• 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

• 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

8 Tips for Efficient API Design pic.twitter.com/48f5zUmkUN

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) August 20, 2024

• 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

Walmart CEO on using AI:

"We've used multiple LLMs to accurately create or improve over 850,000,000 pieces of data in the catalog. Without the use of generative AI, this work would have required nearly 100X the current headcount to complete in the same amount of time"$WMT pic.twitter.com/PtovG5hQ0p

— The Transcript (@TheTranscript_) August 15, 2024

Netflix's Tech Stack. pic.twitter.com/2ABmnnyqIF

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) August 16, 2024

Stanford ECON295/CS323 I 2024 I The Age of AI, Eric Schmidt [REUPLOAD]

The source video appears to be taken down less than a day since being posted pic.twitter.com/tWV9AvM9AD

— Anatolii (@quasa0) August 15, 2024

• Anthropic wants to pay hackers to find model flaws
• Boston is turning to Google AI to help with road traffic
• Temu’s founder is now the richest person in China
• Building A Generative AI Platform
• Cities aren’t ready to handle EV fires, experts say
• Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever
• FCC proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts
• “Intel is bringing GPUs to cars…The GPUs will allow voice, camera and gesture recognition to make it easy to control up to “seven high-definition screens rendering 3D graphics and six-in vehicle cameras and interactive features…”
• NEP: Notification System and Relevance
• Maestro: Data/ML Workflow Orchestrator at Netflix
• Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding
• Embracing Serverless in a 1951 Founded Enterprise
• “…Amazon has teamed up with TikTok and Pinterest to make it more convenient for users to shop directly from the social media apps without the need to leave the platforms, a move it hopes will boost revenue….”

• Chrome is going to use AI to help you compare products from across your tabs
• Meta is making AI pay — in advertising…Meta’s Advantage+, which lets businesses automate parts of their advertising campaigns
• The Summer Games are facing a long list of nation-state and criminal cyber threats that will likely intensify over the next six weeks
• Intel expects to reduce headcount by greater than 15% with the majority completed by the end of 2024. Second-quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, down 1% year over year (YoY).
• CISA names first-ever chief AI officer
• Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users
• LangGraph Studio: The first agent IDE
• Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race
• Reducing the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
• Apple reports record Q3 2024 earnings with $85.78 billion in revenue
• AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
• How to Think Clearly in Turbulent Times: Lessons from Charlie Munger

A nice cheat sheet of different cloud services. pic.twitter.com/69hb28I0rR

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) August 2, 2024

The days of followers are over.

Back to the old days of gatekeepers choosing what people see.

But now the gatekeepers are software.

Prepare accordingly. https://t.co/36u6rpH0oD

— Nat Eliason (@nateliason) August 2, 2024

• OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
• Morgan Stanley Moves Forward on Homegrown AI
• Apple releases new version of iOS 18 beta 4 for developers
• “…Gen Z can help Amex keep its premium billing…Gen Z and millennials accounted for a third of Amex’s US consumer billed services during the second quarter…”
• Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety
• Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy
• “Copyright traps” could tell writers if an AI has scraped their work
• Crowdstrike Post Incident Review, Summary PDF
• NASA is testing 4K video streaming using lasers so that it can provide live coverage of the Artemis Moon landing
• Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro Fold
• EmployeeGPT
• Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
• BNP Paribas, Mistral AI ink partnership deal

What does API gateway do?

The diagram below shows the detail.

Step 1 – The client sends an HTTP request to the API gateway.

Step 2 – The API gateway parses and validates the attributes in the HTTP request.

Step 3 – The API gateway performs allow-list/deny-list checks.

Step 4… pic.twitter.com/CM6trs6FjZ

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) July 19, 2024

• Istio from A to Y
• AI Agentic 101: Understanding Artificial Intelligence Agents
• Crowstrike BSOD, Reddit Thread
• “…Just 15 companies worldwide account for 62 per cent of the market in cyber security products and services, according to SecurityScorecard…”
• Britain’s new government aims to regulate most powerful AI models
• Microsoft 365 remains ‘degraded’ as Azure outage resolved
• OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini
• Mistral NeMo
• Meta won’t release its multimodal Llama AI model in the EU
• The rise and fall of software developer jobs
• Navigating the LLM Landscape

• Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all US customers
• Meta Platforms To Release Largest Llama 3 Model on July 23
• SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore in AI push
• Open AI – AI Stages
  • Level 1: Chatbots, AI with conversational language
  • Level 2: Reasoners, human-level problem solving
  • Level 3: Agents, systems that can take actions
  • Level 4: Innovators, AI that can aid in invention
  • Level 5: Organizations, AI that can do the work of an organization
• Strategic Inflection Point
• Pluto’s not coming back, but astronomers want to redefine planets again
• Optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta
• Apple settles EU case by opening its iPhone payment system to rivals
• Arm’s new graphics upscaler is like DLSS for smartphone gaming
• Apple’s Vision Pro Won’t Cross 500,000 Sales This Year, IDC Says

• Cloudflare rolls out feature for blocking AI companies’ web scrapers
• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
• In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service
• Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan
• Figma disables its AI design feature
• A new initiative for developing third-party model evaluations
• New AI hype alert: Cost-free knowledge
• Mary Meeker: AI and higher education to be partners
• Amazon is planning to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on data centers
• Introduction to Kafka Tiered Storage at Uber
• Mechanical Computer Relies On Kirigami Cubes, Not Electronics
• Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024
• What are AI agents?