The Daily Index — Tuesday, August 20, 2024 · TLDR Index

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AMD SIGNS $4.9 BILLION DEAL TO CHALLENGE NVIDIA'S AI INFRASTRUCTURE LEAD

AMD has agreed to buy ZT Systems, an artificial intelligence infrastructure group, for $4.9 billion in cash and stocks. The acquisition will help AMD accelerate the adoption of its AI data center chips, which compete with Nvidia's popular GPUs. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval. It is expected to close in the first half of 2025.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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COMPETING IN SEARCH

Google has the best results because everyone uses it. Being the default search brings in more data, making the search engine even better. It is unclear what companies will do if Google was ordered to stop paying to be the default. Companies like Apple may reinvest the money they were paying Google previously to develop their own search engines. This article takes a look at the many possible impacts the recent antitrust case against Google may have.

ben-evans.com · 16 min

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HOW THE SPARKLES EMOJI BECAME THE SYMBOL OF OUR AI FUTURE

One of the earliest examples of companies using the sparkles emoji for AI was in early 2021 when AI marketing startup Jasper featured it in a content-creation tool and promotional materials.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

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GITHUB CEO THOMAS DOHMKE SAYS THE AI INDUSTRY NEEDS COMPETITION TO THRIVE

This is a transcript of an interview with GitHub's CEO Thomas Dohmke where he discusses how independent GitHub really is inside of Microsoft, GitHub Copilot, how much of GitHub's AI roadmap is tied to Microsoft's AI roadmap, and much more.

theverge.com · 68 min

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SOFTWARE ESTIMATES HAVE NEVER WORKED AND NEVER WILL

As soon as a type of software development becomes so routine that it would be possible to estimate, it turns into a product or service that you can just buy rather than build.

world.hey.com · 3 min

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$16,000 HUMANOID ROBOT READY TO LEAP INTO MASS PRODUCTION

China's Unitree Robotics $16,000 G1 model is ready for mass production - a video of it performing several moves, climbing stairs, and dealing with obstacles is available in the article.

newatlas.com · 3 min

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MARKOV CHAINS ARE FUNNIER THAN LLMS

Markov chains, which are like very small, simple, and naive large language models, produce better humor than models like ChatGPT, which have been stripped of personality.

emnudge.dev · 7 min

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LLM APPLICATIONS I WANT TO SEE

Large language models bring a diverse range of possibilities - some of these actually rely on new AI capabilities and others will be things that could have been done before LLMs, but it didn't occur to anyone to try.

sarahconstantin.substack.com · 14 min