The Daily Index — Friday, June 30, 2023 · TLDR Index

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YOUTUBE TESTS DISABLING VIDEOS FOR PEOPLE USING AD BLOCKERS

YouTube is running a small global experiment that prompts users with ad blockers to allow ads or try YouTube Premium. Some users have reported that video playback is being cut off after viewing more than three videos when an ad blocker is active. YouTube says that users will receive multiple warnings before playback is disrupted. Users can dispute their bans if they feel that they have been falsely flagged as using an ad blocker.

theverge.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

INFLECTION RAISES $1.3B

Inflection, a one-year-old startup founded by ex DeepMind co-founder and head of applied AI, has raised a significant amount of money. The company offers a personalized AI assistant called Pi. This announcement comes on the heels of the recent MLPerf results from Inflection’s newly built Nvidia + CoreWeave supercomputer. Most of the money raised will go to compute, with 22k H100s announced.

inflection.ai · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

ARCHITECTURE OF AN EARLY-STAGE SAAS

The blog post details the design principles, tradeoffs, and tricks used to build, deploy, and run Feelback, an API-centric SAAS platform for collecting user signals. The API-centric platform, hosted on Fly, is designed around simplicity, low maintenance, and cost-effectiveness, with a backend composed of an API, a Worker for scheduled jobs, and a PostgreSQL database.

feelback.dev · 20 min

TLDR Crypto

CME GROUP ANNOUNCES PLANS TO LAUNCH ETH TO BTC RATIO FUTURES

CME Group is planning to introduce ETH-BTC ratio futures by July 31, subject to regulatory approval. The ETH-BTC ratio is one of the most popular ratios crypto native traders use to understand market cycles. DeFi users also often trade this ratio when there are relative value opportunities. Now with this instrument, traditional funds can get exposure to this ratio. This comes after the exchange's addition of daily expirations for bitcoin and ether futures options contracts in May.

coindesk.com · 1 min

TLDR Founders

INFLECTION AI RAISES $1.3B

In less than two months after the launch of their first chatbot Pi, Inflection AI and CEO Mustafa Suleyman have raised $1.3 billion in new funding. AI is only accelerating.

forbes.com · 3 min

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PRIVATE

Reddit has given its moderators deadlines to lay out plans for reopening. Subreddits will not be allowed to remain closed. The company claims that moderators are violating the Moderator Code of Conduct, which says that they need to be active and engaged. Many subreddits have switched from private to restricted, so while content can still be viewed by the community, only certain users are allowed to post or comment.

theverge.com · 2 min

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SPACE IN KEY STEP FOR TOURISM

Virgin Galactic completed its first commercial spaceflight on Thursday. Galactic 01 took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico with a pair of pilots, four passengers, and 13 research payloads. The company plans to fly its spacecraft once a month after a second mission in August. It currently has a backlog of about 800 passengers, many who bought tickets for between $200,000 to $250,000 over a decade ago. Ticket sales reopened two years ago, with prices starting at $450,000 per seat.

cnbc.com · 2 min

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WELCOME TO FUSION CITY, USA

A prototype reactor in Everett, WA is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion. Zap Energy's Fuze-Q prototype, which is an office-desk-sized device, is designed to reliably produce enough power for 30,000 homes all day and night, year-round. The system has no cryogenics, no superconducting coils, no auxiliary heating, and no magnets. Zap believes that gargantuan systems are unnecessary, undesirable, and impractical for fusion power. The company is betting that it will be easier to produce practical amounts of power by stringing together short pulses of fusion activity rather than trying to create a continuous fusion reaction.

spectrum.ieee.org · 7 min

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GITLAB'S AI-ASSISTED CODE SUGGESTIONS

GitLab's AI-assisted Code Suggestions helps teams create software faster and more efficiently. Developers can use the tool to complete entire lines of code, generate tests, and more with a single keystroke. The tool keeps source code secure - it is not used as training data. GitLab's AI-powered Code Suggestions supports 13 languages, including C/C++, Go, Java, Python, and Rust.

about.gitlab.com · 3 min