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

Weekly#537

  • Alphabet Selling Google Domains Assets to Squarespace
  • AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content
  • UK energy companies are only 57 percent through the rollout of smart meters nearly four years after the government’s first deadline for the £13.5 billion project
  • Open AI :Function calling and other API updates
  • Hackers pulled off a $620 million crypto heist by tricking an engineer into applying for a fake job and opening an offer letter containing spyware, report says
  • ChatGPT prompts: How to optimize for sales, marketing, writing, and more
  • Ben Evans: Vision Pro
  • Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system
  • World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal
  • iOS 17 Gives You 72 Hours to Undo an iPhone Passcode Change
  • 92% of programmers are using AI tools, says GitHub developer survey
  • Google Is Weaving Generative AI Into Online Shopping Features
  • Amazon is using generative A.I. to summarize product reviews
  • Microsoft Is Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model to US Government Agencies

Weekly#536

  • Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro
  • Everything announced at WWDC 2023, as summed up by Apple
    • Apple Vision Pro
    • iOS 17
  • “Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor…The internal codename for the app is “Project 92,” and its public name could be Threads, based on internal documents also seen by The Verge. ..”
  • Meta plans to put AI everywhere on its platforms
  • The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US
  • Exclusive: Google lays out its vision for securing AI…SAIF
  • an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper
  • WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app
  • Breaking Down the Monolith
  • The power of AI in wildfire prediction and prevention
  • Bringing VR to the Masses Has Been a Decadeslong Challenge

Weekly#535

  • Everything Apple Plans to Show at WWDC: XR Headset, iOS 17 and More
  • Dependency Inversion or Dependency Injection in React: That is the Question
  • Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members
  • How AI-generated video is changing film…the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost.
  • NASA’s Year-Long Mars Simulation Is a Test of Mental Mettle
  • Unified Analytics Platform: Microsoft Fabric
  • Salesforce could be repositioning itself as a data company
  • Rocket Lab’s private mission to Venus slips to 2025
  • Kaspersky says attackers hacked staff iPhones with unknown malware
  • Back-end development platform Platformatic raises $3.5M
  • Japan to launch satellite made of wood in 2024
  • New Device Generates Electricity From Thin Air
  • Studyverse
  • Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix
  • Open a new window somewhere in the world
  • 2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index
  • Microsoft Is Charging Some Office 365 Customers 40% Extra to Test AI Features
  • Apple touts $1.1 trillion in App Store commerce in 2022, with $104B in digital sales
  • AI Canon

Weekly#534

  • With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation
  • Elon Musk’s Neuralink says it has FDA approval for study of brain implants in humans
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in just 6 days…OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app now available in Canada, India, Brazil and 30 more countries
  • Ford CEO says Tesla Superchargers may become the standard for EV charging
  • Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet
  • WhatsApp is working on introducing usernames to the app
  • Google starts rolling out Search Generative Experience (SGE) in preview
  • With AI, Bill Gates sees the end of Google Search and Amazon
  • OpenAI is Using GPT-4 to Explain Neurons’ Behavior in GPT-2
  • When digital nomads come to town
  • How Nvidia created the chip powering the generative AI boom
  • Dish in Talks to Sell Wireless Plans Through Amazon
  • “…A team of scientists at Washington University published a study on Thursday in the journal Nature Metabolism where they successfully used ultrasound to induce a hibernation-like state in mice and rats…help Astronauts Journey to Distant Worlds?…”

Weekly#533

  • AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app
  • Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks (WSJ)
  • UK’s £1bn strategy for semiconductor industry lacks ambition, say critics
  • Amazon’s 100 drone deliveries puts Prime Air far behind Alphabet’s Wing and Walmart partner Zipline
  • YouTube 2023 Upfront: Platform to Launch Unskippable 30-Second Ads on TVs, Roger Goodell on Hand to Tout NFL Sunday Ticket Pact
  • Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range
  • Guardian has made significant improvements on push notifications
  • Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS
  • Learn x in y minutes for PL
  • An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute
  • Embracing chaos to develop resilience
  • DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
    • A new way to measure developer productivity – from the creators of DORA and SPACE
  • Teens Can Now Ride Ubers Solo With Supervised Accounts—and Parents’ Credit Cards…The app is granting 13- to 17-year-olds parent-supervised accounts for rides and food delivery
  • Disney World is shutting down its $2,500-a-night Star Wars-themed hotel
  • The amount of water stored in half of the largest lakes and reservoirs around the world is declining due to human activity and climate change, according to new research.
  • China’s semiconductor developers eye shift to RISC-V architecture amid growing chip demand in cars, data centres and AI, executive says