Weekly#607

  • State of AI 2024 Report
  • Leading with Artificial Intelligence
  • Will AI lead to superintelligence or just super-automation?
  • bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs that runs directly on CPUs
  • “…The contract contains a clause that says that if OpenAI builds artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I. — roughly speaking, a machine that matches the power of the human brain — Microsoft loses access to OpenAI’s technologies…“
  • Artificial intelligence and the economy: implications for central banks
  • Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup
  • Perplexity lets you search your internal enterprise files and the web
  • Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication
  • How Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems
  • The next winner of the AI boom is also one of its biggest problems…Data centers could consume up to 9% of electricity in the U.S. by the end of the decade

Weekly#606

  • Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
  • AI gets its Nobel moment
    • Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins — life’s building blocks
    • Agents are the future AI companies promise — and desperately need
  • Xbox will sell games directly in the Android app next month
  • OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown
  • AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell
  • Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You
  • Google identifies low noise “phase transition” in its quantum processor
  • Linear Regression
  • 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
  • Mainstreaming Food Innovation: A Roadmap for Stakeholders
  • Google’s Grip on Search Slips as TikTok and AI Startup Mount Challenge

Weekly#605

  • The Intelligence Age
  • Jony Ive confirms he’s working on a new device with OpenAI
  • AI chipmaker Cerebras files for an IPO
  • Pika 1.5
  • Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator…can create a new video up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt…plans to build the product into its existing apps sometime next year.
  • HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition
  • The market share of the Binance shrunk to 36.6% last month, down from 42.7% at the start of the year, according to researcher CCData.
  • Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
  • OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
  • ChatGPT’s new voice welcomes interruptions
  • Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords
  • IBM opens its quantum-computing stack to third parties

Weekly#604

  • Automatic takeoffs are coming for passenger jets and they’re going to redraw the map of the sky
  • Toyota and VW fall further behind in the software race…By 2040, digital services and software are expected to make up more than half of auto revenues
  • Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections…“…As the 2024 election cycle ramps up, at least 26 states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications, a new analysis by Axios shows…”
  • HP printers apparently have AI now
  • United Airlines Taps Elon Musk’s Starlink for In-Flight Wi-Fi…Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers, Cementing Dominance in Satellite Internet
  • Gmail rolling out Gemini-powered Contextual Smart Replies
  • Microsoft Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users
  • “…OpenAI’s revenue in August more than tripled from a year ago, according to the documents, and about 350 million people — up from around 100 million in March…”
  • Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos
  • Meta’s new smart glasses look like the future

Weekly#603

  • Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting 2024
  • OpenAI Hires Former Coursera Executive to Expand AI Use in Schools
  • OpenAI closes in on largest VC round of all time…OpenAI  is expected raise around $6.5 billion at a $150 billion pre-money valuation
  • T-Mobile Announces Technology Partnership with NVIDIA, Ericsson and Nokia to Advance the Future of Mobile Networking with AI at the Center
  • AI will add $19.9 trillion to global economy by 2030
  • Nvidia teams up with AI firm G42 to create climate tech lab
  • Prompt Chaining Guide
  • Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments
  • Dead Internet theory” comes to life with new AI-powered social media app
  • House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio
  • Python in Excel
  • Lionsgate, Studio Behind ‘John Wick,’ Signs Deal With AI Startup Runway
  • Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
  • JPMorgan, UBS Join BIS Blockchain-Based Plan to Overhaul Cross-Border Payments
  • Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation
  • Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84
  • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

Weekly#602

  • Exploring Generative AI
  • OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons
  • EU competitiveness report
  • Billionaire and engineer conduct first private spacewalk in SpaceX mission
  • Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident
  • Introducing OpenAI o1-preview
  • Mistral’s new multimodal AI can analyze images without any limits
  • Apple event summary
  • Unity is killing its Runtime Fee
  • As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its crypto library
  • Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
  • Building SaaS From Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: A Deep Dive Into a Cloud Startup

Weekly#601

  • Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe
  • Telegram app, which serves nearly one billion monthly active users and more than 10 million subscribers
  • Everything to Expect From Apple’s iPhone 16 Launch on Sept. 9
  • Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business
  • OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT
  • “…The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimated that 55.8 million Americans made an in-store payment with Apple Pay in the month of April 2023…”
  • Europe surpasses 900.000+ Public EV Charge Points
  • Resurfacing the past…More than 20,000 ships sank during World War II. One man is on a mission to map them all
  • Thinking Like an Architect
  • Visa debuts a new product designed to make it safer to pay directly from your bank account
  • Bluetooth Upgrade Boosts Precision Tracking and Device Efficiency
  • Transport for London outages drag into weekend after cyberattack

Weekly#600

  • Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)…Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
  • OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November.
  • GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
  • Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
  • “…Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters…Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new “Remarkable” version of Alexa…”
  • Gmail users on Android can now chat with Gemini about their emails
  • Day in the Life of a Developer With Google’s Gemini Code Assist: Part 1
  • Amazon Q: “…The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work…”
  • The rise and fall of OpenSea
  • Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026
  • Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware’
  • Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
  • Intuitive Machines wins $116.9M contract for a moon mission in 2027
  • Intel is looking for ways to save its business…The company plans to reduce capital expenditures by over $10 billion in 2025

Weekly#599

  • AI-driven coding assistants have amassed nearly $1bn of funding since the start of last year
  • Microsoft plans September cybersecurity event to discuss changes after CrowdStrike outage
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio Exploit Leaks Sensitive Cloud Data
  • How Lidl accidentally took on the big guns of cloud computing
  • Second Human to Receive Neuralink Brain Chip Uses It to Play Counter-Strike 2
  • New Washington Post AI tool sifts massive data sets
  • Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell
  • OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
  • AI Market Dynamics: Open Vs. Closed, Direct Vs. Indirect
  • iOS 18 adding default app controls for messaging, phone calls, navigation, and more in the EU
  • Twinkle Tray: Brightness Slider
  • After changing its license, Redis drops its biggest release yet

Weekly#598

  • Apple Pushes Ahead With Tabletop Robot in Search of New Revenue
  • Apple is opening the iPhone’s NFC chip to third-party apps with iOS 18.1
  • Grok-2 Beta Release
  • Microsoft removes FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11
  • Top 100 AI Tools
  • How the CrowdStrike Tech Outage Reignited a Battle Over the Heart of Microsoft Systems
  • California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters…SB 1047’s rules would only apply to the world’s largest AI models: ones that cost at least $100 million and use 10^26 FLOPS during training
  • Researchers figure out how to keep clocks on the Earth, Moon in sync…A single standardized Earth/Moon time would aid communications, enable lunar GPS.
  • Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60
  • Istanbul Reckons With the Danger Below Its Busy Streets
  • Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser
  • List of Use Cases Unsuitable for LLM and GenAI