The Daily Index — Tuesday, November 14, 2023 · TLDR Index

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Today’s Index

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GOOGLE WITNESS ACCIDENTALLY BLURTS OUT THAT APPLE GETS 36% CUT OF SAFARI DEAL

Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default. Google and Apple had objected to making this information public, but a witness from Google let it slip during their testimony. It is unclear how much money this amounts to, but it is estimated that Apple likely gets paid tens of billions of dollars out of the deal. Google pays a total of $26 billion for its default contracts.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

NVIDIA IS LAUNCHING A NEW MUST-HAVE AI-CHIP

Nvidia is launching the HGX H200, an advanced AI chip with significantly more memory bandwidth and capacity than its predecessor, the H100. Availability remains uncertain as Nvidia works with partners for its 2024 release.

theverge.com · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

REVAMPING DASHER FAQ HUB THROUGH SERVER-DRIVEN CONTENT AND WEBVIEW

DoorDash built a common web app within native mobile applications that supported rapid content updates and similar content across all platforms. Its system architecture involved a WebView that interfaced with Backend for Frontend (BFF) and a backend service. The backend service managed content stored as JSON, including UI formatting. The DoorDash team faced challenges in dealing with different platform messaging protocols, managing the complexity of different message types as requirements evolved, and maintaining compatibility with different feature and client versions.

doordash.engineering · 10 min

TLDR Crypto

SOUTH KOREA’S BITHUMB EYES IPO IN SECOND HALF OF 2025

Bithumb, a South Korean crypto exchange, is reportedly planning a potential IPO on Kosdaq, aiming for the second half of 2025. It has selected Samsung Securities as the underwriter for this process. Meanwhile, its former chair, Lee Jeong-hoon, cleared of previous fraud charges, has returned to the company as a registered director.

theblock.co · 1 min

TLDR Design

ADOBE RESEARCHERS CREATE 3D MODELS FROM 2D IMAGES ‘WITHIN 5 SECONDS’ IN NEW AI BREAKTHROUGH

Adobe Research and Australian National University have developed a breakthrough AI model that can turn a 2D image into a high-quality 3D model in just 5 seconds. The breakthrough involved end-to-end training of around 1 million 3D objects using the Objaverse and MVImgNet datasets to predict neural radiance fields directly from input images.

venturebeat.com · 3 min

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NVIDIA INTRODUCES THE H200, AN AI-CRUNCHING MONSTER GPU THAT MAY SPEED UP CHATGPT

Nvidia has revealed the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, a follow-up of the H100GPU released last year. The H200 utilizes the Hopper architecture to accelerate AI applications. It could lead to far more powerful AI models and faster response times for existing ones. The lack of computing power has been a major bottleneck for AI progress. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be the first cloud service providers to deploy H200-based instances starting next year. The H200 will be generally available starting in Q2 2024.

arstechnica.com · 3 min

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JOBY, VOLOCOPTER FLY ELECTRIC AIR TAXIS OVER NEW YORK CITY

Joby Aviation and Volocopter performed brief demonstration flights of their electric aircraft in New York City over the weekend. New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants to electrify two of the three heliports located in Manhattan. The city aims to reduce emissions by 80% from a 2005 baseline by 2025. Joby is aiming to initially roll out a commercial service in New York and Los Angeles as part of a city-to-airport service deal with Delta Airlines.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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DISRUPTING A SINGLE GENE COULD IMPROVE CAR T CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY, NEW STUDY SHOWS

CAR T cell therapy is a powerful type of immunotherapy that has begun to revolutionize cancer treatment. It involves engineering a patient's T cells so they recognize and attack cancer cells. New research has shown that disrupting a single gene in CAR T cells can make them more potent and able to fight tumors longer. The approach improved the therapy's effectiveness against multiple cancers in mice.

mskcc.org · 5 min

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MY MENTAL MODEL FOR BUILDING AND USING LLM-BASED APPLICATIONS

This article presents a mental model of LLMs and how their limitations can be overcome. A mental model of LLMs is needed to know where they work well, where they don't, and how best to use them. Most people already have a similar model for Google without realizing it - it's assumed everyone knows how to talk to Google, but that wasn't always the case. LLMs are basically like booksmart Harvard graduates who can Google anything to answer any question you ask them.

about.sourcegraph.com · 7 min