Taylor Swift ranked as the top most-streamed artist globally in 2024
on Spotify, generating more than 26.6 billion streams on the platform
this
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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

SPOTIFY WRAPPED 2024: TAYLOR SWIFT IS MOST-STREAMED ARTIST, WOMEN
DOMINATE GLOBAL TOP 10 ALBUMS CHART (8 MINUTE READ) [5]

Taylor Swift ranked as the top most-streamed artist globally in 2024
on Spotify, generating more than 26.6 billion streams on the platform
this year. Women landed the top eight of the 20 most-stream albums
worldwide on Spotify. Spotify's top podcasts of the year include The
Joe Rogan Experience and Alex Cooper's 'Call Her Daddy'. Sarah J.
Maas' 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was the most streamed audiobook
this year.

AMAZON ROLLS OUT BUY WITH AWS BUTTON TO LET SOFTWARE VENDORS MORE
EASILY SELL TO ITS CLOUD CUSTOMERS (4 MINUTE READ) [6]

Amazon Web Services has introduced a Buy with AWS button designed to
make it easier for buyers to make purchases of third-party cloud
software using their AWS credentials. The button was created to
increase customer and partner loyalty and win rates. Software
companies wanting to use the button must sell their products through
the AWS Marketplace. It is free for software companies to embed.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

GOOGLE'S DEEPMIND TACKLES WEATHER FORECASTING, WITH GREAT PERFORMANCE
(5 MINUTE READ) [7]

Google DeepMind claims that its GenCast system outperforms
traditional computing methods of weather forecasting out to at least a
week and often beyond. GenCast merges some computational approaches
used by atmospheric scientists with a diffusion model, resulting in a
system that maintains high resolution while cutting the computational
costs significantly. It has relatively low computational requirements,
so individual academic research teams will likely be able to
experiment with it.

GPS-ALTERNATIVE TECH SWAPS SATELLITES FOR EARTH FINGERPRINTS (3
MINUTE READ) [8]

Australian firm Advanced Navigation and European missile manufacturer
MBDA are developing a new navigation system for planes to replace GPS
in situations where the system fails, such as when signals are
intentionally jammed by enemy forces. Their system uses a
downward-facing neuromorphic camera to read the terrain's
'fingerprint'. This data is cross-referenced against an existing
database of fingerprints, allowing the aircraft to ascertain its exact geographical location. The system is reportedly simple enough that it
doesn't use any AI. The companies have planned a real-world
demonstration of its system later this year in Australia followed by a commercial rollout of the technology.

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A FIRST LOOK AT S3 (ICEBERG) TABLES (10 MINUTE READ) [10]

AWS' S3 Tables brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. This
post takes a look at the new offering, which is an exciting
development for the data analytics ecosystem. S3 has now launched
three major features in 12 months, suggesting that something material
has shifted in S3's development culture. The fact that AWS chose to
call the new feature 'S3 Tables' and not 'S3 Iceberg' could mean that
the company is open to supporting other table formats in the future.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW AMAZON NOVA LLMS (VIA A NEW LLM-BEDROCK
PLUGIN) (13 MINUTE READ) [11]

Amazon's new large language models are mainly competitive with the
Google Gemini family. They are extremely inexpensive and can handle
quite large contexts. The two larger models can handle images, video,
and PDFs. This article takes a look at the Amazon Nova family of
models, specifically its pricing and capabilities, how to access the
models from the terminal, and how to use multi-modal prompting with
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MISCELLANEOUS

HOW TO GROW PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS (20 MINUTE READ) [12]

This post introduces The Journey to Synergy Collaboration Model, a
framework for measuring professional relationships and where one
stands in those relationships. The framework outlines seven states,
moving from a competitive, zero-sum mindset to one of shared identity.
The post also discusses practical ways to move relationships forward.
Working in isolation creates significant limitations - we are at our
best when we are collaborating well with others.

SAM ALTMAN DOWNPLAYS THE DANGERS OF A.I. AND MUSK (3 MINUTE READ)
[13]

Sam Altman says that AI technology will be able to mirror human
capability sooner than most people realize, but that this would matter
much less than many have predicted. He recently claimed that the
company would be able to achieve artificial general intelligence in
the next few years at a conference in New York City. He has downplayed
the rising tensions between him and Elon Musk, especially concerning
due to Musk's increasingly close relationship with President-elect
Trump, saying that it would be profoundly un-American to use political
power to hurt competitors and advantage Musk's own businesses.

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The most visited page on Wikipedia, with over 44 million views, was
the page containing a list of deaths in 2024.

GRIFTERS, BELIEVERS, GRINDERS, AND COASTERS (6 MINUTE READ) [17]

Most programmer arguments stem from a cultural clash between
different kinds of engineers: believers vs grifters, or coasters vs
grinders.

MUSK'S XAI PLANS MASSIVE EXPANSION OF AI SUPERCOMPUTER IN MEMPHIS (1
MINUTE READ) [18]

Nvidia, Dell, and Super Micro will establish operations in Memphis as
part of the expansion.

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OpenAI will host a livestream with a launch or demo every day for 12
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