your Car’s Dashboard Symbols and Warning Lights
  • Apple Vision Pro has a speed limit, Travel Mode required for use on flights
  • Neuralink competitor Precision Neuroscience conducts its first clinical study to map human brain signals
  • Microsoft opened the FTC hearing with a Sony bombshell
  • As the crypto markets continue to face uncertainty, Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong sees greater potential for the digital asset ecosystem to grow.
  • Hospital Cyber Attacks Surge, Risking Struggling Bottom Lines
  • Harvard is encouraging students to use ‘CS50 bot’ as their 24/7 learning assistant.
  • Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro now available
  • Jack Ma-Backed Ant Developing Large Language Model Technology
  • YouTube to launch its first official shopping channel in South Korea, Yonhap reports
  • The economic potential of generative AI
  • Discord Migrates Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Weekly#537

  • Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace
  • AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content
  • UK energy companies are only 57 percent through the rollout of smart meters nearly four years after the government’s first deadline for the £13.5 billion project
  • Open AI :Function calling and other API updates
  • Hackers pulled off a $620 million crypto heist by tricking an engineer into applying for a fake job and opening an offer letter containing spyware, report says
  • ChatGPT prompts: How to optimize for sales, marketing, writing, and more
  • Ben Evans: Vision Pro
  • Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system
  • World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal
  • iOS 17 Gives You 72 Hours to Undo an iPhone Passcode Change
  • 92% of programmers are using AI tools, says GitHub developer survey
  • Google Is Weaving Generative AI Into Online Shopping Features
  • Amazon is using generative A.I. to summarize product reviews
  • Microsoft Is Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model to US Government Agencies

Weekly#536

  • Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro
  • Everything announced at WWDC 2023, as summed up by Apple
    • Apple Vision Pro
    • iOS 17
  • “Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor…The internal codename for the app is “Project 92,” and its public name could be Threads, based on internal documents also seen by The Verge. ..”
  • Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms
  • The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US
  • Exclusive: Google lays out its vision for securing AI…SAIF
  • an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper
  • WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app
  • Breaking Down the Monolith
  • The power of AI in wildfire prediction and prevention
  • Bringing VR to the Masses Has Been a Decadeslong Challenge

Weekly#535

  • Everything Apple Plans to Show at WWDC: XR Headset, iOS 17 and More
  • Dependency Inversion or Dependency Injection in React: That is the Question
  • Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members
  • How AI-generated video is changing film…the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost.
  • NASA’s Year-Long Mars Simulation Is a Test of Mental Mettle
  • Unified Analytics Platform: Microsoft Fabric
  • Salesforce could be repositioning itself as a data company
  • Rocket Lab’s private mission to Venus slips to 2025
  • Kaspersky says attackers hacked staff iPhones with unknown malware
  • Back-end development platform Platformatic raises $3.5M
  • Japan to launch satellite made of wood in 2024
  • New Device Generates Electricity From Thin Air
  • Studyverse
  • Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix
  • Open a new window somewhere in the world
  • 2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index
  • Microsoft Is Charging Some Office 365 Customers 40% Extra to Test AI Features
  • Apple touts $1.1 trillion in App Store commerce in 2022, with $104B in digital sales
  • AI Canon

Weekly#534

  • With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation
  • Elon Musk’s Neuralink says it has FDA approval for study of brain implants in humans
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in just 6 days…OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries
  • Ford CEO says Tesla Superchargers may become the standard for EV charging
  • Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet
  • WhatsApp is working on introducing usernames to the app
  • Google starts rolling out Search Generative Experience (SGE) in preview
  • With AI, Bill Gates sees the end of Google Search and Amazon
  • OpenAI is Using GPT-4 to Explain Neurons’ Behavior in GPT-2
  • When digital nomads come to town
  • How Nvidia created the chip powering the generative AI boom
  • Dish in Talks to Sell Wireless Plans Through Amazon
  • “…A team of scientists at Washington University published a study on Thursday in the journal Nature Metabolism where they successfully used ultrasound to induce a hibernation-like state in mice and rats…help Astronauts Journey to Distant Worlds?…”

Weekly#533

  • AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app
  • Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks (WSJ)
  • UK’s £1bn strategy for semiconductor industry lacks ambition, say critics
  • Amazon’s 100 drone deliveries puts Prime Air far behind Alphabet’s Wing and Walmart partner Zipline
  • YouTube 2023 Upfront: Platform to Launch Unskippable 30-Second Ads on TVs, Roger Goodell on Hand to Tout NFL Sunday Ticket Pact
  • Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range
  • Guardian has made significant improvements on push notifications
  • Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS
  • Learn x in y minutes for PL
  • An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute
  • Embracing chaos to develop resilience
  • DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
    • A new way to measure developer productivity – from the creators of DORA and SPACE
  • Teens Can Now Ride Ubers Solo With Supervised Accounts—and Parents’ Credit Cards…The app is granting 13- to 17-year-olds parent-supervised accounts for rides and food delivery
  • Disney World is shutting down its $2,500-a-night Star Wars-themed hotel
  • The amount of water stored in half of the largest lakes and reservoirs around the world is declining due to human activity and climate change, according to new research.
  • China’s semiconductor developers eye shift to RISC-V architecture amid growing chip demand in cars, data centres and AI, executive says

Weekly#532

  • Google I/O 2023
    • Recap
    • Join the waitlist for Google’s generative AI tools, including search, Project Tailwind, & MusicLM
    • Google Cloud announces new A3 supercomputer VMs built to power LLMs
    • Google is launching a tool that helps users to identify whether a picture is AI-generated
    • Google jumps into the AI coding assistant fray with Codey and Studio Bot
    • Google’s answer to ChatGPT is now open to everyone in US, packing new features
  • SoftBank Vision Fund Loses Money Again Despite Tech Rebound…The Vision Fund unit lost ¥297.5 billion ($2 billion) in the three months ended March…
  • Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
  • Disney+ Sheds 4 Million Subscribers in Second Straight Quarterly Drop, Streaming Losses Narrow by 26%
  • The Companies Trying to Make Live Shopping a Thing in the U.S.
  • Stack Overflow is ChatGPT Casualty: Traffic Down 14% in March
  • “…mining infrastructure companies like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining are finding opportunities to repurpose their GPU-based equipment for another industry on the precipice of a possible boom: artificial intelligence….”
  • Hugging Face Releases StarCoder, the Next-Generation LLM for Seamless Code Generation
  • Top 10 Best Open Source Projects on GitHub 2023
  • What is Apple’s play in AI?
  • Attention Is All You Need
  • Wendy’s to begin replacing drive-thru staff with AI chatbots
  • Microsoft Bets That Fusion Power Is Closer Than Many Think
  • Amazon to license original series and movies to other media companies
  • Monoliths are not dinosaurs…there is not one architectural pattern to rule them all.
  • Will AI Fix Work?

Weekly#531

  • Future of Jobs Report
  • Apple reports second quarter results
  • Google Is Falling Behind in AI Arms Race, Senior Engineer Warns
  • OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT
  • Chrome’s HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard
  • ChatGPT and Generative AI in Banking: Reality, Hype, What’s Next, and How to Prepare
  • Bootstrapping Uber’s Infrastructure on arm64 with Zig
  • UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market
  • Scientists say they have found more moons with oceans in the Solar System
  • Mexico, where many work 6 days a week, considers the 40-hour workweek
  • WHO says Covid-19 emergency is over…UN health body declares end to acute phase of pandemic after at least 20mn deaths
  • Apple, Google, GM and the $1.5 Trillion Battle for the Car Dashboard
  • Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops
  • In February, Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime head of artificial intelligence, announced a stunning policy shift to his staff: They had to hold off sharing their work with the outside world.