TLDR 2024-10-25

OPENAI PLANS TO RELEASE ITS NEXT BIG AI MODEL BY DECEMBER

OpenAI plans to launch its next frontier model, Orion, by December. The model has been teased by an OpenAI executive as potentially up to 100 times more powerful than GPT-4. Orion will initially be released to companies that OpenAI works closely with so they can build their own products and features. Engineers inside Microsoft are preparing to host the model on Azure as early as November. It is unclear if OpenAI will call the model GPT-5, despite it being seen internally as GPT-4's successor.

APPLE TEASES ‘WEEK' OF MAC ANNOUNCEMENTS STARTING ON MONDAY

Apple SVP Greg Joswiak has teased a week of Mac announcements that will start on Monday morning. Apple likely plans to announce a suite of Macs powered by M4 chips, including a low-end 14-inch MacBook Pro, high-end 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, a new iMac, and a new Mac Mini. Russian YouTubers have posted videos of what looks to be new MacBook Pros with M4 chips. Apple revealed its M3 chips and computers at an event on Halloween last year.

TSMC'S ARIZONA CHIP PRODUCTION YIELDS SURPASS TAIWAN'S IN WIN FOR US PUSH

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpasses similar factories back home. The share of chips manufactured at the facility that are usable is about four percentage points higher than comparable facilities in Taiwan. The yield is critical as it determines whether companies will be able to cover the enormous costs of a chip plant. The accomplishment is a sign of progress for US efforts to revitalize local semiconductor manufacturing.

ANALYSIS: WHY ABU DHABI IS BETTING ON FUSION

Scientists appear to be on the verge of unlocking commercial fusion. The technology would be a major inflection point if it can be deployed at scale as it unlocks limitless, cheap energy. This would significantly threaten the fossil fuel industry. As a major oil exporter, the United Arab Emirates is not ignoring or undermining the technology - it is investing in it, exploring how to secure access to crucial fuels, and embedding itself into the fusion supply chain.

EMBEDDINGS ARE UNDERRATED

Embeddings, numerical representations of real-world objects that machine learning systems use to understand complex knowledge domains, give technical writers the ability to discover connections between texts at previously impossible scales. This article presents an overview of how embeddings work and how to use them. It is geared towards technical writers who are learning about embeddings for the first time.

ATTACKING BROWSER EXTENSIONS

Browser extensions are everywhere - it's common for even the average user to have at least one extension installed. Research into browser extension security is mostly scattered around the internet. This post talks about the structure of browser extensions and the vulnerabilities that are present in the ecosystem. It discusses the progression of security in the extension space and highlights attack surfaces and mitigations. The post ends by recommending best practices for ensuring the security of extensions.

HOW I GOT A DIGITAL NOMAD VISA FOR JAPAN

Japan introduced a Digital Nomad visa in April. It allows visitors to legally work remotely from within Japan, with some requirements. This article details how a remote worker gained one of these visas and moved to Japan to work. It covers each step of their journey, including the application process, how they got the paperwork to fulfill the visa requirements, and what the visit to the embassy was like. Workers on the Digital Nomad visa will not be taxed on their income as they are not residents.

HOW INTEL GOT LEFT BEHIND IN THE A.I. CHIP BOOM

enablement and win rate. Take a quick tour!

RSBUILD

Rsbuild is a high-performance build tool that provides rich build features and supports Module Federation, image compression, type checking, PostCSS, Lightning CSS, and more.

THE COMPANY BEHIND ARC IS NOW BUILDING A SECOND, MUCH SIMPLER BROWSER

The Browser Company is building a new browser from scratch - Arc will still be supported, but it won't change much anymore.

NEW ARCHITECTURE IS HERE

React Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm.

HERE IS NOTION'S EMAIL CLIENT

Notion Mail can automatically organize emails and handle tedious back-and-forth exchanges such as scheduling and follow-ups.

WHY I'M LEAVING OPENAI AND WHAT I'M DOING NEXT

Miles Brundage, a researcher and manager at OpenAI, is leaving the company to spend more time working on issues across the whole AI industry.

NOTES FROM THE PROGRESS STUDIES CONFERENCE

Progress Studies is a discipline that aims to figure out what progress is and how to increase it.