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OPENAI IS GROWING FAST AND BURNING THROUGH PILES OF MONEY

OpenAI's monthly revenue hit $300 million in August and it expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales this year. However, it expects to lose roughly $5 billion after paying for costs related to running its services. There will also be other costs such as equity-based compensation to employees. Its biggest cost is the computing power it gets through a partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI plans to raise ChatGPT Plus to $44 over the next five years.

META'S NEW AI-MADE POSTS OPEN A PANDORA'S BOX

Meta is starting to test personalized content created by Meta AI in Facebook and Instagram. Content will be generated based on interests, with some featuring the user's likeness. Users will be able to edit the content or swipe to see more content generated in real time. They will be able to opt out of the feature.

SPACEX LAUNCHES RESCUE MISSION TO RETURN STRANDED ASTRONAUTS

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on Saturday with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov on board. The mission has two empty seats to return Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded for months on the International Space Station. Their stay was only supposed to last 8 days, but a problem with Boeing's Starliner's propulsion system prevented their return. Their total stay will end up lasting 8 months.

GOOGLE UNVEILS ALPHACHIP AI-ASSISTED CHIP DESIGN TECHNOLOGY — CHIP LAYOUT AS A GAME FOR A COMPUTER

Google's AlphaChip reinforcement learning method for designing chip layouts promises to substantially speed up the design of chip floorplans and make them more optimal in terms of performance, power, and area. The method has been instrumental in designing Google's Tensor Processing Units. Its success has inspired a wave of new research into using AI for different stages of chip design. The method has been shared with the public - a link to the repository is available in the article.

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MITATA

mitata is a tool for benchmarking. It features automatic garbage collection and universal compatibility with engines and runtimes. mitata makes augmenting benchmarks easy and provides helpful warnings. It provides visualizations in the terminal as well as clear summaries.

IT'S HARD TO WRITE CODE FOR COMPUTERS, BUT IT'S EVEN HARDER TO WRITE CODE FOR HUMANS

Writing code that other humans interact with, like frameworks, libraries, APIs, SDKs, and programming languages, is difficult because developers need to grapple with other users' mental models of their code. It is equal parts computer science and psychology. This post discusses how to make these products easier for developers to adopt.

WHEN TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE

There's a lot of selection bias in advice about whether to follow your passion. Most people telling you to follow your passion became successful by doing what they're most interested in. One of the requirements for doing great work is that the person is working on what interests them most. Not everyone can do or wants to do great work. However, the root of great work is a sort of ambitious curiosity which can't be manufactured.

THE MESSY WORDPRESS DRAMA, EXPLAINED

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg last week came out with a harsh attack on major WordPress hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company a 'cancer' to the community. This has escalated into a barrage of legal threats that has caught many website operators in a conflict beyond their control. WP Engine customers were off from accessing WordPress.org's servers, but the company has been granted a temporary reprieve. WP Engine claims that Automattic demanded a very large sum of money days before Mullenweg's attack and threatened to carry out a 'scorched earth nuclear approach' toward WP Engine if the amount wasn't received. Many more details about the situation are available in the article.

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BEING RAISED BY THE INTERNET

A childhood spent tinkering with computers has resulted in a successful career, largely thanks to the kindness of strangers who were willing to share their work openly.

KAMAL 2.0 RELEASED

Kamal, a deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers, is now simpler to use at any scale.

THE PUBLIC DOMAIN PROBLEM

A Creative Commons Zero license is the best way to guarantee that authors or their successors won't try to reclaim their work.

1 IN 6 COMPANIES ARE HESITANT TO HIRE RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES

Gen Z has a reputation for being challenging to work with and difficult to manage.

DELL SALES TEAM TOLD TO RETURN TO OFFICE 5 DAYS A WEEK, STARTING MONDAY

Dell's new policy applies to salespeople worldwide - they were previously allowed to work remotely two days per week.

GOV. NEWSOM VETOES CALIFORNIA'S CONTROVERSIAL AI BILL, SB 1047

SB 1047 is a high-profile bill authored by State Senator Scott Wiener that would have made companies that develop AI models liable for implementing safety protocols to prevent 'critical harms'.