• Neuralink human testing has reportedly received one FDA rejection already
• OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers
• How OpenAI CTO Mira Murati became one of tech’s most influential innovators
• Scientists prove clear link between deforestation and local drop in rainfall
• Microsoft gives Bing’s AI chatbot personality options
• China leads US in global competition for key emerging technology, study says
• Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely
• Open-Source COBOL .NET Compiler Otterkit Reaches Alpha
• Personalisation at Delivery Hero: Understanding Customers
• Apple’s iPhones Winning Over Gen Z—and the World’s Premium Market (WSJ)
• Tesla’s plans for rare-earths-free EVs will barely dent demand for these critical metals
• Technology over the long run

Mattress. Pillow. Bedding. Small dog (optional). pic.twitter.com/YXSJ1o13Wd

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) March 2, 2023

• Good quality sleep can add years to people’s lives, study suggests
• Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists
• Apple to Launch High-End and Low-End Versions of Second-Generation Headset in 2025
• AI-Based Code-Completion Tool Tabnine Now Offers Automatic Unit Test Generation
• The Future of Service Mesh Is Networking
• Google Photos’ AI-powered ‘Magic Eraser’ is now a Google One subscription perk
• What to expect from MWC 2023
• Amazon Fire TV devices can now directly stream audio to Cochlear hearing implants
• Microsoft brings the new AI-powered Bing to mobile and Skype, gives it a voice
• The U.S. is now Swedish payment giant Klarna’s biggest market by revenue, surpassing Germany
• Top 10 Resources for Learning Solidity
• Webhooks as a Service
• Jarviz Delivers Inspection and Insights to JAR Files
• Multi-Tenant Architecture in a Nutshell
• Games, music and film account for almost half of Sony’s operating income (FT)
• Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse
• Investment banks approach Monzo over a potential IPO of $4.5 billion
• Apple is reportedly closer to bringing no-prick glucose monitoring to the Watch
• ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft
• Roblox Is Bringing Generative AI to Its Gaming Universe

Great insight from @rorysutherland on tacit knowledge https://t.co/vUgIJNnqWv

— Matthew Syed (@matthewsyed) February 22, 2023

Kodak, 2000: "this digital thing is great" pic.twitter.com/YyDnouAZOD

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) February 24, 2023

Strategically, if I was @Google, I'd be rushing to beat Microsoft to bring generative AI to Workspace before they bring it to Office. https://t.co/i7qySAFruF

— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) February 23, 2023

• Microsoft’s Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
• Here are the features coming to iOS 16.4
• iOS 16.4 will let web apps on your homescreen send push notifications
• Tiktok is quietly testing in-app checkout
• Autonomous cargo drone airline Dronamics reveals it’s raised $40M, pre-Series A
• Susan Wojcicki, Googler No. 16 and longtime YouTube CEO, is stepping down
• The 25 Percent Rule for Tackling Technical Debt
• Leaked memo shows Google CEO Sundar Pichai is asking staffers for help testing its Bard AI chatbot
• Amazon to employees: Be in the office 3 days a week
• Introduction to Kubernetes Event-Driven Auto-Scaling (KEDA)
• AI in Your Workplace (WSJ)

• Turkey has recently been struck by devastating earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.5. The impact has been widespread and many communities have been severely affected.
  • AKUT (Search & Rescue Association) : https://www.akut.org.tr/en/donation
  • AHBAP : https://bagis.ahbap.org/bagis

• Microsoft unveils new Bing with ChatGPT powers
• Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad
• OpenAI’s breakout hit was an overnight sensation—but it is built on decades of research.
• Ford sells majority stake in Rivian after reporting $7.3B write-down
• Uber is integrating its driver app with Apple CarPlay
• Lunar, the Danish neobank last year valued at $2.2B, raises $38M
• GitLab to reduce workforce by 7%
• Twitter says the basic tier of its API will cost $100 per month
• Atlassian’s Jira Product Discovery is now open to all
• Benedict Evans: The New Gatekeepers
• Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service is Now Generally Available
• The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture
• Part of the problem is that new technologies don’t replace older ones—for extended periods they commingle

• The century of the self
• Apple: installed base crosses 2 billion active devices…Q1 revenue down 5% YoY to $117.2B
• Apple says it now has 935 million paid subscriptions
• Google Unveils MusicLM
• Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B…YouTube Ad Revenue Drops by Nearly 8%
• Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version
• GPT-4 could pop up in Bing, as Google races to build chatbot search products
• Netflix lists rules and exemptions to prevent account sharing outside household
• Digital 2023 Report
• Every Programmer Should Know
• Amazon ramped up content spending to $16.6B in 2022, including $7B on originals
• Event-Driven Architecture Models
• The end of free returns is coming
• ChatGPT: The Unexpected API Test Automation Help
• Cloud Native Security Con (Video)
• How AI Will Transform Project Management

Jeff Bezos built Amazon around the answers to the most important question no one asks, "what’s not going to change in the next 10 years?" pic.twitter.com/d2K8Al2AlE

— Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer) February 3, 2023

• HBO’s ‘Succession’ Season 4 premieres on March 26
• Intel posted a 32% year-over-year decline in revenue and a net loss of $644 million for the quarter
• Report: Stripe tried to raise more funding at a $55B-$60B valuation
• Uber Eats now shows you how much of your information is shared with delivery people
• Evident, a benchmarking and intelligence company, says its inaugural Index can rank the 23 largest banks in North America and Europe on their competence in AI.
• How Microsoft could use ChatGPT
• Deepfakes for scrawl: With handwriting synthesis, no pen is necessary
• Nvidia recently released a beta version of Eye Contact, an AI-powered software video feature that automatically maintains eye contact for you while on-camera by estimating and aligning gaze
• AirPods are earplugs now
• AI Developers Release Open-Source Implementations of ChatGPT Training Algorithm
• Java Licensing Model
• Performance Testing At Scale—for BFCM and Beyond
• Google releases Flutter 3.7, teases future of app development framework

• Google Stadia is how you shut down a service right
• Apple to Expand Smart-Home Lineup, Taking On Amazon and Google
• Shein in talks on fundraising that would slash valuation from $100bn to $64bn (FT)
• eBay New Recommendations Model with Three Billion Item Titles
• German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase
• Fintech in 2022: A story of falling funding, fewer unicorns and insurtech M&A
• Oro, an open-source B2B ecommerce platform from Magento’s cofounder, raises $13M
• Creating an SRE Culture while preventing a 12 million order loss
• Android 13 is running on 5.2% of all devices five months after launch
• Debugging Threads and Asynchronous Code
• AI Claude Passes Law and Economics Exam
• ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
• “…NASA’s Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds…from a nuclear-powered copter on Saturn’s moon Titan to blimps on Venus, space engineers are planning innovative flying machines to explore faraway landscapes“
• Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, featuring new Neural Engine and more
• Business leaders must understand Vuca and Spofs
• 2022 global smartphone shipments were the lowest in nearly a decade

We just built some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen at Vowel:

Generative AI- powered meeting summaries.

TLDRs automatically created at the end of your Vowel meetings that you can share with the whole team in 1-click. Here’s a quick demo on how it works: pic.twitter.com/dUfhv2x76s

— Andy Berman • vowel.com (@berman66) January 18, 2023

• DLD 2023
• Five key findings from the 2022 UN Population Prospects
• Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
• Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT
• How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity
• Monte Carlo Simulations: Separating Signal from Noise in Sampled Success Metrics
• Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
• Global Risks Report 2023
• Annual Meeting Davos 2023 – Cooperation in a Fragmented World
• MIT Technology Review  10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
• The Wordle of real estate is here. Can you guess a home’s asking price?
• The Chinese government is buying shares in Alibaba, Tencent and other tech companies
• Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off
• UK Treasury considers plan for digital pound
• Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
• Google TV and Android TV now on over 150 million active devices, up 40 million since last year
• “There wasn’t a single bank robbery in Denmark last year…Bank robberies are on the decline in other countries too, as the move away from cash to digital banking gives rise to cyber crime, such as hacks and phishing scams, which target bank details and other personal information.”
• The Guardian ransomware attack
• The American Farm Bureau Federation and John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding today that ensures farmers’ and ranchers’ right to repair their own farm equipment
• ChatGPT Prompts
• ChatGPT Prompts for software development
• OpenAI in rows
• OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot

1/ The Future of Payments…is Red?

What could disrupt Visa/MasterCard/Amex? How might a new payments Goliath start?

Let’s talk about the Target Red Card. Target did >$100B in revenue last year, 20% of which happened on its own cards: pic.twitter.com/AEUya1fIs1

— Alex Rampell (@arampell) January 12, 2023

Google Maps, but with speeding tickets pic.twitter.com/xMB0lWDgcK

— Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson) January 12, 2023

• ChatGPT Creator in Investor Talks at $29 Billion (WSJ)
• US approves world’s first vaccine for declining honey bees
• Mercedes-Benz will build a $1 billion EV fast-charging network in the US
• Apple’s Mixed-Reality Headset Likely to Debut at Spring Media Event or WWDC
• Connecting to WhatsApp by Proxy
• CES 2023: all the news from the year’s biggest tech conference (The Verge) (Mashable)
• 23 Predictions to Prepare You for 2023
• Warren Buffett-backed BYD soars past Tesla in China sales as the company bucks wider EV stock sell-off
• Google launches HD maps for vehicles, Volvo and Polestar first to integrate…Google’s HD map is not a consuming-facing application but an additional layer of data that’s served to the vehicle’s L2+ or L3 assisted-driving systems through Google Automotive Services.
• Qualcomm’s going toe-to-toe with Apple’s satellite messaging feature
• Slack’s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays
• South Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views
• Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks
• Where Is Tech Going in 2023? (HBR)
• What Will Happen In 2023 (Fred Wilson)
• ASML: engineering the future in fine detail
• They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars
• Stackoverflow Developer Survey