2024: Year in Review and Looking Forward

2024 was the year in which we saw the capabilities of Large Langauge Models (LLMs) proliferate and mature in ways that no one has expected. We saw some historical security news and events happen as we keep learning how to keep systems secure when more of the world comes online. In here, I cover some of my favorite articles, podcasts, and books, as well as some of my (fun!) predictions for 2025.

News

CrowdStrike outage explained: What caused it and what’s next

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Hello GPT-4o

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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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The Release of NotebookLM by Google

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Articles

By Default, Capital Will Matter More After AGI

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The Architecture of Open Source Applications

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A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks

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A.I. Safety for Fleshy Humans

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Why Are We So Afraid of Code as a Commodity

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From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code

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How the Human Brain Contends with 0

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Data engineering at Meta: High-Level Overview of the internal tech stack

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Podcasts and Talks

Acquired: Benchmark Part I

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Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks: What a Decade

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Jensen Huang: Founder and CEO of Nvidia (Stanford GSB)

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Tools