Weekly#547

  • New York Times, CNN and Australia’s ABC block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing content
  • ARM IPO F-1 document
  • Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change
  • What prevents search orgs from being successful?
  • First Pass Ranker and Ad Retrieval, Ad Level Optimization for Reddit Ads
  • “…In 2022, AirPods reportedly brought in $14.5 billion in revenue. Assuming a 50% profit margin, that’s over $7 billion in profit just from a single product. To put this into perspective, AirPods is more profitable than Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Snapchat and eBay. Combined…”
  • AI-powered brain implants help paralyzed patients communicate faster than ever
  • California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems…New system scans over 1,000 cameras for signs of smoke—with 77 hits so far.
  • Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn…The average critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail is 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius).
  • Drought affecting Panama Canal threatens 40% of world’s cargo ship traffic
  • Nvidia press release announcing the company’s financial results, which include a quarterly revenue of $13.51 billion, up 101 percent from a year ago and 88 percent from the previous quarter.
  • Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now

Weekly#546

  • “…Some of the world’s biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle to consumer goods multinational Unilever, are experimenting with using generative AI software like ChatGPT and DALL-E to cut costs and increase productivity, executives say…”
  • What Is FraudGPT?
  • SoftBank is currently in talks to list Arm at a valuation of $60 billion to $70 billion in the IPO, which is expected to happen in September
  • Best Books for Software Engineering Leaders
  • Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia’s H100 chips
  • OpenAI said it had acquired digital products company Global Illumination, in what comes as the first known acquisition by the storied artificial intelligence firm
  • SpaceX Targets $150 Billion Valuation
  • Neuroscientists decode song from brain recordings, revealing areas dealing with rhythm and vocals

Weekly#545

  • Blackhat 2023
  • Analyzing the Security of Low Earth Orbit Satellites
  • Ai4 2023 Day One Main Stage Recap
  • Ai4 2023 Day Two Main Stage Recap
  • China’s internet giants order $5 bln of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions
  • Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Project Worldcoin Is Having An Identity Crisis
  • To disallow GPTBot to access your site
  • Zoom Ends No-Meeting Wednesday Policy, Calling It ‘Barrier to Collaboration
  • “…Once again we can learn about IT strategy and architecture from popular culture: the engine room matters…”
  • Volume Down, Subtitles On: 51% of Us Read Along With Our Favorite Shows
  • Anthropic launches improved version of its entry-level LLM
  • Jeli is bringing generative AI to incident report analysis
  • July was world’s hottest month on record, climate scientists confirm
  • Video calls are coming to X, formerly Twitter, CEO confirms

Weekly#544

  • Claimed superconductor LK-99 is an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short
  • Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood
  • Qualcomm, NXP Team Up to Develop Rival to Arm Chip Standard
  • Apple Tops 1 Billion Paid Subscriptions, Services Revenue Climbs to Record $21.2 Billion in June Quarter
  • AWS segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $22.1 billion…Amazon’s online advertising unit just brought in over $10 billion in the second quarter
  • Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI
  • Spotify introduces new product to help software development teams with A/B testing
  • The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber’s Tech-Wide Hackathon
  • Uber reports first quarterly operating profit in Q2 2023 results
  • Google is offering an on-campus hotel ‘special’ to help lure workers back to the office
  • Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles by Targeting One Platform
  • Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online
  • How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?
  • Google Cloud Skills Boost – generative AI courses
  • Introduction to Generative AI
  • Introduction to Large Language Models
  • Transformer Models and BERT Model
  • Introduction to Image Generation
  • Building Generative AI Applications with Gradio
  • Generative AI with Large Language Models

Weekly#543

  • Google Engineering Practices Documentation
  • Code Review Developer Guide
  • Ben Evans: AI and the automation of work
  • Cannes Ad Archive
  • Evliya Celebi – Book of Travel on google maps
  • AMD ‘Zenbleed’ Bug Leaks Data From Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4
  • AI Is Rewriting the Rules of $200 Billion Games Industry
  • Spotify forecasts 572 million active users for its third quarter, 224 million of them premium subscribers
  • Voicebox: The first generative AI model for speech to generalize across tasks
  • Sony has sold 40 million PS5s
  • Meta’s Reality Labs has now lost more than $21 billion since the beginning of last year
  • Intel jumps 7% as it returns to profitability after two quarters of losses
  • Stack Overflow saw a 14% drop in traffic month over month from March to April 2023…Stack Overflow unveils OverflowAI and VS Code add-in
  • Titanium Clouds Engulf This Ultrahot Neptune-like Planet
  • The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
  • NASA+ is the space agency’s very own streaming platform
  • Apple cracking down on ‘fingerprinting’ with new App Store API rules
  • Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI
  • a16z-backed Rewind launches an iPhone app to help you remember everything
  • Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time
  • How the Partnership Between Apple and Goldman Sachs Soured

Weekly#542

  • Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications
  • Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription“…It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions…”
  • Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk
  • Tractable snaps up $65M led by SoftBank for car and property damage appraisals using AI
  • Nvidia nears deal for stake in Lambda Labs – report
  • US government launches the Cyber Trust Mark, its long-awaited IoT security labeling program
  • Microsoft launches vector search in preview, voice cloning in general availability
  • Tesla launches ‘Charge on Solar’ to charge your cars with sunshine“…Your vehicle will charge from solar and the grid when your current charge level is below the left sun slider. After your vehicle’s charge level passes the sun slider, your vehicle automatically switches to only charge on excess solar up to your charge limit…”
  • “Telecom Italia…about 25 years ago a group of executives from the carrier flew to California to meet Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with an audacious plan to buy the tech company at a time it was struggling to make headway against rivals like International Business Machines Corp…”
  • Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October
  • “…The newest feature of ChatGPT…It’s called “custom instructions,” and it gives you a place to tell your chatbot the things it should always know about you and how you’d like it to respond to your questions. …It should be particularly helpful on mobile devices…”
  • GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
  • Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work
  • Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. Mojo programming manual
  • “…As of May 2023, around 440 nuclear reactors were operating in 33 countries with a capacity of 390GWe, according to the World Nuclear Association, while a further 60 power reactors are being constructed in 15 countries including China, India and Russia…”
  • Sergey Brin Is Back in the Trenches at Google
  • NASA’s Psyche Mission Enters Home Stretch Before Launch
  • Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

Weekly#541

  • Elon Musk says Twitter’s cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops 50%
  • Crunchyroll has more than 100 million registered members, including 11 million paid users…ow the largest anime-dedicated streaming platform in the world, it was bought by Sony in a $1.2 billion deal announced in 2020
  • Podcast: Engineering Insights with Christina Forney
  • A Week in the Life of a Principal Engineer
  • “…By 2030, data centers are expected to reach 35 gigawatts of power consumption annually, up from 17 gigawatts last year, according to McKinsey. A recent Cowen research report estimated that AI data centers could require more than five times the power of traditional facilities…”
  • Of the 34% of organizations surveyed that use AI to create new KPIs, 90% see improvements.
  • Google Play Games beta for PC expands to over 60 new countries
  • Netflix: Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1, Part2
  • Remote work could cut the value of office buildings by $800 billion by 2030 — with San Francisco facing a ‘dire outlook,’ McKinsey predicts
  • The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
  • “…AI Researcher Who Helped Write Landmark Paper Is Leaving Google…Llion Jones, who helped write the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need…”

Weekly#540

  • “…The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high…The globe’s average temperature reached 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday
  • Why Are Team Topologies Essential for Software Architecture and Software Development Efficiency?
  • AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
  • Visa acquires core banking platform Pismo for $1bn
  • Android phone hits 24GB of RAM, as much as a 13-inch MacBook Pro
  • Mark Zuckerberg says more than 10 million people signed up for Meta’s Threads in the first 7 hours of the app’s launch
  • OpenAI announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its API.
  • Nine British Banks Sign Up to New AI Tool for Tackling Scams
  • “ChatGPT’s explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch…Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, the data shows…”
  • Blue Origin is planning to open new launch sites outside the US
  • Worldwide Public Cloud Services Revenues Surpass $500 Billion in 2022, Growing 22.9% Year Over Year
  • Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform the way science gets done
  • Microsoft could soar 22% and will top a $3 trillion valuation as it’s best positioned to monetize generative AI, Morgan Stanley says

Weekly#539

  • FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models, Github
  • Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
  • EC publishes PSD3 proposals
  • programming zines by Julia Evans (@b0rk)
  • Automated Audit Framework For Internet Scale Financial Transactions
  • YouTube tests restricting ad blocker users to 3 video views
  • ASML Hit With New Dutch Limits on Chip Gear Exports to China
  • Satya Nadella said Azure’s cloud server business made $34B in revenue in the year ended June 2022; AWS generated $72B in revenue in the same period
  • Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
  • AI’s Teachable Moment: How ChatGPT Is Transforming the Classroom
  • WEF: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023
  • Who killed Google Reader?…Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
  • Meta is planning to let people in the EU download apps through Facebook
  • Microsoft Empowers Government Agencies with Secure Access to Generative AI Capabilities
  • Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
  • Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT app can now search the web — but only via Bing
  • WhatsApp kills off the Electron-based desktop app, forcing users to switch to the native version
  • Apple stock jumps above $3 trillion valuation for the first time since January 2022


Weekly#538

  • The Remote Playbook (GitLab)
  • TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative
  • Apple’s iOS 17 Will Decode Your Car’s Dashboard Symbols and Warning Lights
  • Apple Vision Pro has a speed limit, Travel Mode required for use on flights
  • Neuralink competitor Precision Neuroscience conducts its first clinical study to map human brain signals
  • Microsoft opened the FTC hearing with a Sony bombshell
  • As the crypto markets continue to face uncertainty, Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong sees greater potential for the digital asset ecosystem to grow.
  • Hospital Cyber Attacks Surge, Risking Struggling Bottom Lines
  • Harvard is encouraging students to use ‘CS50 bot’ as their 24/7 learning assistant.
  • Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro now available
  • Jack Ma-Backed Ant Developing Large Language Model Technology
  • YouTube to launch its first official shopping channel in South Korea, Yonhap reports
  • The economic potential of generative AI
  • Discord Migrates Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB