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

Weekly#520

  • Microsoft’s Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
  • Here are the features coming to iOS 16.4
  • iOS 16.4 will let web apps on your homescreen send push notifications
  • Tiktok is quietly testing in-app checkout
  • Autonomous cargo drone airline Dronamics reveals it’s raised $40M, pre-Series A
  • Susan Wojcicki, Googler No. 16 and longtime YouTube CEO, is stepping down
  • The 25 Percent Rule for Tackling Technical Debt
  • Leaked memo shows Google CEO Sundar Pichai is asking staffers for help testing its Bard AI chatbot
  • Amazon to employees: Be in the office 3 days a week
  • Introduction to Kubernetes Event-Driven Auto-Scaling (KEDA)
  • AI in Your Workplace (WSJ)

Weekly#519

  • Microsoft unveils new Bing with ChatGPT powers
  • Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad
  • OpenAI’s breakout hit was an overnight sensation—but it is built on decades of research.
  • Ford sells majority stake in Rivian after reporting $7.3B write-down
  • Uber is integrating its driver app with Apple CarPlay
  • Lunar, the Danish neobank last year valued at $2.2B, raises $38M
  • GitLab to reduce workforce by 7%
  • Twitter says the basic tier of its API will cost $100 per month
  • Atlassian’s Jira Product Discovery is now open to all
  • Benedict Evans: The New Gatekeepers
  • Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service is Now Generally Available
  • The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture
  • Part of the problem is that new technologies don’t replace older ones—for extended periods they commingle

Weekly#518

  • The century of the self
  • Apple: installed base crosses 2 billion active devices…Q1 revenue down 5% YoY to $117.2B
  • Apple says it now has 935 million paid subscriptions
  • Google Unveils MusicLM
  • Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B…YouTube Ad Revenue Drops by Nearly 8%
  • Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version
  • GPT-4 could pop up in Bing, as Google races to build chatbot search products
  • Netflix lists rules and exemptions to prevent account sharing outside household
  • Digital 2023 Report
  • Every Programmer Should Know
  • Amazon ramped up content spending to $16.6B in 2022, including $7B on originals
  • Event-Driven Architecture Models
  • The end of free returns is coming
  • ChatGPT: The Unexpected API Test Automation Help
  • Cloud Native Security Con (Video)
  • How AI Will Transform Project Management