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Weekly#530

  • ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War
  • Germany in Talks to Limit Export of Chip Chemicals to China
  • The company said the iOS App Store has 101 million users in Europe, whereas iPadOS has 23 million. The Mac App Store has 6 million, the tvOS App Store has 1 million, and the watchOS App Store has under 1 million
  • Smartphone Market woes continue with 14.6% Drop in first quarter this year, According to IDC Tracker
  • Android 14 Beta 1 Hits the Block
  • As smartphone upgrades plummeted, used iPhones sold like hotcakes…High prices, device lifetime concerns are increasingly pushing people to refurbs.
  • Measuring Performance for iOS Apps at Uber Scale
  • The Pulse of Delivery: Seasonality around the World
  • Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk…Principles and Approaches for Security-byDesign and –Default
  • Lyft employees told to return to office as new CEO lays out vision
  • Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT
  • Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law
  • Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145
  • Sony reports strong PS5 hardware sales as it closes in on 40 million units sold
  • Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust…video
  • A recent adjustment, in which the probe redirects a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard safety system, means all five scientific instruments aboard Voyager 2 can stay active until 2026, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
  • Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history
  • Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that’s 20 times what the city needs
  • Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
  • Sweden is building the world’s first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pour $1 Billion Into Generative AI
  • Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
  • “…Google also faces an existential dilemma. Its search business, which accounted for the majority of Alphabet’s annual revenues of $283bn in 2022, appears to be under direct threat…”

Weekly#529

  • Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (FT)
  • OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it….”…OpenAI’s GPT-2 model had a data set consisting of 40 gigabytes of text. GPT-3, which ChatGPT is based on, was trained on 570 GB of data. OpenAI has not shared how big the data set for its latest model, GPT-4, is…”
  • Atari acquires the rights to over 100 PC and console classics
  • “…IBM’s revenue increased 0.4% from a year earlier in the quarter, according to a statement. Net income rose 26% to $927 million, or $1.02 a share, for continuing operations….”
  • Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida
  • Building telescopes on the Moon is becoming an achievable goal
  • Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits Android
  • Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY
  • Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain
  • Google Fi gets third rebrand in 8 years, adds free trial for eSim phones
  • Solar sails could guide interplanetary travel, says new study

Weekly#528

  • Personalisation @Delivery Hero: Ranking restaurants for new users
  • OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
  • Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence start-up to rival Open AI (FT)
  • AWS announces Amazon Bedrock and multiple generative AI services and capabilities
  • The official ebook edition of Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words is free to read on Apple Books
  • juice – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
  • DDoS attacks shifting to VPS infrastructure for increased power
  • Developer creates “regenerative” AI program that fixes bugs on the fly
  • Microsoft set to change the Print Screen button so it opens the Snipping Tool in Windows 11
  • Major retail players are walking back their metaverse strategies
  • National Cybersecurity Strategy

Weekly#527

  • Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023
  • Sony’s next ps handheld
  • Meta Platforms releases Segment Anything Model to accelerate computer vision research
  • Musk’s Month Pushing Twitter Blue Failed To Win Many Subscribers …A new report by Similarweb estimates 116,000 March sign-ups
  • TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
  • How big is BloombergGPT? Well, the company says it was trained on a corpus of more than 700 billion tokens (or word fragments). For context, GPT-3, released in 2020, was trained on about 500 billion.
  • Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M
  • Stripe says in annual letter that it processed $817B in transactions in 2022, but growth has definitely slowed
  • GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
  • Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence
  • Is CatBoost faster than LightGBM and XGBoost?
  • Groovy Datasets for Test Databases
  • Microsoft Showcases Reliable Web App Patterns for Resilient Cloud Applications

Weekly#526

  • BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance (PDF)
  • Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
  • Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun
  • Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads
  • Google denies Bard was trained with ChatGPT data
  • The Path From APIs to Containers
  • Lockheed Martin is building a Moon-to-Earth satellite communications network
  • Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub
  • Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies…Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating “significant disruption.”
  • Demand and ETR (estimating the time to request) Forecasting at Airports
  • What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify
  • BBC’s Enablement Team Principles Focus On Openness, Collaboration, and Respect
  • Build the modular monolith first
  • Modular Monolith Architecture

Weekly#525

  • The ChatGPT Cheat Sheet
  • Apple to Spend $1 Billion a Year on Films to Break Into Cinemas
  • “…Arm planned to stop charging chipmakers royalties for using its designs based on a chip’s value and instead charge device makers based on the value of the device…” (FT)
  • Google engineering head Urs Hölzle’s plan for increased efficiency, starting with rebalancing the different types of engineers
  • Microsoft Loop brings together all of Microsoft 365 into shared workspaces, and it’s available in preview
  • UK regulator warns on Broadcom’s $69bn VMware deal (FT)
  • new WhatsApp app for Windows
  • Nearly 70% of people using ChatGPT at work haven’t told their bosses about it, survey finds
  • Timeline of the most recent ChatGPT updates
  • HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool
  • Oracle has released Java 20, and says that since Java 11 in 2018 it has contributed over 70% of the fixes and features, measured by issues in the JIRA issue tracking system.
  • How AI experts are using GPT-4
  • In a circular economy, products are used again and again, which reduces our use of precious raw materials and cuts CO2 emissions.
  • VW will support Android Automotive for the “lifetime” of a car—15 years
  • ChatGPT will make Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters redundant — in less than 2 years
  • JPMorgan to Test Using Face or Palm Recognition for Payments…Pilot program may include this year’s Formula 1 race in Miami

Weekly#524

  • SXSW 2023 Videos
  • ChatGPT4 release post
  • ChatGPT Now Available in Preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service
  • YouTube has announced that it’s raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month.
  • Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI
  • Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot: your copilot for work…Microsoft to Bring OpenAI’s Chatbot Technology to the Office
  • How CEOs Can Evaluate New Generative AI Models
  • …thanks to generative AI, the internet will become one big personalized web portal…
  • Payments giant Stripe raises $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation
  • Microsoft Open-Sources Weather Forecasting Deep Learning Model ClimaX
  • Duolingo Launches New AI-Powered Subscription Tier
  • Building a scalable PR review process.
  • Banking on Domain Knowledge for Faster Distributed Transactions…Thesis PDF
  • Update on Meta’s Year of Efficiency
    • Building a Better Technology Company
    • Flatter is faster
    • Leaner is better
    • Keep technology the main thing
    • Invest in tools to get more efficient
    • In-person time helps build relationships and get more done”

Weekly#523

  • Shares of SVB Financial tumbled 60% on Thursday after the bank announced a plan to raise more than $2 billion in capital
  • Artificial Intelligence Is Booming—So Is Its Carbon Footprint…”...Training GPT-3, which is a single general-purpose AI program that can generate language and has many different uses, took 1.287 gigawatt hours, according to a research paper published in 2021, or about as much electricity as 120 US homes would consume in a year. That training generated 502 tons of carbon emissions, according to the same paper, or about as much as 110 US cars emit in a year…“
  • Chinese video game developers accounted for 40 of the world’s top 100 mobile games publishers by revenue last month, says Sensor Tower
  • eBPF with Thomas Graf…eBPF stands for “extended Berkeley Packet Filter” and is a technology that allows developers to write and run highly efficient and secure programs that can analyze and modify data packets as they move through a system
  • Bird still has a long way to go to reach profitability
  • Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for preorder
  • The future of TV is up in the air
  • 31 Startup business models you must know (with examples)
  • Building event-driven architecture for member system
  • Unlocking Real-time Predictions with Shopify’s Machine Learning Platform
  • How We Unified Configuration Distribution Across Systems at Uber
  • The AI revolution is coming for your email
  • Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short (FT)
  • the 100 most cited AI papers in 2022
  • More than 200 people have been treated with experimental CRISPR therapies

Weekly#522

  • Neuralink human testing has reportedly received one FDA rejection already
  • OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers
  • How OpenAI CTO Mira Murati became one of tech’s most influential innovators
  • Scientists prove clear link between deforestation and local drop in rainfall
  • Microsoft gives Bing’s AI chatbot personality options
  • China leads US in global competition for key emerging technology, study says
  • Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely
  • Open-Source COBOL .NET Compiler Otterkit Reaches Alpha
  • Personalisation at Delivery Hero: Understanding Customers
  • Apple’s iPhones Winning Over Gen Z—and the World’s Premium Market (WSJ)
  • Tesla’s plans for rare-earths-free EVs will barely dent demand for these critical metals
  • Technology over the long run

Weekly#521

  • Good quality sleep can add years to people’s lives, study suggests
  • Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists
  • Apple to Launch High-End and Low-End Versions of Second-Generation Headset in 2025
  • AI-Based Code-Completion Tool Tabnine Now Offers Automatic Unit Test Generation
  • The Future of Service Mesh Is Networking
  • Google Photos’ AI-powered ‘Magic Eraser’ is now a Google One subscription perk
  • What to expect from MWC 2023
  • Amazon Fire TV devices can now directly stream audio to Cochlear hearing implants
  • Microsoft brings the new AI-powered Bing to mobile and Skype, gives it a voice
  • The U.S. is now Swedish payment giant Klarna’s biggest market by revenue, surpassing Germany
  • Top 10 Resources for Learning Solidity
  • Webhooks as a Service
  • Jarviz Delivers Inspection and Insights to JAR Files
  • Multi-Tenant Architecture in a Nutshell
  • Games, music and film account for almost half of Sony’s operating income (FT)
  • Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse
  • Investment banks approach Monzo over a potential IPO of $4.5 billion
  • Apple is reportedly closer to bringing no-prick glucose monitoring to the Watch
  • ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft
  • Roblox Is Bringing Generative AI to Its Gaming Universe