• Google I/O 2023
  • Recap
  • Join the waitlist for Google’s generative AI tools, including search, Project Tailwind, & MusicLM
  • Google Cloud announces new A3 supercomputer VMs built to power LLMs
  • Google is launching a tool that helps users to identify whether a picture is AI-generated
  • Google jumps into the AI coding assistant fray with Codey and Studio Bot
  • Google’s answer to ChatGPT is now open to everyone in US, packing new features
• SoftBank Vision Fund Loses Money Again Despite Tech Rebound…The Vision Fund unit lost ¥297.5 billion ($2 billion) in the three months ended March…
• Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
• 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
• Top 10 Best Open Source Projects on GitHub 2023
• What is Apple’s play in AI?
• Attention Is All You Need
• Wendy’s to begin replacing drive-thru staff with AI chatbots
• Microsoft Bets That Fusion Power Is Closer Than Many Think
• Amazon to license original series and movies to other media companies
• Monoliths are not dinosaurs…there is not one architectural pattern to rule them all.
• Will AI Fix Work?

/1 How to choose between RPC and RESTful?

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

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) May 11, 2023

• Future of Jobs Report
• Apple reports second quarter results
• Google Is Falling Behind in AI Arms Race, Senior Engineer Warns
• OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT
• Chrome’s HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard
• 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

— Ryan Jones (@rjonesy) May 4, 2023

• 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…”

• 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

• 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

If you live in a developed country, cutting out watching TV will give you back 11% of your life on average. pic.twitter.com/Gvd2Vwu6lG

— Kpaxs (@Kpaxs) April 6, 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

Timelines are collapsing pic.twitter.com/nFZr1Ngrac

— Haroon (Not A Bot) 🤖 (@haroonchoudery) March 21, 2023