The Daily Index — Wednesday, October 30, 2024 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI WILL START USING AMD CHIPS AND COULD MAKE ITS OWN AI HARDWARE IN 2026

OpenAI is reportedly working with Broadcom to develop custom silicon designed to handle large AI workloads for inference. It has secured manufacturing capacity with TSMC. The custom-designed hardware will likely not start production until 2026. OpenAI's chip development team reportedly includes lead engineers who have previously worked on Google's Tensor processors for AI.

theverge.com · 1 min

TLDR AI

AN INTERVIEW WITH SALESFORCE CEO MARC BENIOFF ABOUT AI ABUNDANCE

Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff recently discussed the company's new AI initiative, Agentforce, highlighting its potential to revolutionize enterprise applications and customer interactions. Benioff criticized Microsoft's Copilot, positioning Salesforce's approach as more integrated and effective due to its robust platform and data architecture. In the interview, he emphasized the importance of AI-driven "agentic" layers, which aim to enhance customer service and operational efficiency across industries.

stratechery.com · 53 min

TLDR Web Dev

MIGRATING BILLIONS OF RECORDS: MOVING OUR ACTIVE DNS DATABASE WHILE IT'S IN USE

Cloudflare migrated its DNS database to a new cluster. The process involved separating DNS record data from zone data, creating a new internal DNS Records gRPC API, and building a custom Change Data Capture and Transfer Service (CDCTS). The CDCTS enabled near real-time data transfer. Afterwards, Cloudflare saw an improvement in its DNS Records API performance.

blog.cloudflare.com · 14 min

TLDR InfoSec

ADMINS BETTER SPRING INTO ACTION OVER LATEST CRITICAL OPEN SOURCE VULN

CVE-2024-38821 is a new critical vulnerability that affects Spring WebFlux applications with specific configurations. While rated 9.1 CVSS by Spring, Red Hat considers it moderate (7.4) due to limited scope. It only impacts apps using WebFlux with static resources and non-permitAll authorization rules.

theregister.com · 3 min

TLDR Crypto

HACKER EXPLOITS TRUTH TERMINAL FOUNDER'S X ACCOUNT, NETS $600K BY PROMOTING A SCAM TOKEN

Truth Terminal founder Andy Ayrey's X account was hacked. The attacker promoted a scam token that quickly gained hype, reaching a $25M market cap and netting the hacker $600k, before a mass sell-off caused the token's value to plummet. Ayrey has regained access to his account, which he claims was compromised through a SIM swap attack, but suspicious activity continues to appear on his profile.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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ELON MUSK'S XAI IN TALKS TO RAISE FUNDING VALUING IT AT $40 BILLION

xAI is in talks with investors regarding a funding round that would value it around $40 billion. The startup was last valued at $24 billion just a few months ago. The funding discussions are in the early stages, so terms are still subject to change and the talks could fall apart. The company's current revenue sources include the X Premium subscription and an API developers can use to build applications with Grok.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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THE BATTERY REVOLUTION IS FINALLY HERE

Solid-state cells, an emerging, ground-breaking technology, are already hitting the market. These batteries solidify the traditionally liquid electrolyte, enabling advantages such as higher energy density and lower cost and weight. There are many different types of solid-state cells. This article looks at several of the competitors in this industry and their approaches to developing solid-state batteries.

insideevs.com · 12 min

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“IMPACT PRINTING” IS A CEMENT-FREE ALTERNATIVE TO 3D-PRINTED STRUCTURES

A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich claims to have developed a robotic construction method that is better than 3D printing. Impact printing uses Earth-based materials such as sand, silt, clay, and gravel to make homes. It is less carbon-intensive and much more sustainable and affordable than 3D printing. Earth-based materials are abundant, recyclable, available at low costs, and can even be excavated at the construction site. The researchers plan to commercialize this technology once they have a prefabrication facility.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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GITHUB COPILOT MOVES BEYOND OPENAI MODELS TO SUPPORT CLAUDE 3.5, GEMINI

Google Copilot is switching to a multi-model approach over the coming weeks. It will roll out Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Copilot Chat's web and VC Code interfaces over the next few weeks, with Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro coming a bit later. GitHub is also adding support for a wider range of OpenAI models, including GPT o1-preview and o1-mini. Developers will be able to switch between the models to tailor the model to fit their needs. Organizations will be able to choose which models will be usable by team members.

arstechnica.com · 4 min