Subj : Gemini expands ¨, xAI burns $1B/month ¨, Redis 8 ¨¨ To : All From : TLDR Date : Wed Jun 18 2025 10:44:48 ---Wgat5jv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Google has expanded its Gemini AI model family. 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But unlocking their full potential requires more than tech alo= ne =E2=80=94 it demands strategic implementation that fuses traditional a= nalytics and machine learning with agentic capabilities [4], along with e= nterprise-wide deployment and robust governance. With expert insight= s and independent research, unlock the blueprint [4] to agentic AI. Get i= nsights from Economist Impact to supercharge growth and innovation with a= gentic AI in this report [4], courtesy of Dataiku. =F0=9F=93=B1=20 = BIG TECH & STARTUPS GOOGLE'S GEMINI AI FAMILY UPDATED WITH STABLE = 2.5 PRO, SUPER-EFFICIENT 2.5 FLASH-LITE (3 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Google= has expanded its Gemini AI model family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has left preview= and Gemini 2.5 Pro Flash-Lite is now in preview. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite c= an run high-volume AI workloads without incurring significant costs. Goog= le Flash and Flash-Lite are coming to search - custom versions of these m= odels are now active in AI overviews and AI Mode. The Flash-Lite preview = is available in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI for developers.=20 MUS= K'S XAI BURNS THROUGH $1 BILLION A MONTH AS COSTS PILE UP (5 MINUTE READ)= [6]=20 xAI is trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity, with pl= ans to spend more than half of it in just the next three months. The star= tup is expected to burn through about $13 billion over the course of 2025= .. Its prolific fundraising efforts are just barely keeping pace with ex= penses. The losses are due in part to the huge costs that all AI companie= s face - building server farms and buying the specialized computer chips = needed to train advanced AI models.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTU= RISTIC TECHNOLOGY HONDA UNEXPECTEDLY ENTERS THE SPACE RACE WITH FIRST= SUCCESSFUL ROCKET LAUNCH (3 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 Honda recently launc= hed and landed a prototype reusable rocket. The company plans to achieve = suborbital space flight by 2029. The 20.6-foot experimental reusable laun= ch vehicle reached an altitude of 889 feet at a test facility in northern= Japan. Honda has yet to make a decision regarding the commercialization = of its rocket technologies. The launch and landing's success sets an opti= mistic tone for the company's space program.=20 MICROBE WITH BIZARREL= Y TINY GENOME MAY BE EVOLVING INTO A VIRUS (4 MINUTE READ) [8]=20 A n= ewly discovered microbe known as Sukunaarchaeum isn't a virus, but it see= mingly has just one purpose: to make more of itself. It appears to be a p= arasite that provides nothing to its hosts. Most of its genes are focused= on replicating its own genome and it steals everything it needs from its= host. The microbe's bizarre virus-like way of living challenges the boun= daries between cellular life and viruses.=20 =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMM= ING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE REDIS 8.0 (4 MINUTE READ) [9]=20 Redis= 8.0 introduces powerful new capabilities and over 30 performance improve= ments. The Redis Community Edition has been renamed to Redis Open Source = - this version offers the full power of Redis. This post looks at the new= features, improvements, and changes with the update. There are some brea= king changes regarding ACL behavior and the Redis Query Engine.=20 DO= UBLE-ENTRY LEDGERS: THE MISSING PRIMITIVE IN MODERN SOFTWARE (8 MINUTE RE= AD) [10]=20 Double-entry ledger modeling is a better fit for a lot of s= ystems compared to the ad-hoc ledger-ish things they currently use. A d= ouble-entry ledger records the current amount or balance of a thing, a hi= storical record of how the amount got to that amount, and where that amou= nt came from at each step. Apps with ledger models built-in can have many= things built on top of them without a lot of extra work or complexity. 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Google's Gemini AI family u= pdated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite (3 minute read)<= /strong>

Google has expanded its Gemini AI model= family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has left preview and Gemini 2.5 Pro Flash-Lite is n= ow in preview. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite can run high-volume AI workloads witho= ut incurring significant costs. Google Flash and Flash-Lite are coming to s= earch - custom versions of these models are now active in AI overviews and = AI Mode. The Flash-Lite preview is available in Google AI Studio and Vertex= AI for developers.
Musk's xAI Burns Through $1= Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up (5 minute read)

xAI is trying to raise $9.3 billion in = debt and equity, with plans to spend more than half of it in just the next = three months. The startup is expected to burn through about $13 billion ove= r the course of 2025. Its prolific fundraising efforts are just barely keep= ing pace with expenses. The losses are due in part to the huge costs that a= ll AI companies face - building server farms and buying the specialized com= puter chips needed to train advanced AI models.
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Honda Unexpectedly Enters t= he Space Race With First Successful Rocket Launch (3 minute read)

Honda recently launched and landed a pr= ototype reusable rocket. The company plans to achieve suborbital space flig= ht by 2029. The 20.6-foot experimental reusable launch vehicle reached an a= ltitude of 889 feet at a test facility in northern Japan. Honda has yet to = make a decision regarding the commercialization of its rocket technologies.= The launch and landing's success sets an optimistic tone for the company's= space program.
Microbe with bizarrely tiny= genome may be evolving into a virus (4 minute read)

A newly discovered microbe known as Suk= unaarchaeum isn't a virus, but it seemingly has just one purpose: to make m= ore of itself. It appears to be a parasite that provides nothing to its hos= ts. Most of its genes are focused on replicating its own genome and it stea= ls everything it needs from its host. The microbe's bizarre virus-like way = of living challenges the boundaries between cellular life and viruses.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

Redis 8.0 (4 minute read)

Redis 8.0 introduces powerful new capab= ilities and over 30 performance improvements. The Redis Community Edition h= as been renamed to Redis Open Source - this version offers the full power o= f Redis. This post looks at the new features, improvements, and changes wit= h the update. There are some breaking changes regarding ACL behavior and th= e Redis Query Engine.
Double-Entry Ledgers: The M= issing Primitive in Modern Software (8 minute read)

Double-entry ledger modeling is a bette= r fit for a lot of systems compared to the ad-hoc ledger-ish things they cu= rrently use. A double-entry ledger records the current amount or balance of= a thing, a historical record of how the amount got to that amount, and whe= re that amount came from at each step. Apps with ledger models built-in can= have many things built on top of them without a lot of extra work or compl= exity. While there is an initial cost to introducing a ledger, that value i= s recouped over time.
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Sam Altman says Meta tried = and failed to poach OpenAI's talent with $100M offers (4 minute read)

Meta seems to be on a hiring spree late= ly to staff up its new superintelligence team. It has reportedly offered em= ployees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages worth upwards= of $100 million. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that those efforts have largel= y been unsuccessful. Altman believes that Meta's focus on high compensation= rather than a mission of delivering AGI would likely not create a great cu= lture.
Amazon CEO says AI agents w= ill soon reduce company's corporate workforce (3 minute read)

Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy issued a memo t= o employees on Tuesday saying that he expects the company to reduce its cor= porate workforce in the next few years as it leans more heavily on generati= ve AI tools to help fulfill workplace duties. Generative AI and agents are = expected to change the way the company does its work. Amazon will need fewe= r people doing the same jobs done today, and more people doing other types = of jobs. The hard pivot into AI has received negative feedback from some wh= ite-collar employees at the company.
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What Google Translate Can T= ell Us About Vibecoding (6 minute read)

Google Translate was talked about as th= e end of translation and interpretation as professions, but the number of a= vailable job opportunities for translators and interpreters has actually be= en increasing.
Programming Language Design= in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity? (10 minute read)

The opportunity cost for using niche la= nguages is now substantially increasing, which means language designers wil= l be held to a higher standard to justify the use of their domain-specific = languages.
Facebook announces that all= videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels (2 minute read)

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