Weekly#647

  • Apple iOS 26 public beta arrives
  • Google’s new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes
  • OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
  • The battery-powered Starlink Mini is here
  • Recommitting to our why, what, and how
  • Indian Studio Uses AI To Change Film’s Ending Without Director’s Consent
  • Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
  • Google set up two robotic arms for a game of infinite table tennis
  • Pebble is officially Pebble again

Weekly#646

  • How we built our multi-agent research system
  • Generative AI and the Nature of Work
  • Introducing Kiro
  • Amazon-backed Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for financial services
  • Google Is Said to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Assets, Talent…Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf
  • Reflections on OpenAI
  • How to Build Secure Software without Sacrificing Productivity
  • OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
  • Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
  • Everything learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra
  • “…By the end of the year, Delta plans for 20% of its ticket prices to be individually determined using AI, president Glen Hauenstein told investors last week…”
  • Google’s head of Android said the computer science major needs a ‘rebrand‘
  • OpenAI will rely on Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its application programming interface in several countries
  • Google’s AI can now make phone calls for you
  • Meta Hires Two Key Apple AI Experts After Poaching Their Boss
  • FourCastNet 3: A geometric approach to probabilistic machine-learning weather forecasting at scale

Weekly#645

  • The Real AI Race
  • AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner
  • With Varda Space, leading Silicon Valley players make big bet on making drugs in space
  • How Pair Programming Enhanced Development Speed, Focus, and Flow
  • Robot surgery on humans could be trialled within decade after success on pig organs
  • Nvidia becomes first member of the $4 trillion club
  • YouTube is shutting down its Trending page after 10 years
  • Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
  • Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox
  • Chinese Satellites Complete First High-Altitude Rendezvous for Possible Groundbreaking Refueling
  • Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
  • AI Native DevCon – Spring 2025

Weekly#644

  • Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
  • ASML, Airbus, Mistral Ask EU to Delay Start of AI Act Rules
  • Microsoft will cut less than 4% of its global workforce across teams, role types and geographies
  • Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman
  • Behind the Curtain: Zuck’s AI moonshot
  • AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams
  • Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years
  • Seizing the agentic AI advantage
  • Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence
  • Norway Reached 96.9% Market Share for EVs in June
  • Figma files for IPO on NYSE
  • Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot, releases generative AI model

Weekly#643

  • Meta hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working at the ChatGPT-owner’s Zurich office, the WSJ reported
  • Starlink helps eight more nation pass 50% IPv6 Adoption
  • Microsoft is retiring the infamous ‘blue screen of death’
  • 36% of Chinese Undergraduates Choose Engineering, Compared To 5% in US and UK in 2022
  • Google Convinces OpenAI to Use TPU Chips in Win Against Nvidia
  • Meta seeks $29bn from private credit giants to fund AI data centres (FT)
  • Boeing Co. predicted airlines will need 43,600 new aircraft over the next 20 years
  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): Enhancing Software Transparency and Security
  • Introducing the Anthropic Economic Futures Program
  • YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS
  • Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 (WEF)
  • The Future of Global Fintech (WEF)
  • Moving AI compute to phones massively reduces power use, study finds
  • The five seismic shifts that will reshape communications
  • 7 People Now Have Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Implant

Weekly#642

  • Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage
  • Meta’s Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
  • Breaking down the infinite workday
  • Expert Generalists
  • ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
  • Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
  • Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
  • Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City
  • Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI
  • NFC Release 15: The what, why and how
  • “…DNSFilter has found that one in every 644 clicks on unsubscribe links that say “click here to unsubscribe” leads users to potentially malicious websites…”

Weekly#641

  • ..energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours…
  • …Those high-agency product managers that have understood that they are responsible for value and viability, and all that entails, are ideally suited for the AI-powered future…
  • Barbie-maker Mattel teams up with OpenAI, eyes first AI-powered product this year
  • Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six “pillars” in order to simplify its structure
  • Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta as part of $14.3 billion deal
  • Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
  • Google’s Gemini AI will summarize PDFs for you when you open them
  • Google is killing Android Instant Apps, but you probably won’t miss them
  • Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New ‘Superintelligence’ AI Team at Meta
  • Meta inks a new geothermal energy deal to support AI…
  • Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews

Weekly#640

  • “…AI startups revolutionize coding industry, leading to sky-high valuations…They’re also at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, which all announced new code-gen products in May, and Anthropic is also working on one as well, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters…”
  • Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models
  • How AI models may forecast the world’s next wildfires
  • Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
  • Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
  • Will AI wipe out the first rung of the career ladder?
  • More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?
  • Elon Musk projects SpaceX revenue of about $15.5 billion in 2025
  • Bristol Myers agrees up to $11.1 billion deal with BioNTech
  • Agentic AI Systems: Smarter Automation With LangChain and LangGraph
  • “…Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday inked a 20-year deal with power giant Constellation Energy to keep a large Illinois nuclear plant running until mid-century…”
  • Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI (WSJ)
  • Polymarket | Which company has best AI model end of 2025?
  • Meta Seeks Hollywood Deals for New Virtual-Reality Headset (WSJ)
  • Vibe coding’ is the new DIY (FT)

Weekly#639

  • Ben Evans – AI eats the world
  • Sequoia AI Ascent 2025
  • Simon Sinek about AI
  • Nvidia beats on earnings and revenue as data center sales jump 73%
  • Amazon taps Xbox co-founder to lead new team developing ‘breakthrough’ consumer products
  • Grammarly secures $1 billion from General Catalyst to build AI productivity platform
  • Meta and Anduril Industries are collaborating to develop high-tech VR/AR headsets for the U.S. Army called EagleEye.
  • DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU
  • Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users
  • Automated architecture diagrams
  • Practical AI resources on Prompt Engineering, Agents, and RAG
  • Hugging Face introduces two open-source robot designs
  • AI May Consume Half of Data Centre Power by End of 2025
  • OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a ‘super assistant’ for every part of your life
  • Mary Meeker 2025
  • “…AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office…”

Weekly#638

  • What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive (WSJ)
  • AI Can’t Compete With Humans When It Comes to Reading the Room…People pick up on physical cues that artificial intelligence models miss (WSJ)
  • Apple Plans Glasses for 2026 as Part of AI Push, Nixes Watch With Camera
  • Microsoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and more
  • The Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AI
  • 100 things announced at I/O, Google I/O 2025 recap
  • Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
  • America’s Leading Alien Hunters Depend on AI to Speed Their Search
  • Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you
  • Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad updates with new features begin rolling out to Windows Insiders
  • Wisk Aero and NASA sign five-year partnership to advance sustainable autonomous flights