The Daily Index — Friday, November 1, 2024 · TLDR Index

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AMA WITH OPENAI'S SAM ALTMAN, KEVIN WEIL, SRINIVAS NARAYANAN, AND MARK CHEN (REDDIT THREAD)

A team from OpenAI, including CEO Sam Altman, Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil, SVP of Research Mark Chen, VP of Engineering Srinivas Narayanan, and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, recently participated in a Reddit AMA. The team discussed ChatGPT search, OpenAI o1 and o1-mini, Advanced Voice, OpenAI's research roadmap, the future of computer agents, AGI, and what's coming next. OpenAI has some releases planned for later this year, but these won't include GPT-5.

links.tldrnewsletter.com

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'A LOT OF DEMORALIZED PEOPLE': GHOST JOBS ARE WREAKING HAVOC ON TECH WORKERS

Ghost jobs are a common phenomenon in the tech industry. These fake job listings serve multiple purposes. Employers make these listings to maintain a presence on job boards and build a talent pool. They also use the listings to gauge how replaceable their employees are, look more stable during hiring freezes, make employees feel replaceable, and trick overworked employees into believing that more people will be brought on to alleviate their overwhelming workloads.

sfgate.com · 7 min

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OVER 500 AMAZON WORKERS DECRY “NON-DATA-DRIVEN” LOGIC FOR 5-DAY RTO POLICY

Over 500 Amazon employees reportedly signed a letter to Amazon Web Services' CEO this week, sharing their outrage over Amazon's upcoming return-to-office policy, which will force workers into offices five days per week starting in 2025.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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L3HARRIS' ROCKET MOTOR UNIT INVESTMENTS BOOSTING OUTPUT

L3Harris' investment in Aerojet, one of the only two large solid-fuel rocket makers for the Pentagon, has paid off, with revenue in L3Harris' business up 23.6% compared to the same quarter five years ago.

finance.yahoo.com · 3 min

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MICROSOFT'S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES SHOW HOW OPENAI IS FUELING GROWTH — AND TAKING A TOLL ON PROFITS

Microsoft has made total funding commitments of $13 billion to OpenAI.

geekwire.com · 5 min

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META IS USING MORE THAN 100,000 NVIDIA H100 AI GPUS TO TRAIN LLAMA-4

Mark Zuckerberg says that Llama 4 is much faster and has new modalities and stronger reasoning.

tomshardware.com · 3 min

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GOOGLE ACCUSED OF SHADOW CAMPAIGNS REDIRECTING ANTITRUST SCRUTINY TO MICROSOFT

An astroturf group called the Open Cloud Coalition appears to be led by a handful of European cloud providers secretly recruited by Google.

arstechnica.com · 5 min

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EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT THAT SLACK FLOWCHART

Slack's engineering team published an incredibly complicated flowchart in March 2017 that summarized the logic Slack uses to determine whether to send a given user a notification for a message.

sophiebits.com · 4 min