“…electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today…”
“…The drug discovery market is expected to reach $71 billion in value by 2025 as AI continues to change the industry.On average, it can take anywhere between 10 and 15 years — and sometimes more than $2 billion — for a drug to make it from the bench to final approval from the Food and Drug Administration…”
Google introduces Firebase Studio, an end-to-end platform that builds custom apps in-browser
Agent Development Kit: Making it easy to build multi-agent applications…A2A Protocol
Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude
Walmart executives tell Axios the new Trend-to-Product, a “trend-sensing design tool,” shortens the production timeline for fashion items by as much as 18 weeks
AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows
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Students mostly used AI to create and analyze, according to our analysis using Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational goals.
Whether cheating or not, this raises important questions about how to stop students offloading important cognitive tasks to AI. pic.twitter.com/odU8y2YLIb
YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform ‘New King of All Media’
Gmail is making it easier for businesses to send encrypted emails to anyone
Amazon’s new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you
Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series
How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
Midjourney releases V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year
No Uploads Needed: Google’s NotebookLM AI Can Now ‘Discover Sources’ for You
“..DeepMind suggests developers use techniques like amplified oversight, in which two copies of an AI check each other’s output, to create robust systems that aren’t likely to go rogue..”
70% of the 20,000 satellites ever launched remain in space today
“…Amazon said next week’s mission — known as Kuiper-1 or KA-1 (for Kuiper Atlas 1) — will put 27 Kuiper satellites into orbit at an altitude of 280 miles (450 kilometers)…”
Microsoft leaders, past and present, on the company’s legacy and impact
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has generated and certified so-called truly random numbers using a quantum computer, in a world-first that the bank hopes will have applications for security and trading
Turning round Rolls-Royce: ‘If you don’t score quickly, you lose people’
Latest Memo: The role of developer skills in agentic coding
Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here’s why
AI-Powered Databases Boost the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Process
How the Four Seasons Hit a Marketing Jackpot With HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ (WSJ)
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the…
A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper…
Honest reflections from coding with AI so far as a non-engineer:
It can get you 70% of the way there, but that last 30% is frustrating. It keeps taking one step forward and two steps backward with new bugs, issues, etc.
If I knew how the code worked I could probably fix it…
How a Software Architect Uses Artificial Intelligence in His Daily Work…In the talk, he gave an example where an online system had the requirement to detect ambiguities
Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab
Global electricity demand to rise 4% annually due to AI, other uses…It’s the fastest growth in years as AI, industrial production, air conditioning, EVs and more put new strains on power grids and climate efforts.
Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (FT)
Airbnb CEO says it’s still too early for AI trip planning…
“…The AI system, named Daisy, uses voice synthesis to mimic an elderly woman and engages fraudsters in lengthy discussions about fictitious family members or provides false bank details, keeping them occupied for up to 40 minutes per call…”