Tech Updates

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age: Leveraging Experience for Better Results https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-developers-can-achieve-great-results-with-ai-coding-agents

Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn https://mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com/p/your-startup-doesnt-need-to-be-a

The Machine Stops — Steph Ango https://stephango.com/the-machine-stops

I'd rather read the prompt https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt

The Israeli company Ludeo may change the entire video industry. Elon Musk's xAI accuses an employee of planting political content in the Grok chatbot. The Israeli unicorn Cyera is raising funds at a valuation of $6 billion. China launched the first supercomputer to operate in space. Palo Alto Networks conducted a ransomware attack in just 25 minutes using AI agents. Investors are flocking to Cyera...

KDDI, a Japanese telecommunications giant, will implement DriveNets software for hundreds of millions of dollars. Classic has raised $110 million to build "the Microsoft of quantum computing." The AI company Perplexity is on track to raise $500 million at a $14 billion valuation. QIAGEN, a Dutch company, is acquiring the Israeli company Genoox for $80 million. Orca Security is acquiring the startu...

The man behind Claude predicts that AI will help us understand animal language. Bria, a startup, raised $40 million to create protected visual content. Unframe, founded by Noname alumni, is revealed with a $30 million funding round. A WhatsApp vulnerability generated tens of millions of dollars for NSO. OpenAI is paying millions for ChatGPT users' "thank yous." A person faked agreements with large...

Google I/O 2025: live updates from the keynote | The Vergehttps://www.theverge.com/google/670250/google-io-news-announcements-gemini-ai-android-xr

Duolingo's CEO is attempting to retract previous statements about prioritizing AI, but is not succeeding. A blog post discusses using GitHub issues for taking notes. A dispatch from the "Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad" is shared. Access is denied to multiple articles on calcalist.co.il. An article on Text Incubation discusses AI code as being legacy code from its inception. AWS created a security...

TabNine, an AI code completion system, is laying off 15 employees. A security researcher warns that Waze exposes critical information to hostile entities. Elon Musk's AI company launched Grok 3, claiming it has 10 times more computing power than the previous model. The Chinese AI industry is unfazed by Trump, with Huawei doubling production and Jack Ma making a comeback. Nustic raised $11 million,...

Luke Kanies compares AI to a substandard consultant. https://lukekanies.com/writing/ai-is-like-a-crappy-consultant

Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompthttps://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-prompt

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=learn

The titles discuss various topics including the realism of an AI 2027 scenario, the next abstraction, infinite tool use, thoughts on thinking, finding things in the absence of curation (mentioned in two blog posts from bearblog), the scaling limitations of LLM function calls and the effectiveness of code orchestration, and OpenAI's tactics related to the Ghibli meme. https://garymarcus.substack.co...

Everything we learned from Google I/O 2025: AI, AI, and more AI https://mashable.com/article/google-io-2025-everything-you-need-to-know

Microsoft Build 2025: News and Announcements from the Developer Conference https://www.theverge.com/news/669382/microsoft-build-2025-news-ai-agents

Chicago Sun-Times Summer Reading List is Full of Fake Books, People are Self-Hosting, Windows 11 Aims to Secure the World in the Post-Quantum Era, Google Focuses on AI Mode in Search, Researchers Cause GitLab AI Developer Assistant to Turn Safe Code Malicious, and Signal Blocks Windows Recall. Calcalist: OpenAI Seeks Johnny Ive's Startup and 394,000 Windows Computers Infected with Luma Stealer Mal...

Google Aims to Avoid Past Mistakes as It Brings Gemini to Wearable Devices. Authorities Carry Out Global Takedown of Infostealer Used by Cybercriminals. Anthropic Launches the New Generation of its AI Model, Claude 4, Described as the World's Best Coding Model. Notepad.exe Undergoes a Significant Change, From a State of Minimal Maintenance to Automatic Writing for the User. Behind the Scenes of th...

Cyber Giant Fortinet Acquires Israeli Suridata. Rhino FCP Company Raised Money to Develop Data Privacy Technology. Google Transitions to Using Chatbots Instead of the Traditional Search Engine. Updates to Valve's SteamOS, Gemini Integration in Google Home, Review of the Bambu Lab A1 3D Printer, Discussion on the Impact of AI on Engineers, Claim That AI Does Not Affect Jobs or Salaries, and Critici...