• Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft reverses gains after Tencent-backed spinoff move
• OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT
• CoreWeave prices IPO at $40 a share
• OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding
• Google Maps can soon scan your screenshots to plan your vacation
• China’s deep space exploration laboratory starts operation
• More electricity — and more electricians
• GitHub Copilot Can Now Run in Windows Terminal
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. has generated and certified so-called truly random numbers using a quantum computer, in a world-first that the bank hopes will have applications for security and trading
• Turning round Rolls-Royce: ‘If you don’t score quickly, you lose people’
• Latest Memo: The role of developer skills in agentic coding
• Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here’s why
• AI-Powered Databases Boost the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Process
• Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
• DBS: Transforming a banking leader into a technology leader

• Nvidia’s GTC 2025 Keynote
• AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
• Apple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report
• Nvidia says ‘the age of generalist robotics is here’
• Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition
• Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram
• Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
• Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
• Severance brought everything together in its season 2 finale
• Product Playbooks

How do we Perform Pagination in API Design? pic.twitter.com/G0rrWG6fXI

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) March 21, 2025

• Talk, Draw, Generate: 10 Ways for Creating Software with AI
• 9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2025 and Beyond
• Where Humans Still Have the Edge on AI
• SXSW Sessions
• 2025 Tech Trends Report by Future Today Institute
• Klarna, 93 million active consumers and to work with over 675,000 merchants in 26 countries, files for U.S. IPO
• China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals
• Gemini replacing Google Assistant on Android phones later in 2025
• AI summaries are coming to Windows Notepad
• Apple Plans AirPods Feature That Can Live-Translate Conversations
• Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days – a world first
• Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek’s accuracy – using only one GPU
• Carmakers Are Reinventing the Gear Shifter and Drivers Are Lost (WSJ)
• Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
• Malware’s AI time bomb
• 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…

— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) March 13, 2025

How to load your websites at lightning speed?

Check out these 8 tips to boost frontend performance. pic.twitter.com/3nhPxaswhb

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) March 14, 2025

• Speed as a Habit
• Software Design: What went wrong?
• Kuo: Apple’s First Foldable iPhone to Feature Book-Style Design, Sell for Over $2,000
• Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in attacks
• iOS 18.4 beta introduces AI-powered review summaries in the App Store
• Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI Action Plan
• Google begins testing AI-only search results
• Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements
• Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript
• The Fall 2024 Workforce Index Shows Executives and Employees Investing in AI, but Uncertainty Holding Back Adoption
• The new politics of AI: Why fast technological change requires bold policy targets
• Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
• Meta is targeting ‘hundreds of millions’ of businesses in agentic AI deployment
• US communications agency to explore alternatives to GPS systems
• Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters
• ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code
• 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…

— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 2, 2025

ChatGPT for macOS can now edit code directly in IDEs. Available to Plus, Pro, and Team users. pic.twitter.com/WPB2RMP0tj

— OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) March 6, 2025

TSMC has 100% capacity booked through 2027. Yet, in that timeframe (even beyond), we can't make enough chips to meet compute demand.

Enter Intel with capacity and a competitive process. If only TSMC existed there would be a huge gap of compute have and have nots.

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) March 7, 2025

We are at the onset of the Agent Economy.

This post by @DanBartus and @mischa highlights the SaaS and labor reinvention opportunity.https://t.co/0QzCh2X63t pic.twitter.com/TVDfozfJ4E

— Felicis (@felicis) September 27, 2024

• Introducing GPT-4.5
• Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
• AI-Powered Ransomware Attacks
• Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025
• Intel delays its Ohio chip factory to 2030
• Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
• Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac
• Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year
• IBM closes $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition
• Microsoft Releases BioEmu-1: A Deep Learning Model for Protein Structure Prediction
• GitHub Copilot Extensions Integrate IDEs with External Services
• There are 3 private lunar landers headed to the moon right now — a 1st in space history
• Silicon Reimagined…New foundations for the age of AI.
• Future of AI Research
• Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards
• Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday
• The End of Programming as We Know It
• Meet the AI agent engineer

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…

— Peter Yang (@petergyang) December 1, 2024

Deploying or upgrading services is risky. In this post, we explore risk mitigation strategies.

The diagram below illustrates the common ones.

𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
In this model, we deploy new changes to multiple services simultaneously. This approach… pic.twitter.com/ZkrMmu806M

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) February 28, 2025

• Three Observations
• Introducing Perplexity Deep Research
• 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
• Superagency in the workplace
• AI start-up DeepSeek expands business scope in potential shift towards monetisation
• xAI has been using an enormous data center in Memphis containing around 200,000 GPUs to train Grok 3
• Meta Introduces LLM-Powered Tool for Software Testing
• Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip
• How WSJ Readers Use AI at Work
• Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android
• Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language
• Skylight Calendar Max review: a game-changer for busy parents
• OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek’s emergence
• The Dune survival game launches in May
• Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals
• France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes…with a single gram of hydrogen isotopes yielding the energy equivalent of 11 tonnes of coal..
• Apple launches the iPhone 16E
• Google builds AI ‘co-scientist’ tool to speed up research (FT)
• Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon
• Chinese scientists develop ‘injection’ to make smartphone and EV batteries last longer
• How AI Can Protect Vital Pipelines and Cables Deep in the Ocean (WSJ)

With iPhone 16e, Apple is doing their new in-house Apple C1 modem.

This modem does the usual 4G/5G (sub-6 GHz), as well as Satellite and GPS connectivity.

Because of the vertical control this gives Apple, it's about 25% more energy efficient than previous iPhones pic.twitter.com/y10reU7I2h

— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) February 19, 2025

• How Duolingo works: 14 years of big learnings in one little handbook
• Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots
• Getting Started With Agentic AI
• 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…
• China’s Smartphone Golden Refresh
• Alibaba to partner with Apple on AI features, sending shares to 3-year high
• AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds
• Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age

• Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections
• Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI…Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results
• 27 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
• Will China’s open-source AI end U.S. supremacy in the field?
• The Future of Jobs Report 2025
• OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s SSI in talks to be valued at $20 billion, sources say
• AI chip firm Cerebras partners with France’s Mistral, claims speed record
• Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link
• Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally
• Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation
• OpenAI is considering building data center “campuses” in 16 states that have indicated “real interest” in the project
• A flooded quarry, a mysterious millionaire and the dream of a new Atlantis
• The Long Quest for Artifical Blood
• “…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…”

🔐Enforcing Authorization for RAG

With examples to illustrate authorization concepts and techniques by @pangeacyber https://t.co/DtCKReT9qA pic.twitter.com/hIVIB5h9aA

— Bilgin Ibryam🦋 (@bibryam) February 8, 2025

• “…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
• LLM Evaluation Tooling – A Review
• Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
• Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
• Hubble’s largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
• Humanity’s Last Exam
• 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
• Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship
• Preventing The AI Plateau

System Design Blueprint: The Ultimate Guide. The method to download the high-resolution PDF is available at the end.

We've created a template to tackle various system design problems in interviews.

Hope this checklist is useful to guide your discussions during the interview… pic.twitter.com/iECIW90suW

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) January 16, 2025