Weekly#687

  • Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
  • Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
  • The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
  • Dutch government selects Stackit, Lidl’s sister company, as its cloud alternative
  • Gemini is rolling out to cars with Google built-in
  • Twilio Delivers Earnings Beat, Strong Guidance As AI Voice Product Ramps
  • How Caterpillar is becoming an AI play amid data center boom
  • Citi is rolling out a new internal AI platform that lets employees create agents
  • Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
  • Atlassian stock soars 20% after earnings show strong cloud, data center growth
  • AI Is changing the price of work
  • How people ask Claude for personal guidance
  • Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
  • OpenAI trial recap
  • Who will be the senior engineers of 2035?
  • Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Résumé and Job Posting Data
  • The Great Engineering Hiring Dilemma: Double Down on Seniors or Bet Big on AI-Native Talent?

Weekly#686

  • Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets
  • Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal…Anthropic said it’s committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years.
  • A Push to Digitize the Forest
  • Nuclear reactor company X-energy shares surge 27% as AI drives interest in its IPO
  • Alibaba’s Qwen AI is coming to cars, allowing drivers to order food and book hotels by voice
  • DeepSeek unveils new AI model tailored for Huawei chips as China pushes for tech autonomy
  • ‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
  • AI-Powered Dev Workflows: How SWEs Are Shipping Faster in 2026
  • John Ternus to become Apple CEO
  • AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It ”…they demonstrated two important qualities: perspective-taking and intellectual humility. Perspective-taking is the ability to genuinely inhabit another point of view. Not to debate it, not to tolerate it, but to actually inhabit it. Intellectual humility is the ability to recognize the edge of your own knowledge and sit with that discomfort rather than trying to rush to fill it.Both of these qualities are, at root, emotional skills. Perspective-taking requires genuine curiosity about minds other than your own. Intellectual humility requires a kind of emotional courage: the willingness to feel uncertain, even a little foolish, in the presence of something or someone that seems very sure of itself…”
  • Stanford Professor Targets $1 Billion Valuation For AI-for-Physiology Startup
  • OpenAI releases “Spud” GPT-5.5 model
  • Technology Radar Vol 34
  • Microsoft looked at buying Cursor before SpaceX deal
  • Skill Authoring Patterns from Anthropic’s Best Practices
  • Architectural Governance at AI Speed
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Weekly#685

  • OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
  • “…Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers…” (FT)
  • Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals
  • Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
  • Elon Musk’s xAI plans to supply computing power to coding startup Cursor…Cursor will train its AI model Composer 2.5 using tens of thousands of xAI GPUs, sources said.
  • Cursor In Talks to Raise $2 Billion at Over $50 Billion Value
  • AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
  • ‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
  • Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
  • 4 Ways Your AI Coding Agent Exfiltrates Secrets
  • OpenAI’s Codex Desktop can run your computer now – and has its own browser
  • Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion to Build Its Efforts in Space
  • NASA restarts work to support Europe’s uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
  • With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses
  • “…The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh..The Mac Mini made up only about 3% of Apple’s Mac unit sales in the U.S. last year, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. But in the past six months or so, it has become the must-have host for private, “always-on” artificial-intelligence agents, such as OpenClaw.” (WSJ)
  • Months-old start-up Recursive Superintelligence raises $500mn for self-teaching AI (FT)
  • China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
  • Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
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Weekly#684

  • Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile devices
  • Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket
  • Global Smartphone Shipments Fall 6% YoY in Q1 2026 Amid Memory Crunch
  • The agency plans to have AI “co-workers” built into all of its analytic platforms within the next few years
  • Interior design at 25,000 mph
  • A Meta employee created a dashboard so coworkers can compete to be the company’s No. 1 AI token user
  • Introducing Muse Spark: MSL’s First Model, Purpose-Built to Prioritize People
  • OpenAI projects $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030
  • Anthropic holds Mythos model due to hacking risks
  • TSMC revenue surges 35% on AI chip demand
  • Artemis II astronauts splash down off California’s coast
  • Waymo is offering to help cities fix their potholes
  • Google Chrome is finally adopting vertical tabs
  • Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips
  • 12 Agentic Harness Patterns from Claude Code
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Weekly#683

  • Artemis II mission begins
  • Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure
  • DeepSeek’s V4 model will run on Huawei chips
  • Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year
  • A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
  • Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
  • New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
  • OpenAI acquires TBPN
  • AI fakes emotion, but the consequences are real…
  • Chinese chip firms hit record high revenue driven by the AI boom
  • ServiceNow CEO Builds New Business Model Around AI
  • State of AI-Assisted Coding in 2026
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Weekly#682

  • Sony plans to raise PlayStation 5 prices globally, starting April 2; PS5 and PS5 Digital will rise by $100 to $650 and $600; PS5 Pro will rise by $150 to $900
  • Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities
  • OpenAI upgrades Codex to automate your workflows
  • OpenAI Codex in 2026: 2M Users
  • Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX’s initial public offering to individual investors — at least three times the usual retail slice
  • Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens
  • Apple hires ex-Google executive to head AI marketing amid push to improve Siri
  • NYSE-parent Intercontinental Exchange invests $600 million in Polymarket
  • OpenAI ads pilot tops $100 million in annualized revenue in under 2 months
  • Agentic Engineering Patterns
  • Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps
  • “How to be a 10x engineer”
  • Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions
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