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qawolf.com

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FROM WEB DEVELOPER TO DATABASE DEVELOPER IN 10 YEARS

This article details Phil Eaton's journey from a web developer to a database developer and the decisions made along the way. Eaton was a web developer from 2014 to 2012 and a hands-on engineering manager from 2017 to 2021. He tried to start a company in 2021 but left in 2023 to be a co-founder at TigerBeetle. This experience eventually led to him becoming a database developer.

notes.eatonphil.com · 4 min

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THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW ALTMAN AND MUSK WENT FROM FRIENDS TO BITTER ENEMIES

Sam Altman and Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015. Their relationship soured in 2018, and Musk left after a power struggle. The rivalry intensified when Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, following the release of ChatGPT. Musk recently followed the Stargate unveiling by making a hostile $97.4 billion bid for the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. This article looks at Altman and Musk's rivalry through conversations with more than a dozen people familiar with their relationship over the years.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 16 min

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INSIDE AMAZON'S MESSY PUSH TO BRING EVERYONE BACK TO THE OFFICE

Amazon told hundreds of thousands of workers to come back to the office full-time, but it didn't have enough desks to go around. Some employees don't have any teammates in the same location, so they are fighting other employees for private rooms to make video calls. This article looks at how Amazon's policy for employees to return to the office or find somewhere else to work has turned out. The company is short on desks and parking and employees report that the initiative hasn't helped them become more collaborative.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 8 min

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SPACEX IS SO CLOSE TO TURNING ITS ROCKET HEADQUARTERS INTO AN ACTUAL CITY

In December, SpaceX submitted a petition to turn the coastal Texas village where the Starship factory and space port operate into an incorporated city called Starbase.

mashable.com · 4 min

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FIGURE AI IS IN TALKS TO RAISE $1.5B AT 15X ITS LAST VALUATION

Figure's founder last month said that the company has signed on a second commercial customer that sees the potential to ship 100,000 humanoid robots.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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WE WERE WRONG ABOUT GPUS

Fly.io's Fly GPU Machines enabled GPUs, but the project didn't live up to expectations - developers don't want GPUs, they want working large language models.

fly.io · 10 min

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MUSK'S XAI DISCUSSING $10 BILLION RAISE AT $75 BILLION VALUATION

Investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Valor Equity Partners are still in talks to participate in the transaction - terms of the round have yet to be finalized and could still change.

finance.yahoo.com · 2 min

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THE GREAT AI UI UNIFICATION

OpenAI will likely replace its model-picker dropdown with an input box with no options - users would simply type something and ChatGPT will figure out their intent.

spyglass.org · 5 min

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META CONFIRMS ‘PROJECT WATERWORTH,' A GLOBAL SUBSEA CABLE PROJECT SPANNING 50,000 KILOMETERS

Meta has confirmed that it is working on a 50,000 kilometers-long, $10 billion+ subsea cable project to connect up the globe in the world's longest subsea cable project.

techcrunch.com · 4 min