• Future of Jobs Report
• Apple reports second quarter results
• Google Is Falling Behind in AI Arms Race, Senior Engineer Warns
• OpenAI’s Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT
• Chrome’s HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard
• ChatGPT and Generative AI in Banking: Reality, Hype, What’s Next, and How to Prepare
• Bootstrapping Uber’s Infrastructure on arm64 with Zig
• UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market
• Scientists say they have found more moons with oceans in the Solar System
• Mexico, where many work 6 days a week, considers the 40-hour workweek
• WHO says Covid-19 emergency is over…UN health body declares end to acute phase of pandemic after at least 20mn deaths
• Apple, Google, GM and the $1.5 Trillion Battle for the Car Dashboard
• Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops
• In February, Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime head of artificial intelligence, announced a stunning policy shift to his staff: They had to hold off sharing their work with the outside world.

Above the headlines, Apple’s revenue mix has been weirdly stable over the last 5 years. pic.twitter.com/2fCJ0oGYZQ

— Ryan Jones (@rjonesy) May 4, 2023

• ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War
• Germany in Talks to Limit Export of Chip Chemicals to China
• The company said the iOS App Store has 101 million users in Europe, whereas iPadOS has 23 million. The Mac App Store has 6 million, the tvOS App Store has 1 million, and the watchOS App Store has under 1 million
• Smartphone Market woes continue with 14.6% Drop in first quarter this year, According to IDC Tracker
• Android 14 Beta 1 Hits the Block
• As smartphone upgrades plummeted, used iPhones sold like hotcakes…High prices, device lifetime concerns are increasingly pushing people to refurbs.
• Measuring Performance for iOS Apps at Uber Scale
• The Pulse of Delivery: Seasonality around the World
• Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk…Principles and Approaches for Security-byDesign and –Default
• Lyft employees told to return to office as new CEO lays out vision
• Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT
• Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law
• Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145
• Sony reports strong PS5 hardware sales as it closes in on 40 million units sold
• Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust…video
• A recent adjustment, in which the probe redirects a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard safety system, means all five scientific instruments aboard Voyager 2 can stay active until 2026, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
• Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history
• Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that’s 20 times what the city needs
• Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
• Sweden is building the world’s first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
• PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pour $1 Billion Into Generative AI
• Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
• “…Google also faces an existential dilemma. Its search business, which accounted for the majority of Alphabet’s annual revenues of $283bn in 2022, appears to be under direct threat…”

• Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (FT)
• OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it….”…OpenAI’s GPT-2 model had a data set consisting of 40 gigabytes of text. GPT-3, which ChatGPT is based on, was trained on 570 GB of data. OpenAI has not shared how big the data set for its latest model, GPT-4, is…”
• Atari acquires the rights to over 100 PC and console classics
• “…IBM’s revenue increased 0.4% from a year earlier in the quarter, according to a statement. Net income rose 26% to $927 million, or $1.02 a share, for continuing operations….”
• Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida
• Building telescopes on the Moon is becoming an achievable goal
• Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits Android
• Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY
• Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain
• Google Fi gets third rebrand in 8 years, adds free trial for eSim phones
• Solar sails could guide interplanetary travel, says new study

• Personalisation @Delivery Hero: Ranking restaurants for new users
• OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
• Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence start-up to rival Open AI (FT)
• AWS announces Amazon Bedrock and multiple generative AI services and capabilities
• The official ebook edition of Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words is free to read on Apple Books
• juice – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
• DDoS attacks shifting to VPS infrastructure for increased power
• Developer creates “regenerative” AI program that fixes bugs on the fly
• Microsoft set to change the Print Screen button so it opens the Snipping Tool in Windows 11
• Major retail players are walking back their metaverse strategies
• National Cybersecurity Strategy

If you live in a developed country, cutting out watching TV will give you back 11% of your life on average. pic.twitter.com/Gvd2Vwu6lG

— Kpaxs (@Kpaxs) April 6, 2023

• Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023
• Sony’s next ps handheld
• Meta Platforms releases Segment Anything Model to accelerate computer vision research
• Musk’s Month Pushing Twitter Blue Failed To Win Many Subscribers …A new report by Similarweb estimates 116,000 March sign-ups
• TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings
• How big is BloombergGPT? Well, the company says it was trained on a corpus of more than 700 billion tokens (or word fragments). For context, GPT-3, released in 2020, was trained on about 500 billion.
• Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M
• Stripe says in annual letter that it processed $817B in transactions in 2022, but growth has definitely slowed
• GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
• Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence
• Is CatBoost faster than LightGBM and XGBoost?
• Groovy Datasets for Test Databases
• Microsoft Showcases Reliable Web App Patterns for Resilient Cloud Applications

• BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance (PDF)
• Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
• Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun
• Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads
• Google denies Bard was trained with ChatGPT data
• The Path From APIs to Containers
• Lockheed Martin is building a Moon-to-Earth satellite communications network
• Google Partners with AI Startup Replit to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub
• Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies…Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating “significant disruption.”
• Demand and ETR (estimating the time to request) Forecasting at Airports
• What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify
• BBC’s Enablement Team Principles Focus On Openness, Collaboration, and Respect
• Build the modular monolith first
• Modular Monolith Architecture

• The ChatGPT Cheat Sheet
• Apple to Spend $1 Billion a Year on Films to Break Into Cinemas
• “…Arm planned to stop charging chipmakers royalties for using its designs based on a chip’s value and instead charge device makers based on the value of the device…” (FT)
• Google engineering head Urs Hölzle’s plan for increased efficiency, starting with rebalancing the different types of engineers
• Microsoft Loop brings together all of Microsoft 365 into shared workspaces, and it’s available in preview
• UK regulator warns on Broadcom’s $69bn VMware deal (FT)
• new WhatsApp app for Windows
• Nearly 70% of people using ChatGPT at work haven’t told their bosses about it, survey finds
• Timeline of the most recent ChatGPT updates
• HashiCorp Consul Improves Envoy Integration, Adds Debugging Tool
• Oracle has released Java 20, and says that since Java 11 in 2018 it has contributed over 70% of the fixes and features, measured by issues in the JIRA issue tracking system.
• How AI experts are using GPT-4
• In a circular economy, products are used again and again, which reduces our use of precious raw materials and cuts CO2 emissions.
• VW will support Android Automotive for the “lifetime” of a car—15 years
• ChatGPT will make Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters redundant — in less than 2 years
• JPMorgan to Test Using Face or Palm Recognition for Payments…Pilot program may include this year’s Formula 1 race in Miami

Timelines are collapsing pic.twitter.com/nFZr1Ngrac

— Haroon (Not A Bot) 🤖 (@haroonchoudery) March 21, 2023

• SXSW 2023 Videos
• ChatGPT4 release post
• ChatGPT Now Available in Preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service
• YouTube has announced that it’s raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month.
• Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot: your copilot for work…Microsoft to Bring OpenAI’s Chatbot Technology to the Office
• How CEOs Can Evaluate New Generative AI Models
• …thanks to generative AI, the internet will become one big personalized web portal…
• Payments giant Stripe raises $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation
• Microsoft Open-Sources Weather Forecasting Deep Learning Model ClimaX
• Duolingo Launches New AI-Powered Subscription Tier
• Building a scalable PR review process.
• Banking on Domain Knowledge for Faster Distributed Transactions…Thesis PDF
• Update on Meta’s Year of Efficiency
  • Building a Better Technology Company
  • Flatter is faster
  • Leaner is better
  • Keep technology the main thing
  • Invest in tools to get more efficient
  • In-person time helps build relationships and get more done”

New paper: "Negativity drives online news consumption"

Blended study of 105,000 headlines and 370 million impressions concludes "each additional negative word [in a headline] increased the click-through rate by 2.3%" pic.twitter.com/EyudsDOrwn

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) March 17, 2023

• Shares of SVB Financial tumbled 60% on Thursday after the bank announced a plan to raise more than $2 billion in capital
• Artificial Intelligence Is Booming—So Is Its Carbon Footprint…”...Training GPT-3, which is a single general-purpose AI program that can generate language and has many different uses, took 1.287 gigawatt hours, according to a research paper published in 2021, or about as much electricity as 120 US homes would consume in a year. That training generated 502 tons of carbon emissions, according to the same paper, or about as much as 110 US cars emit in a year…“
• Chinese video game developers accounted for 40 of the world’s top 100 mobile games publishers by revenue last month, says Sensor Tower
• eBPF with Thomas Graf…eBPF stands for “extended Berkeley Packet Filter” and is a technology that allows developers to write and run highly efficient and secure programs that can analyze and modify data packets as they move through a system
• Bird still has a long way to go to reach profitability
• Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for preorder
• The future of TV is up in the air
• 31 Startup business models you must know (with examples)
• Building event-driven architecture for member system
• Unlocking Real-time Predictions with Shopify’s Machine Learning Platform
• How We Unified Configuration Distribution Across Systems at Uber
• The AI revolution is coming for your email
• Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short (FT)
• the 100 most cited AI papers in 2022
• More than 200 people have been treated with experimental CRISPR therapies