The Casual Dork Weekly #36

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Sulaiman Hassiem
April 09, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

🌟 Editor's Note
It’s been a while since I have written a newsletter but you know how it goes. Life starts adding difficulty levels and the next thing you know you’re dealing with the boss level. I’ve decided to switch up the look and feel of the newsletter. I hope you like it.

🗓️ Upcoming Events

Comic Con Cape Town

Comic fans unite in your best cosplay as the annual Comic Con Cape Town is around the corner

  • When: 1 - 4 May 2025

  • Where: CTICC

Africa Tech Festival

$250,000 funding available for AI projects addressing global challenges.

  • When: 10 - 13 November 2025

  • Where: CTICC

The Rise of Generative AI in Unexpected Places

  • Content: AI is now generating personalized illustrations in many styles. Not too long ago we were seeing our feeds filled with Studio Ghibli-style images and then there was the Action Figure trend.

  • AI Agents: The AI buzzword of the year so far has to be AI Agents, but what are they? AI agents are software systems that use artificial intelligence to autonomously perform tasks and make decisions to achieve goals.

  • Unexpected Stat: 42% of Fortune 500 companies now have dedicated generative AI teams

Quantum Computing Goes Mainstream

  • Microsoft in the pursuit of creating a quantum computing solution has created what they are calling a ‘new state of matter’ which is a bold claim but this article breaks it down.

The Beef Just Won’t Die Down

Arguably the story that dominated headlines in the world of Hip Hop. Drake and Kendrick Lamar spent the second half of 2024 trading lyrical blows with diss track after diss track.

Most of us thought this came to an end with Kendrick’s performance at the 2025 Superbowl.

Drake was like nah. Hold my white wine spritzer. (mans is never beating the allegations) He dropped the video for his song Nokia, which has a bunch of visual side shots at Kendrick.

Time will tell if this beef will ever end.

🔥 In Case You Missed It…

Funding Roundup

  • Quantum Leap Technologies secured $45M Series B, led by Sequoia Capital, to advance quantum computing infrastructure for enterprise solutions.

  • EcoGrid AI raised $22M to develop machine learning algorithms for renewable energy grid optimization.

  • MindSync Neurtech closed a $15M seed round to expand its brain-computer interface research.

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Action Figurine: The Casual Dork

The Casual Dork: Content Innovator with a Retro Twist

 🌉 Background: 10+ years in digital marketing, content and podcasting.

👑 Achievement: Living

🙈 Quirk: Can identify best practices on every social media platform.

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Did You Know? The first computer bug was literally a bug—in 1947, Grace Hopper found a moth trapped in a Harvard Mark II computer, coining the term "debugging" in the process.

Till next time,

The Casual Dork Weekly

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