- Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
- Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are reportedly interested in buying Warner Bros
- OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
- Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
- Amazon’s revamped Luna streaming service is available now
- VW production continuing for now but chip uncertainty high, source says
- Claude can now compartmentalize as part of a major memory upgrade
- AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race
- DeepSeek AI Unveils DeepSeek-OCR: Vision-Based Context Compression Redefines Long-Text Processing
- Anthropic’s latest Claude model can work for 30 hours on its own
- Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
- ChatGPT Atlas
- Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines
- Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day
- Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
- SpaceX lofts 10,000th Starlink satellite to orbit
Weekly#659
- State of AI Report 2025
- Pixnapping: Side-Channel Vulnerability Allows Android Apps to Capture Sensitive Screen Data
- Europe Is Losing the Chips Race
- Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
- OpenAI Wants City-Sized AI Supercomputers. First It Needs Custom Chips. (WSJ)
- Anthropic connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive
- Introducing Agent Skills…repo link…and more
- Steam just broke its concurrent user record with 41.6 million gamers
- The American Job Quality Study
- Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans…AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.
- AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
- “…By co-developing hardware with Broadcom, OpenAI expects to spend 20% to 30% less on these chips than it does with Nvidia…”
- Microsoft will test a Copilot AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11
- This Wall Street bank has over 100 “digital employees“
- AI’s promise is sky-high — and so is the pressure to deliver
- Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) said Thursday it’s working with Google’s DeepMind division to fine tune
- Infusing AI into Your Java Applications
- Sal Khan will become the public face of the TED conference
- Apple Readies Its First Ever Touch-Screen MacBook
- Attention Is the New Big-O
- “…Between 2014 and 2024, the number of industrial robots deployed in the country (China) rocketed from 189,000 to more than two million…The overall number of robots added in China last year was 295,000, compared to 27,000 in Germany, 34,000 in the US and just 2,500 in the UK.”
- Exclusive: Anthropic aims to nearly triple annualized revenue in 2026
7 LLM generation parameters, explained visually: pic.twitter.com/NkPkwCmnMS
— Akshay 🚀 (@akshay_pachaar) October 11, 2025
Good Morning America ran a feature yesterday on the rising costs of electricity to homes thanks to AI data centers. What if people turn on AI because of how much it increases their power bill? pic.twitter.com/9kEKb9UPNQ
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) October 17, 2025
Weekly#658
- Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward
- NBA games will be streamed live in Apple Immersive
- South Korea raises cyber threat level after huge data centre fire
- AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs. Previously, OpenAI and NVIDIA announced strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems in September
- AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
- Major banks explore issuing stablecoin pegged to G7 currencies
- Reliable Robotics is among startups hoping to revolutionize air travel by doing away with the need for human pilots on cargo, military and even passenger aircraft
- Amazon Pharmacy to launch electronic kiosks for prescriptions at One Medical locations,
- Anthropic and IBM announce strategic partnership
- Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino
- “…U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman. Excluding these technology-related categories, Furman calculated in a Sept. 27 post on X.com GDP growth would have been just 0.1% on an annualized basis…”
- DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs
- The 5 levels of AI agent autonomy
To further @Benioff's point. Companies will increasingly look to their application vendor to integrate AI into the application vendors service/workflow (domain specific) which they already pay.
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) October 10, 2025
Stat below via MS 3Q25 CIO Survey. https://t.co/Qfn0dPhZLm pic.twitter.com/cyZuv9vPNh
Weekly#657
- “…The key is enabling AI to learn from their environments and faithfully represent an abstract version of them in their “heads,” the way humans and animals do. To do it, developers need to train AIs by using simulations of the world…The world-model approach—which somewhat confusingly refers to both the simulated training environment and the abstract representation…”
- Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why
- Japan is running out of its favorite beer after ransomware attack
- Announcing Tinker
- Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses
- Risk of AI bioweapons laid bare by flaw in security software
- The AI Application Spending Report: Where Startup Dollars Really Go
- Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure
- Perplexity Launches Search API to Power Next-Gen AI Applications
- MCP Developers Summit
- Google cuts more than 100 design-related roles in cloud unit
- LinkedIn’s CEO says these 4 qualities will matter more than fancy degrees in the future workplace
8 RAG architectures visualized👌 pic.twitter.com/S7GZqid4TR
— Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam) October 3, 2025
Weekly#656
- One year of agentic AI: Six lessons from the people doing the work
- Kubernetes 1.34 Released with KYAML, Traffic Routing Controls, and Improved Observability
- Google Introduces VaultGemma: An Experimental Differentially Private LLM
- How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26
- HSBC has successfully deployed quantum computing technology to optimize bond trading
- Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed
- European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance
- Spotify Announces New AI Safeguards, Says It’s Removed 75 Million ‘Spammy’ Tracks
- Anthropic to triple international workforce in global AI push
- Apple Builds a ChatGPT-Like App to Help Test the Revamped Siri
- Introducing ChatGPT Pulse
- Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaks at 22 Tbps and 10 Bpps
- Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users
- Nasa plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February 2026
- Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction
- “…AI companies will need $2 trillion in combined annual revenue to fund computing power by 2030, but their revenue is likely to fall $800 billion short, according to Bain & Co…”
Weekly#655
- OpenAI might be developing a smart speaker, glasses, voice recorder, and a pin
- Meta Ray-Ban Display and everything else unveiled at Meta Connect 2025
- Google Injects Gemini Into Chrome as AI Browsers Go Mainstream
- New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes
- Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models
- China’s DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
- Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents
- Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform
- Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B
- Nvidia buys $5B stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration
- AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) Method Definition
- IDE Comparison With Cursor, Windsurf, and Copilot (on GPT-5)
- How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
- AI can support 80% of corporate affairs tasks, new BCG report says, PDF
Weekly#654
- OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership
- Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking’s black hole theorem
- Gmail will now filter your purchases into a new tab
- VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds
- Albania appoints AI bot
- AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts
- Everything Apple revealed at the iPhone 17 launch event
- We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI
- ‘China Inside’: How Chinese EV tech is reshaping global auto design…develop global models on Chinese EV platforms
- Oracle Shares Skyrocket as Software Giant Scores Massive AI Deals…Oracle has been one of the biggest benefactors of the artificial intelligence boom thanks to its cloud infrastructure business and its access to Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, which are both needed to run large workloads
- Apple delays release of iPhone Air in China due to pending approval of eSIM
- Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic
- API design
- Amazon drivers could be wearing AR glasses with a built-in display next year
- Vercel Introduces AI Gateway for Multi-Model Integration
API Gateway 101 pic.twitter.com/yCvsrtRX5n
— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) September 12, 2025
Weekly#653
- Everything Apple Plans to Show at Sept. 9 ‘Awe Dropping’ iPhone 17 Event
- OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
- xAI Releases Grok Code Fast 1, a New Model for Agentic Coding
- Amazon’s Project Kuiper strikes its first satellite internet deal with an airline
- Nvidia dominates GPU shipments with 94% share
- Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978
- Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
- Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million
- EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has released Apertus, Switzerland’s first large-scale open, multilingual language model
- Chrome market share 70%
- large behavior model (LBM)
- framework for developing safe and trustworthy agents
Weekly#652
- Alibaba develops new AI chip
- DeepSeek Opts for Huawei Chips to Train Some models…but will still use Nvidia chips for largest models
- Mark Zuckerberg appoints Shengjia Zhao, who co-created OpenAI’s ChatGPT, as chief scientist of Meta’s AI Superintelligence Lab
- The future of AI hardware isn’t one device — it’s an entire ecosystem
- The Future of Higher Education
- Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
- Framework is now selling the first gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU
- Making AI Agents Work for You (and Your Team)
- Reading for pleasure is going out of style
- Architecting Multi-Agent AI Systems in Java with Quarkus and Langchain4j
- Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down
- The art and science of context engineering for AI code reviews
Weekly#651
- America Should Rent, Not Sell, AI Chips to China
- Apple Explores Using Google Gemini AI to Power Revamped Siri
- Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder
- The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
- Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City
- “…Meta announced internally that it is splitting its A.I. division — which is known as Meta Superintelligence Labs — into four groups…”
- Claude Sonnet 4 Expands to 1 Million Token Context Window
- Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google
- “…estimate the median Gemini Apps text prompt uses 0.24 watt-hours (Wh) of energy…”
- Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading