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01GENERAL

Sponsored

In the first offering of its kind, IaaS provider NexGen Cloud is giving investors the opportunity to purchase its GPU cloud servers. The company is projecting 30-50% annualised returns.

info.nexgencloud.comSponsor

02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

OPENAI PLANS APP STORE FOR AI SOFTWARE, THE INFORMATION REPORTS

OpenAI plans to launch a marketplace for AI models built on top of its technology. Enterprise customers often tailor OpenAI's technology to their specific use cases. The marketplace would allow these customers to make their models available to other businesses. It will compete with other app stores, including one by Microsoft, and help OpenAI's technology reach more people.

reuters.com2 min read

RIVIAN IS THE NEXT AUTOMAKER TO ADOPT TESLA'S CHARGING PLUGS

The Combined Changing System (CCS) standard's connector and cable are big and unwieldy, unlike Tesla's more elegant alternative, the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Rivian will start building NACS ports into its vehicles in 2025. It will make adaptors available for its customers. Tesla charging sites will be added to Rivian's mobile and vehicle navigation apps.

arstechnica.com2 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

DEEPMIND'S CO-FOUNDER SUGGESTED TESTING AN AI CHATBOT'S ABILITY TO TURN $100,000 INTO $1 MILLION TO MEASURE HUMAN-LIKE INTELLIGENCE

Mustafa Suleyman, formerly head of applied AI at DeepMind and now CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI, believes that the Turing test is an outdated method to test AI intelligence. The Turing test doesn't reveal information about what systems understand, whether they have established complex internal monologues, or if they engage in planning over abstract time horizons. Suleyman proposes a concept called artificial capable intelligence (ACI), where bots are able to complete short-term goals and tasks with little human input. Bots can achieve ACI by passing a modern Turing test that involves turning a $100,000 seed investment into $1 million. Suleyman believes that AI will be able to achieve that milestone in the next two years.

finance.yahoo.com4 min read

ROBOCAT: A SELF-IMPROVING ROBOTIC AGENT

RoboCat is a self-improving AI agent for robotics. It learns to perform tasks across different arms and then self-generates new training data to improve its technique. RoboCat can solve and adapt to multiple tasks across different robots. It learns much faster than other state-of-the-art models, picking up new tasks with as few as 100 demonstrations. A video demonstrating RoboCat's abilities is available in the article.

deepmind.com5 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

NOVEL

Novel is a Notion-style editor with AI-powered autocompletions. It can be deployed to Vercel with one click. A 30-second video demo is available.

github.comGitHub repository

HOW TO USE GITHUB COPILOT: PROMPTS, TIPS, AND USE CASES

This guide shares examples and best practices for communicating with GitHub Copilot. Generative AI coding tools are transforming the way developers work, but just like with any emerging tech, there is a learning curve. Learning how GitHub Copilot processes information can help developers adjust how they communicate with it.

github.blog12 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

NOT THAT KIND OF OPEN

Some Mastodon/Fediverse administrators have pledged to preemptively block Meta's upcoming ActivityPub service. ActivityPub makes social networking truly open. Blocking Meta from participating in the protocol seems to go against that ideal. There are billions of people who use Meta's services and there is no reason to cut them off from the ActivityPub social world.

daringfireball.net3 min read

EVERYONE HAS A SIDE HUSTLE NOW. IS THAT A GOOD THING?

Almost everyone has a side hustle. Even many leaders have significant side hustles. Remote work means that people no longer have to hide their other gigs from their co-workers. Many founders and CEOs don't like this. Side hustles are a distraction to workers' full-time jobs. While people can be good at doing more than one thing, being truly great requires full commitment.

saastr.com10 min read