“…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
We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!
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
New course! Generative AI with Large Language Models, created with @AWS and hosted on @coursera. This course goes deep into the technical foundations of LLMs and how to use them. You can sign up here: https://t.co/TYY37rUQ0c
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
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
“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. ..”
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
Introducing – Paragraphica! 📡📷 A camera that takes photos using location data. It describes the place you are at and then converts it into an AI-generated "photo".
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?…”
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
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
Communication between different software systems can be established using either RPC (Remote Procedure Call) or RESTful (Representational State Transfer) protocols, which allow multiple systems to work together in distributed computing. pic.twitter.com/cvO3DoafES
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.
Above the headlines, Apple’s revenue mix has been weirdly stable over the last 5 years. pic.twitter.com/2fCJ0oGYZQ
