Morning Daily - 2025-06-11

Morning Daily 2025-06-11

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

True innovation happens when we take bold bets on hard, important problems not just by replicating existing breakthroughs like ChatGPT. read more...

CEO Sundar Pichai reveals Google's 'Most Important Metric' and how company is tracking it

Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that AI has boosted software engineering productivity by 10%, a metric the company actively tracks. Google measures this by assessing the increase in engineering capacity, in hours per week, gained through AI tools. read more...

Meta to pay nearly $15 billion for scale AI stake: Report

Meta Platforms reportedly agreed to acquire a 49% stake in AI startup Scale AI for $14.8 billion. This move aims to boost Meta's AI efforts, placing Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in a top position to lead a new "superintelligence" lab. Scale AI, valued at $13.8 billion in 2024, provides crucial labeled... read more...

Cognizant CEO says AI is not taking away jobs from engineering graduates

Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar challenges predictions of AI decimating entry-level jobs, asserting it will create more opportunities for recent graduates. He argues AI levels the playing field, boosting productivity for junior developers and increasing the need for fresh talent to manage expanded workload... read more...

Why deep domain knowledge can make your career AI-proof

As AI evolves rapidly, domain expertise is becoming increasingly valuable. Industry leaders emphasize the importance of combining AI tools with deep, practical understanding of specific fields. Experts advise technologists to cultivate curiosity, collaboration, and AI literacy to thrive in the evolv... read more...

Apple's Liquid Glass panned amid questions lack of major AI announcements

What was touted to be a marvel in software aesthetics quickly spiralled into a meme fest on social media. A user on microblogging platform X termed it iOS for toddlers, while another asked whether the new UI was designed on Microsoft Paint. The event itself generated mixed reactions owin... read more...

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