The Daily Index — Monday, November 18, 2024 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI'S TUMULTUOUS EARLY YEARS REVEALED IN EMAILS FROM MUSK, ALTMAN, AND OTHERS

The case between Elon Musk and OpenAI has exposed a batch of emails sent between Musk, Sam Altman, and others during OpenAI's early days. The emails were revealed as part of an attempt to prove OpenAI is somehow breaking antitrust law. They reveal how OpenAI's team felt about Musk being the leader of the company, their worries about Altman, Microsoft's early relationship with OpenAI, the company's plans to buy Cerebras, and more. This article provides a summary of the content of the emails.

techcrunch.com · 5 min

TLDR AI

ANTHROPIC HIRES ITS FIRST “AI WELFARE” RESEARCHER

Anthropic hired Kyle Fish as its first "AI welfare" researcher to explore ethical considerations around potential AI consciousness and moral rights. This marks a potential shift for AI companies in addressing ethical questions related to AI systems' consciousness and agency. Fish's recent paper discusses improving AI welfare understanding to avoid mishandling decisions concerning AI moral consideration.

arstechnica.com · 5 min

TLDR Web Dev

HOW WE MADE A RUBY METHOD 200X FASTER

A performance regression in Campsite's API was identified through observability tools after code was refactored to transform rich text into plain text and Markdown. Profiling revealed that the bottleneck was the use of a certain node lookup. This was replaced with a more efficient HANDLERS_BY_NODE_NAMES hash lookup, which reduced processing time from 200ms to under 1ms.

campsite.com · 5 min

TLDR InfoSec

ELECTRICITY PROVIDER TIBBER HACKED, 50K GERMAN CUSTOMERS AFFECTED

Tibber is a provider of green energy options for customers in Northern Europe and Germany. It reported that customer data belonging to 50K German customers of its smart hardware online store was stolen. The leaked data includes names, email addresses, order amounts, and incomplete address data.

heise.de · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

WINTERMUTE'S PROPOSAL TO OVERHAUL ETHENA PROTOCOL REVENUE SHARE APPROVED BY RISK COMMITTEE

Wintermute's proposal to allocate a portion of Ethena protocol revenue to staked ENA (sENA) and related programs was approved by Ethena's risk committee. Wintermute hopes to better align sENA holders with the Ethena protocol's growth and revenue generation. The Ethena Foundation is committed to ensuring all future revenue benefits the protocol exclusively and will be governed transparently via ENA and sENA stakeholders.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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BLUESKY SAYS 1 MILLION PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR THE PLATFORM IN LAST 24 HOURS

Bluesky saw more than a million users sign up to its platform over 24 hours last Thursday. Its app was placed at the top of the free apps chart on the App Store in the US. The platform's CEO claims that Bluesky has a higher engagement than X. Bluesky has plans to launch subscriptions. It recently raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Blockchain Capital.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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A $12,000 SURGERY TO CHANGE EYE COLOR IS SURGING IN POPULARITY

There is a new form of cosmetic surgery that can permanently change people's eye color. Many doctors say the procedure hasn't been proven safe and that it could cause lasting damage. The procedure involves cutting donut-like tunnels into the cornea, widening the tunnels, then filling them with dye. It takes about half an hour and the effects are immediate. Pictures of a patient before and after the procedure are available in the article.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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‘A FORK IN THE ROAD': LAUNDRY-SORTING ROBOT SPURS AI HOPES AND FEARS AT EUROPE'S BIGGEST TECH EVENT

US firm Agility Robotics recently demonstrated its Digit humanoid robot at this year's Web Summit. The robot's ability to sift through a pile of colored T-shirts and place them in a basket raised discussions about safety, jobs, AI's effect on the climate, and its influence across a huge range of industries. This post summarizes some of the discussion points from the Web Summit. The development of generative AI has opened up the doors for new types of companies to solve problems that otherwise would not have been possible.

theguardian.com · 7 min

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FRAMER MOTION IS NOW INDEPENDENT, INTRODUCING MOTION

Framer Motion is now completely independent and is now Motion. The change will bring improved support and documentation, a stronger community, and a renewed focus on developer-facing features. Motion has become wildly successful in its own right and is the go-to React animation solution. Spinning it out as an independent open source project will help ensure its future as a core driver of animations on all sites.

motion.dev · 4 min