The Daily Index — Thursday, November 30, 2023 · TLDR Index

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INTERVIEW: SAM ALTMAN ON BEING FIRED AND REHIRED BY OPENAI

Sam Altman felt defiant, hurt, and angry when OpenAI's board asked him to return a day after they fired him. This article contains an interview with Altman and OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the attempted boardroom coup. Altman repeatedly declined to say exactly why he was fired during the interview. OpenAI's new board will conduct an independent investigation into what went down.

theverge.com · 7 min

TLDR AI

TOGETHER AI RAISES $102M SERIES A

Led by Kleiner Perkins, this round will help boost the training and inference products that have seen massive adoption since Together’s launch in June.

together.ai · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

TAILWIND CSS HAS A SCALABILITY PROBLEM. HOW CAN WE SOLVE THAT?

Tailwind CSS is known for its focus on class-based design, but the emphasis on classes can pose scalability challenges. These scalability issues arise from complex, dynamically generated class strings for components and conflicting styles due to the unpredictable order of class insertion. There are two solutions for addressing these problems: Class Variance Authority (CVA) and tailwind-merge. CVA introduces a Variants API for Tailwind, allowing developers to define variants and compound variants, which are activated based on specific prop combinations. Tailwind-merge resolves class conflicts by merging class sets and removing duplicates, ensuring that custom class overrides work as intended.

byteofdev.com · 9 min

TLDR Crypto

GRAYSCALE GEARS UP FOR SPOT BITCOIN ETF, UPDATING TRUST AGREEMENT FOR SAKE OF ‘OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES’

Grayscale is updating its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, marking the first modification of the trust since 2018, in preparation for a potential transition to a spot bitcoin ETF. The changes include a daily fee payment structure and the option for assets to be blended in an account for easy share creation and redemption. Experts are suggesting that this is yet another sign that the spot bitcoin ETF applications from Grayscale and others will be approved.

coindesk.com · 2 min

TLDR Design

INTRODUCING A NEW HOMEPAGE VIEW IN GOOGLE DRIVE

Google Drive's new streamlined homepage makes it easier and faster for users to find files that matter most. The homepage will now present personalized file and folder suggestions based on machine-learning algorithms, filter chips to narrow down searches, and a more modern design in line with Google Material Design 3.

workspaceupdates.googleblog.com · 2 min

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FIREFOX FOR ANDROID IS GETTING OVER 400 MORE EXTENSIONS IN DECEMBER

Firefox extensions compatible with Android will be openly available to users on December 14. There will be over 400 extensions available at launch. The update involves giving developers a route to port desktop extensions to Android. Mozilla will be redesigning the add-on library to better show the new options.

9to5google.com · 1 min

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PERPLEXITY AI UNVEILS ‘ONLINE’ LLMS THAT COULD DETHRONE GOOGLE SEARCH

Perplexity AI's combination of a web index and up-to-date information with a conversational AI chatbot-style interface has the potential to dethrone Google. The company recently released fine-tuned and augmented versions of open source models from Mistral and Meta. The models aim to offer helpful, factual, and up-to-date information. They are the first-ever live LLM APIs that are grounded with web search data and have no knowledge cutoff.

venturebeat.com · 6 min

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GOOGLE’S DEEPMIND FINDS 2.2M CRYSTAL STRUCTURES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE WIN

Google DeepMind researchers have discovered 2.2 million crystal structures using an AI tool known as GNoME. The researchers plan to make 381,000 of the most promising structures available to fellow scientists to make and test their viability. The discovery of inorganic crystals has always been bottlenecked by expensive trial-and-error approaches. The venture shows how AI can be used to shortcut years of experiments and potentially deliver improved products and processes.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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Y COMBINATOR'S FUTURE IN THE SOFTWARE SLOWDOWN

Y Combinator invests in, educates, and promotes early-stage companies, especially in software. It has helped birth companies like Airbnb, Reddit, Twitch, and Instacart. YC exerts a wide cultural and intellectual influence on Silicon Valley, the core driver of US economic growth and technological dynamism in the present day. This article looks at YC and its impact on the industry and how the company will be affected as the contemporary political economy of the US changes and software successes become less impactful.

brief.bismarckanalysis.com · 32 min