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Weekly#574

  • Smartphone makers are dreaming of a ‘supercycle’ driven by AI. Analysts disagree
  • Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them
  • Chip giant TSMC opens first Japan factory as it diversifies away from Taiwan
  • First Commercial Moon Landing Returns U.S. to Lunar Surface…more commercial era for space exploration
  • Uber’s CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency
  • Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding
  • Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users
  • Photomath is officially Google’s latest app on the Play Store
  • Apple Open Sources Pkl, a Configuration as Code Programming Language
  • An AI system that offers emotional support via chat
  • GitHub enables push protection by default to stop secrets leak
  • “…Just a decade ago, data centers drew 10 megawatts of power, but 100 megawatts is common today…enough to power around 80,000 U.S. households (U.S. DOE 2020).”
  • Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future
  • Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
  • Search suggestions in Chrome
  • Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed
  • “…Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way…”
  • “…Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog…”
  • The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to science
  • Will NASA be able to return Mars samples to Earth? New audit raises doubts
  • Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio

Weekly#573

  • Nvidia hits $2 trillion valuation
  • Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public…PyRIT can generate thousands of malicious prompts to test a gen AI model, and even score its response.
  • Windows is getting its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
  • Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April
  • Google is sunsetting the Google Pay app in the US later this year
  • Unlocking AI Assisted Development Safely: From Idea to GA
  • Virtual Staging AI helps Realtors digitally furnish rooms within seconds
  • Switzerland calls on UN to explore possibility of solar geoengineering
  • Reddit files to list IPO
  • Mercedes-Benz backs off plan to only sell EVs by 2030
  • Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot’s promises?
  • React 19 introduced

Weekly#572

  • Open AI
    • OpenAI is reportedly making its own search app to compete with Google
    • Sam Altman owns OpenAI’s venture capital fund
    • Open AI new video generating model Sora
  • Every Default macOS Wallpaper
  • Next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
  • Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU
  • How Uber Serves Over 40 Million Reads Per Second from Online Storage Using an Integrated Cache
  • The first Android 15 preview is coming this week
  • How Platform and Site Reliability Engineering Are Evolving DevOps
  • How AI is transforming the business of advertising
  • Kong’s new open source AI Gateway makes building multi-LLM apps easier
  • Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode
  • Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers

Weekly#571

  • World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
  • OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets…Sam Altman is aiming to raise as much as $7 trillion to significantly increase the world’s supply of semiconductor chips
  • US to Launch $5 Billion Research Hub to Stay Ahead in Chip Race
  • Why PayPal needs to fix its Gen Z problem
  • Nvidia chases $30 billion designing custom chip market with new unit
  • Disney’s Epic deal…The $1.5 billion investment 9% stake in Epic Games
  • Fintech startups that could go public in 2024
  • Can a $3,500 headset replace your TV
  • AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers
  • Modern gRPC Microservices: REST Gateways, Part 2
  • Uber posted its first full-year profit since going public in 2019
  • Vision Pro apps (so far)
  • 20+ states exploring support for Apple’s digital IDs in Wallet feature
  • The Future Is Cloud-Native: Are You Ready?

Weekly#570

  • Vision Pro Teardown
  • Apple Vision Pro review: the infinite desktop
  • Devs Can Now Just Say ‘Hey Code’ to Start Copilot Chat in VS Code
  • Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro
  • Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
  • Pinecone Introduces Its Serverless Vector Database
  • DataCentral: Uber’s Big Data Observability and Chargeback Platform
  • How Quora Died
  • Apple ‘preparing’ to buy AI startup with advanced privacy tech to bolster Apple Vision Pro
  • Apple Ramped Up Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year, Filings Show
  • Semantic Product Matching
  • Super Bowl ad cost: a 30-second spot at this year’s game cost about $7 million
  • Google is reportedly rebranding Bard to Gemini and plans to launch a dedicated app
  • The next generation of mRNA vaccines is on its way
  • Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4
  • Meta Q Results

Weekly#569

  • Apple announces sweeping EU App Store changes
  • Elon Musk’s AI start-up seeks to raise $6bn
  • Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4
  • Google’s Project IDX brings Android and iOS simulators to the browser
  • The Future of Global Fintech: Towards Resilient and Inclusive Growth
  • AI and emerging technology at Davos 2024
  • Future of cities and local economies at Davos 2024
  • “…“The GitHub token gave ‘unrestricted’ and ‘unmonitored’ access to the entire source code hosted at the internal GitHub Enterprise Server,” Mittal explained in a report shared by TechCrunch…”
  • Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
  • Amazon released a new generative AI feature to answer shopper’s questions
  • Stopping Uber Fraudsters Through Risk Challenges
  • The Mac turns 40
  • Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight
  • Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028
  • Microsoft Launches Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
  • Discord Scales to 1 Million+ Online MidJourney Users in a Single Server

Weekly#568

  • Scott Galloway – 2024 Predictions
  • Apple begins selling Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without the blood oxygen feature
  • Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Launch With Netflix App
  • Meituan Dips Below 2018 IPO Price as Selloff Reaches Extremes
  • Circle (or highlight or scribble) to Search
  • 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
  • Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet
  • Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuation
  • Meta will have a stockpile of almost 600,000 GPUs by the end of 2024
  • Microsoft is expanding its Copilot AI subscription for Office apps
  • High-Level System Architecture of Booking.com
  • OpenAI announces first partnership with a university
  • Your Tablet’s Light Sensor Can Spy On You
  • Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems

Weekly#567

  • Presto at Uber
  • Evolution of Ads Conversion Optimization Models at Pinterest
  • Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers
  • Google reorganizing Pixel hardware
  • How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority
  • How virtualisation came to Apple silicon Macs
  • Kuo: Apple Will Only Produce Up to 80,000 Vision Pro Headsets for Launch
  • Apple Vision Pro ordering process: iPhone or iPad with Face ID needed, ‘valid, unexpired prescription’ for optical inserts
  • Global Risk Report 2024
  • Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024
  • Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth
  • Vector Databases
  • X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024
  • Music streams hit 4 trillion in 2023
  • HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks
  • Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for ‘enriching conversations

Weekly#566

  • Lesson #24:  favorite engineering management tools
  • Design Startup InVision, Once Valued at $2B, Is Shutting Down
  • Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China Due to Autopilot Crash Risk
  • OpenAI to Launch Online Store for Custom Versions of ChatGPT Next Week
  • Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years
  • RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth
  • Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s…Musk has previously said SpaceX might need 1,000 Starships to enable regular flights back and forth between Earth and Mars, and SpaceX would need to build one per week
  • Here’s how HSBC’s international payments app Zing compares to Wise and Revolut
  • New Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape
  • AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers
  • Google is preparing a paid version of Bard
  • Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search
  • Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
  • How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now

Weekly#565

  • OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion
  • Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS
  • “Figma…The AI can summarize your digital stickies and suggest next steps, and Jambot can rewrite meeting notes into the form of an email to a product manager…”
  • SpaceX came close to 100 launches in 2023
  • Microsoft disables MSIX protocol handler abused in malware attacks
  • How AI-created fakes are taking business from online influencers
  • AI stethoscope…The tool has been licensed by medical regulators
  • Volkswagen-backed JAC Yiwei EV powered by sodium-ion battery starts mass production in China
  • The AI revolution’s first year: has anything changed?
  • The Skills Revolution and the Future of Learning and Earning
  • Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit
  • Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles
  • uVitals – An Anomaly Detection & Alerting System
  • The Art of HPC
  • Microservices Resilient Testing Framework
  • How Did Companies Use Generative AI in 2023? Here’s a Look at Five Early Adopters