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OPENAI TEAMS UP WITH SOFTBANK AND ORACLE ON $500B DATA CENTER PROJECT

OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, along with others, have teamed up to build multiple data centers for AI in the US. The joint venture, called The Stargate Project, will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and secure American leadership in AI. It will begin with a large data center project in Texas before eventually expanding to other states. The companies expect to pour up to $500 billion into the venture over the next four years. OpenAI is reportedly aggressively building out a team of chip designers and engineers to create an AI chip for running models - it could arrive in data centers as soon as 2026.

EVOLVING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH THE MESSAGING SYSTEM MODEL IN DROPBOX

Dropbox's asynchronous platform initially struggled with scalability and developer productivity. To address these issues, its team implemented a Messaging System Model (MSM), inspired by the OSI model, which organizes the platform into five layers: frontend, scheduler, flow control, delivery, and execution. This layered approach simplified the asynchronous interface for Dropbox, making it better to use.

BITBUCKET SERVICES “HARD DOWN” DUE TO MAJOR WORLDWIDE OUTAGE

Atlassian reported a major outage affecting Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud customers. Impacted services included the website, API, git via HTTPS and SSH, Webhooks, source downloads, pipelines, git LFS, email delivery, purchasing and licensing, and signup. Bitbucket has managed to restore services and disclosed that the issue was due to saturated database connections. A full postmortem will be published.

DEEPMIND'S HASSABIS SEES AI-DESIGNED DRUG TRIALS THIS YEAR

Isomorphic Labs' Nobel Prize-winning chief executive officer says that the company will hopefully have some AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of the year. It is working on shortening the drug discovery process from a decade or more to just weeks or months. The company, created in 2021 to commercialize Google DeepMind's AlphaFold AI for drug discovery, announced strategic research collaboration agreements with Eli Lilly & Co. and Novartis AG last year. AlphaFold can model a range of molecular structures and predict how they interact with each other.

417-MEGAPIXEL ANDROMEDA GALAXY PANORAMA TOOK OVER A DECADE TO MAKE

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy so far and created a 417-megapixel panorama. The massive 42,208 by 9,870-pixel panorama took over a decade to create and includes more than 600 photos. It is the largest photo mosaic ever created using Hubble Space Telescope observations. The photo shows 200 million stars, a fraction of the estimated one trillion stars in the system. It will help scientists learn more about Andromeda's history. A video showing highlights from the mosaic is available in the article.

ARE LLMS MAKING STACKOVERFLOW IRRELEVANT?

The volume of questions asked on StackOverflow fell quickly after ChatGPT's release in November 2022. The drop continues into 2025 at an alarming speed. The site has not seen so few questions asked monthly since 2009. Its decline actually started before ChatGPT - the release of the chatbot merely sped up the decline. StackOverflow's lack of innovation may have resulted in the initial drop in questions. The drop in questions indicates that trouble is ahead.

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