The Daily Index — Wednesday, March 12, 2025 · TLDR Index

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INSIDE GOOGLE'S INVESTMENT IN THE A.I. START-UP ANTHROPIC

Google owns 14% of Anthropic. Its investment gives it little control over the AI startup - Google holds no voting rights, no board seats, and no board observer rights at Anthropic. Google is set to invest an additional $750 million in Anthropic in September through a convertible debt - it has invested more than $3 billion into the AI company in total so far. It is only allowed to own up to 15% of Anthropic.

nytimes.com · 4 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI INTRODUCES NEW TOOLS FOR AI AGENTS

OpenAI has launched new APIs and an Agents SDK to help developers build AI agents more easily. The toolkit includes web and file search, computer use capabilities, and observability tools to streamline agent orchestration and task automation.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 12 min

TLDR Web Dev

WHAT IS SERVICE DISCOVERY?

Service discovery allows services to dynamically locate and communicate with each other without relying on hard-coded network locations. It addresses the challenge of services being created, destroyed, or moved by providing a mechanism for applications to find their dependencies. The process involves service registration, where instances announce their availability to a central registry; service discovery, where clients query the registry for available services; and health monitoring.

swequiz.com · 9 min

TLDR InfoSec

SECOND BIGGEST BANK IN US HIT BY MAJOR DATA BREACH STEALING SSNS AND OTHER PERSONAL INFO

Bank of America has informed clients that it suffered a data breach due to a data destruction vendor's mishandling of sensitive documents. The bank reported that some documents were found outside of the secure containers on the exterior of the financial center. The documents may have included names, account details, addresses, contact information, date of birth, SSNs, and other government IDs.

dailymail.co.uk · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

SEN. LUMMIS REINTRODUCES BILL TO CREATE TRUMP'S PLANNED STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE

Senator Cynthia Lummis has reintroduced a bill to establish a U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve, aligning with President Trump's recent executive order. The proposed legislation, which aims to boost the national balance sheet and maintain American economic competitiveness, would authorize a million-unit bitcoin purchase program and create secure vaults operated by the Treasury.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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OPENAI SAYS IT HAS TRAINED AN AI THAT'S ‘REALLY GOOD' AT CREATIVE WRITING

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman claims that his company has trained a new model that is 'really good' at creative writing. It is unknown how and when the model will be released. OpenAI has previously focused on challenges in the fields of math and programming rather than creative writing. The company experimenting with writing suggests that the latest generation of models has vastly improved on the wordsmithing front.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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NASA LAUNCHES NEW SPACE TELESCOPE AND SUITE OF SOLAR SATELLITES

SPHEREx and PUNCH lifted off from the Vandenburg Space Force Base at 11:11 PM ET on Tuesday. SPHEREx is a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. PUNCH is a suite of satellites that will study the Sun's outer atmosphere and solar wind. This article gets into the specifics of what the missions aim to do.

nytimes.com · 7 min

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AUSTRALIAN MAN SURVIVES 100 DAYS WITH ARTIFICIAL HEART IN WORLD-FIRST SUCCESS

An Australian man lived with a totally artificial heart for 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March. The BiVACOR total artificial heart uses magnetic levitation technology to replicate the natural blood flow of a healthy heart. The implant is still in the early stages of clinical study, but it looks to be a promising alternative for patients who are unable to wait for a donor heart or when a donor heart is simply not available. There is still a long way to go before the artificial heart could be considered a replacement for a heart transplant - the functioning time span of the device is still significantly less than that of a donor heart.

theguardian.com · 4 min

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HERE'S HOW I USE LLMS TO HELP ME WRITE CODE

Using large language models (LLMs) to write code is difficult and unintuitive and there's little guidance to help people figure out how best to apply them. The patterns that work well do not come naturally to everyone. This post guides readers on how to achieve great results when programming with LLMs. One of the biggest advantages of LLMs is speed of development - LLMs enable developers to ship projects that they previously wouldn't have been able to justify spending any time on.

simonwillison.net · 30 min