What I'm Reading This Week (2025/02.16-02.22)

Table of Contents

• Trends
• What I Am Reading
  • 0. Help you play with AI
  • 1. Google Career Dreamer
  • 2. Talk to a Live Representative
  • 3. Ask for Me
  • 4. Google Learn About
  • 5. NotebookLM
  • 6. Google Illuminate
  • 7. Google Daily Listen

Trends

Bybit was hacked, and thanks to the second-layer mortgage and centralized ETH L2, those wrapped ETHs are hard to clean up.

• ETH 401,347
• stETH 90,376: Staking ETH on Lido, including initial deposit and staking rewards. stETH allows users to stake ETH and participate in DeFi applications without meeting the 32 ETH minimum staking threshold.
• mETH 8,000 Flowing Staking ETH (mETH): A token representing the right to stake ETH, allowing users to stake ETH and participate in DeFi applications and trading. mETH is the core product of the mETH Protocol, the liquidity staking protocol under Mantle.
• cmETH 15,000 Mantle Re-Staking ETH (cmETH): A token obtained by re-staking mETH, allowing users to maintain staking yields while participating in more extensive DeFi activities. cmETH provides high composability and diversified yield opportunities in the Mantle ecosystem. Mantle is a Layer 2 (L2) expansion solution compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and is incubated by BitDAO also known as ByBit , aiming to provide a high-performance, low-cost, and user-friendly platform for the Ethereum ecosystem.

The USDT credit card project Infini was hacked by an insider engineer, stealing 50 million U assets, and the insider has been controlled.

What I Am Reading

I’m learning UI design, and these are some resources I’ll be using.

Error images: EDITOR.ISF.VIDEO

Sketch lines: JAVIER.XYZ/PINTR

Raster effects and dynamic relief effects: TOOOOOOLS.APP

Pixel fonts (support Chinese): TYPEDITHER.VERCELAPP

3D dynamic text (not support Chinese): SPACETYPEGENERATOR.COM

0. Help you play with AI

• AI simulates chat with users to find the best response.
• Like a chess engine, AI generates an answer after weighing all possible responses, and users can explore all possible responses.
• AI is very strange.

1. Google Career Dreamer

• AI helps users plan their careers, generating a career identity statement based on their experience and skills.
• Currently available only in the United States as a part of the Grow with Google experiment.

2. Talk to a Live Representative

• AI helps users call customer service (such as airlines), connects users to a human customer service representative, and then calls the user back, so users don’t have to wait online.
• No specific official link, may be provided by third-party companies.

3. Ask for Me

• If users need a life service (such as nail repair or car repair), but need to compare multiple stores, AI can help users call multiple stores and organize the information received from the stores.
• No specific official link, may be provided by third-party companies.

4. Google Learn About

• Learning tool, using AI to help users systematically learn a field. AI will start with a big question, help users list the knowledge framework of the field, systematically organize online resources to help users learn, and generate a real-time review card.
• No specific official link, may be a part of other Google services.

5. NotebookLM

• An AI tool that can upload any knowledge (files, web pages, YouTube links, etc.) and ask questions, and AI can answer based on the file content.
• The most surprising is the Audio Overview (AI podcast), two hosts will help users understand the content in a dialogue.

6. Google Illuminate

• The AI podcast feature of NotebookLM is extracted and users can upload academic papers, convert them to AI podcasts, and choose the host voice and style.
• Currently only available as a experimental preview.

7. Google Daily Listen

• Every day, AI will generate a podcast based on users’ search keywords on Google, judging users’ interests in some topics.
• Currently only available for users participating in the Google Search Labs experiment.