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This Week I Learned -  *  GitHub Copilot app for Beginners - 7 Chapter course by Dan Wahlin * An analysis of 5 lakh peer-reviewed papers in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and computer science published in 2023-26 has revealed 1,135 fake references in 619 papers. These fictional citations often stem from the unchecked use of AI tools or misconduct. * Felony Bench monitors the rogue behavior of AI agents. It counts unique instances where AI agents inadvertently compromise or affect third-party entities.  * Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Uber are restricting AI access for employees. * Dario Amodei is an atheist who believes in utilitarianism (people should maximize happiness for the most living beings). He was influenced by Ray Kurzweil’s idea that advanced technologies would let humans exist beyond natural limits, a belief known as transhumanism.  He was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2014, underwent chemotherapy and made a full recovery. Prior to...

This Week I Learned -  * Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code, has called giving Claude a way to verify its work probably the most important thing for getting good results.  * “No member of the team has a full mental model of Claude Code in their head, nor do we think anyone needs to. Rather, when anyone wants to learn about a piece of the codebase, they ask Claude to generate an explainer about that exact slice. It only takes a few minutes and the explainer is always up to date.” -  Addy Osmani * Claude Cowork is now just Claude.  * Oracle will offer Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) via its cloud infrastructure platform, marking the first time specialised AI accelerators will be available on a hyperscale cloud platform outside of Google’s ecosystem. TPUs are processors designed by Google to accelerate machine-learning workloads. They offer an alternative to graphics processing units.  * AI Spin-off - Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, ...

Stats from the internet about AI compiled as I come across them - Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are projected to spend $700 billion on A.I. infrastructure in 2026.  Amount of debt taken on by hyperscalers, chipmakers, neoclouds and other companies providing data centers and electricity for the A.I. build out: at least $3 trillion. Share of projected S&P 500 earnings gains for this year driven directly by tech companies spending heavily on A.I.: two-thirds Share of the world’s electricity that data centers currently consume: 1.5 percent Anthropic is the biggest company ever to debut on the stock market. Its potential valuation in the initial public offering is $2 trillion or two thousand billion dollars. In 2026, Anthropic earned $16.3 billion and lost $80.7 billion.  As of September 30, 2026, more than 1,900 Anthropic customers had each spent at least $1 million over the past year. Over 90% of Anthropic’s code is written by Claude Code - Krishna Rao (CFO) 75% of ...