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01GENERAL

02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

INTERVIEW: SAM ALTMAN ON BEING FIRED AND REHIRED BY OPENAI

Sam Altman felt defiant, hurt, and angry when OpenAI's board asked him to return a day after they fired him. This article contains an interview with Altman and OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on the attempted boardroom coup. Altman repeatedly declined to say exactly why he was fired during the interview. OpenAI's new board will conduct an independent investigation into what went down.

theverge.com7 min read

FIREFOX FOR ANDROID IS GETTING OVER 400 MORE EXTENSIONS IN DECEMBER

Firefox extensions compatible with Android will be openly available to users on December 14. There will be over 400 extensions available at launch. The update involves giving developers a route to port desktop extensions to Android. Mozilla will be redesigning the add-on library to better show the new options.

9to5google.com1 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

PERPLEXITY AI UNVEILS ‘ONLINE’ LLMS THAT COULD DETHRONE GOOGLE SEARCH

Perplexity AI's combination of a web index and up-to-date information with a conversational AI chatbot-style interface has the potential to dethrone Google. The company recently released fine-tuned and augmented versions of open source models from Mistral and Meta. The models aim to offer helpful, factual, and up-to-date information. They are the first-ever live LLM APIs that are grounded with web search data and have no knowledge cutoff.

venturebeat.com6 min read

GOOGLE’S DEEPMIND FINDS 2.2M CRYSTAL STRUCTURES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE WIN

Google DeepMind researchers have discovered 2.2 million crystal structures using an AI tool known as GNoME. The researchers plan to make 381,000 of the most promising structures available to fellow scientists to make and test their viability. The discovery of inorganic crystals has always been bottlenecked by expensive trial-and-error approaches. The venture shows how AI can be used to shortcut years of experiments and potentially deliver improved products and processes.

arstechnica.com2 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

JAQ

jaq is a clone of the JSON data processing tool jq that focuses on correctness, performance, and simplicity. It aims to support a large subset of jq's syntax and operations. Examples of how to use jq and benchmark results are available.

github.comGitHub repository

PGXMAN

pgxman is a command for implementing extensions and updates in PostgreSQL. It allows developers to install and upgrade Postgres extensions with confidence. pgxman automatically detects and streamlines extension operations based on the local development environment. It integrates with the system package manager to ensure correct versions are installed without extra packages from any shared dependencies between extensions.

pgxman.comTool

05MISCELLANEOUS

Y COMBINATOR'S FUTURE IN THE SOFTWARE SLOWDOWN

Y Combinator invests in, educates, and promotes early-stage companies, especially in software. It has helped birth companies like Airbnb, Reddit, Twitch, and Instacart. YC exerts a wide cultural and intellectual influence on Silicon Valley, the core driver of US economic growth and technological dynamism in the present day. This article looks at YC and its impact on the industry and how the company will be affected as the contemporary political economy of the US changes and software successes become less impactful.

brief.bismarckanalysis.com32 min read

YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO SPOTIFY WRAPPED, 2023

Spotify Wrapped is a yearly summary of the songs and artists that users have listened to throughout the year. It has become one of the most successful and shareable marketing ploys on social media since its inception in 2016. 2023's Spotify Wrapped has launched. This article shows readers how to access the feature, how it works, the most popular artists of the year, and more.

time.com4 min read