How the Four Seasons Hit a Marketing Jackpot With HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ (WSJ)
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the…
A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper…
Honest reflections from coding with AI so far as a non-engineer:
It can get you 70% of the way there, but that last 30% is frustrating. It keeps taking one step forward and two steps backward with new bugs, issues, etc.
If I knew how the code worked I could probably fix it…
How a Software Architect Uses Artificial Intelligence in His Daily Work…In the talk, he gave an example where an online system had the requirement to detect ambiguities
Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab
Global electricity demand to rise 4% annually due to AI, other uses…It’s the fastest growth in years as AI, industrial production, air conditioning, EVs and more put new strains on power grids and climate efforts.
Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (FT)
Airbnb CEO says it’s still too early for AI trip planning…
“…The AI system, named Daisy, uses voice synthesis to mimic an elderly woman and engages fraudsters in lengthy discussions about fictitious family members or provides false bank details, keeping them occupied for up to 40 minutes per call…”
“…OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model…O3-mini is priced at $0.55 per million cached input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, where a million tokens equates to roughly 750,000 words. That’s 63% cheaper than o1-mini…”
“…Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the company was slow to respond to TikTok’s meteoric rise because executives didn’t view it as truly social, offering a rare window into how the tech giant missed one of social media’s biggest shifts in recent years…Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses sold more than 1 million units last year“
US Probing If DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips From Firms in Singapore
Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in 1Q 2025 Results: $36.3B Profit on $124.3B Revenue
SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says
Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight.The metaphorical clock is set to 89 seconds to midnight.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created clock in 1947
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can do tasks on the web
Mark Zuckerberg: “…Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan. We’ll bring online ~1GW of compute in ’25 and we’ll end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. We’re planning to invest $60-65B in capex this year…”
“…When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene…DeepSeek’s engineers said they needed only about 2,000 specialized computer chips from the U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, in comparison to the as many as 16,000 chips needed by major American companies…DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
“… 75% of organizations report an erosion of customer trust following a cyber incident, with damaging effects on business performance and brand reputation…”
“…By 2035, the space economy is set to reach $1.8 trillion up from $630 billion in 2023 and averaging a growth rate of 9% a year…”
“…By 2026, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts electricity consumption for data centres alone could reach 1,000 TWh – roughly the equivalent to the energy consumption of Japan…”
“…The researchers, who presented their work last month at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, wondered if they could control streetlights in Berlin to create a city-wide version…”
Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025…In a complex cyberspace characterized by geopolitical uncertainties, widening cyber inequity and sophisticated cyberthreats, leaders must adopt a security-first mindset…
A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Plans $1 Billion Factory in Ohio
Nvidia releases microservices to safeguard AI agents
German Robot Maker Neura Robotics Raises €120 Million
About 60% of Gemini’s paying users kept their subscriptions six months after first signing up (WSJ)
AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
Civilization VII preview: The most complete package since IV
Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand
Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn rocket into orbit
HuatuoGPT-o1: Advancing Complex Medical Reasoning with AI
“…most SMR projects will not be ready until at least the 2030s” (FT)
Making new nuclear power viable in the energy transition
Make Better Strategic Decisions Around Slow-Developing Technology
There’s a Better Way to Predict a Technology’s Future: Follow the Rate of Change (WSJ)”…“You can predict the direction of technology and what is scalable, with 60% to 70% accuracy,” says Khosla,…You just can’t get there by asking up-or-down questions about a moment in time….”
“…StackOverflow, once the favoured destination of developers in search of coding help, is suffering from declining activity, with new questions tumbling 75 percent since their peak in 2017, and down 60 percent year-on-year in December 2024…”
Quantum computing stocks tank as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the tech won’t be viable for another 20 years
2024 was the first year above 1.5C of global warming, scientists say
Wener Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computers Won’t Be Very Useful for Another 20 Years
Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles