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OPENAI'S TUMULTUOUS EARLY YEARS REVEALED IN EMAILS FROM MUSK, ALTMAN, AND OTHERS

The case between Elon Musk and OpenAI has exposed a batch of emails sent between Musk, Sam Altman, and others during OpenAI's early days. The emails were revealed as part of an attempt to prove OpenAI is somehow breaking antitrust law. They reveal how OpenAI's team felt about Musk being the leader of the company, their worries about Altman, Microsoft's early relationship with OpenAI, the company's plans to buy Cerebras, and more. This article provides a summary of the content of the emails.

BLUESKY SAYS 1 MILLION PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR THE PLATFORM IN LAST 24 HOURS

Bluesky saw more than a million users sign up to its platform over 24 hours last Thursday. Its app was placed at the top of the free apps chart on the App Store in the US. The platform's CEO claims that Bluesky has a higher engagement than X. Bluesky has plans to launch subscriptions. It recently raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Blockchain Capital.

A $12,000 SURGERY TO CHANGE EYE COLOR IS SURGING IN POPULARITY

There is a new form of cosmetic surgery that can permanently change people's eye color. Many doctors say the procedure hasn't been proven safe and that it could cause lasting damage. The procedure involves cutting donut-like tunnels into the cornea, widening the tunnels, then filling them with dye. It takes about half an hour and the effects are immediate. Pictures of a patient before and after the procedure are available in the article.

‘A FORK IN THE ROAD': LAUNDRY-SORTING ROBOT SPURS AI HOPES AND FEARS AT EUROPE'S BIGGEST TECH EVENT

US firm Agility Robotics recently demonstrated its Digit humanoid robot at this year's Web Summit. The robot's ability to sift through a pile of colored T-shirts and place them in a basket raised discussions about safety, jobs, AI's effect on the climate, and its influence across a huge range of industries. This post summarizes some of the discussion points from the Web Summit. The development of generative AI has opened up the doors for new types of companies to solve problems that otherwise would not have been possible.

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FRAMER MOTION IS NOW INDEPENDENT, INTRODUCING MOTION

Framer Motion is now completely independent and is now Motion. The change will bring improved support and documentation, a stronger community, and a renewed focus on developer-facing features. Motion has become wildly successful in its own right and is the go-to React animation solution. Spinning it out as an independent open source project will help ensure its future as a core driver of animations on all sites.

MIRROR: AN LLM-POWERED PROGRAMMING-BY-EXAMPLE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Programming-by-example is a technique where users provide examples of the outcome they want and the system generates code that can perform it. Mirror is a proof-of-concept AI-powered programming language that only allows programming-by-example. Users define functions through a set of example input-output pairs. Everything must be expressed through examples. This post explains how Mirror works and provides examples and links to resources.

T-MOBILE HACKED IN MASSIVE CHINESE BREACH OF TELECOM NETWORKS

A Chinese cyber-espionage operation successfully gained entry into multiple US and international telecommunications companies, including T-Mobile. The months-long operation aimed to spy on the cellphone communications of high-value intelligence targets. Attackers were able to access cellphone lines used by senior national security and policy officials across the US government, stealing call logs, unencrypted texts, and some audio from targets. The hackers were able to access information from systems maintained by the carriers to comply with US surveillance requests.

APPLE SMELLS BLOOD IN THE WATER

Apple is making moves to take advantage of Adobe's struggling public perception. Its recent strong push back into creative applications is providing users with good alternatives and unbeatable performance. There were rumors that Apple shuttered the development of Aperture to give Adobe Lightroom the space it needed to take over the photography industry. Adobe has recently been courting Windows aggressively, which may be why Apple has decided to increase investment in its creative applications.

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MAYBE BLUESKY HAS "WON"

This post details the technology behind the social network Bluesky, showing how it is currently neither federated nor decentralized.

"MAGIC LINKS" ARE MAGIC IN NAME ONLY

Using Magic Links to log in is slower than using email OTP.

XAI'S VALUE IS SET TO DOUBLE, JOINING ELON MUSK'S TESLA AND SPACEX IN REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

xAI is raising up to $6 billion at a $50 billion valuation, with $5 billion expected from sovereign funds in the Middle East.

GOOGLE MAY SOON LET YOU CREATE EMAIL ALIASES IN AN EFFORT TO FIGHT SPAM

Google's 'Shielded Email' system will hide users' emails behind an email forwarding alias system to keep users' email addresses secure and help them steer clear of spam.

TIKTOK PARENT BYTEDANCE'S VALUATION RISES TO ABOUT $300 BILLION

ByteDance investors view Donald Trump's return to the White House as an overall positive for TikTok's hopes in the US.

OPENAI EMAIL ARCHIVES (FROM MUSK V. ALTMAN)

A substantial number of emails between Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman have been released as part of the court case between Musk and Altman - this page compiles them all in an easy-to-read format.