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DOJ WILL PUSH GOOGLE TO SELL CHROME TO BREAK SEARCH MONOPOLY

Justice Department antitrust officials will ask federal judge Amit Mehta to force Alphabet to sell Google's Chrome browser as part of the ruling that Google illegally monopolized the search market. They will also ask to implement measures related to artificial intelligence and Google's Android smartphone operating system. The proposals have the potential to reshape the online search market and AI industry. States are still considering adding some proposals and some details could change. Google has plans to appeal the antitrust ruling.

NVIDIA'S DELAYED BLACKWELL AI CHIPS ARE OVERHEATING IN SERVERS

Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell GPUs are prone to overheating when connected to each other on server racks. The issue is due to the server rack designed for Blackwell, which can connect up to 72 GPUs at a time. The racks have been redesigned, but this could cause further delays. Nvidia originally said that the GPUs could ship as soon as Q2 2024 before it encountered challenges.

A.I. CHATBOTS DEFEATED DOCTORS AT DIAGNOSING ILLNESS

ChatGPT outperformed doctors in diagnosing disease in a study that looked at whether the chatbot could help doctors diagnose illnesses. Doctors who had help from the chatbot performed only slightly better than doctors without the tool, showing how doctors sometimes will stick to their diagnoses even when presented with a potentially better option. Many of the doctors didn't know how to use chatbots and treated ChatGPT like a search engine for direct questions, which could have affected results. Only a small fraction of the doctors copied the entire case history into the chatbot and asked it to answer the entire question.

SPACEX POISED FOR NEXT STARSHIP FLIGHT TEST NOV. 19

SpaceX launched three Falcon 9 rockets in less than 24 hours on November 17-18 ahead of a planned flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy vehicle today. Falcon 9 has reached 113 launches this year and 398 since it debuted in June 2010. Starship Flight 6 is slated to launch at around 5-5:30 PM from SpaceX's Starbase complex at Boca Chica Beach, Texas. SpaceX is hoping to catch the Super Heavy booster again using a pair of mechanical arms on its launch gantry and relight a Raptor engine in flight. Starship will not reach orbital velocity and will make a targeted splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

RUST FOUNDATION RELEASES PROBLEM STATEMENT ON C++/RUST INTEROPERABILITY

The Rust Foundation's problem statement on the challenges and opportunities in C++ and Rust interoperability outlines three key strategic approaches: improve existing tools and address tactical issues within Rust to reduce interoperability friction and risk in the short term, build consensus around long-term goals and develop the tactical approaches to begin pursuing them, and engage with the C++ community and committee to improve the quality of interoperation for both languages to help realize the mutual goals of safety and performance. The 'interop initiative' was launched earlier this year to make cross-language development more accessible and approachable for the wider programming community.

DOCUMIND

Documind is a document processing tool that uses AI to extract structured data from PDFs. It can handle PDF conversions, extract information, and format results as specified by customizable schemas. Documind is designed for flexible deployment on local or cloud environments.

ELON MUSK WANTED TO BUY SUBSTACK AFTER TWITTER PURCHASE

Elon Musk reportedly had plans to combine Twitter and Substack. He saw acquiring Substack as a way to aid Twitter's subscription service. Substack executive Chris Best declined the acquisition despite Musk offering him a chief executive position at the combined company. Substack pivoted to politics soon after the offer as some of the largest election pundits found a home on the platform.

FILE OVER APP: A PHILOSOPHY FOR DIGITAL LONGEVITY

Creating digital artifacts that last requires using open file formats that are easy to retrieve and read. This means using tools that give people this freedom. While it isn't always possible to choose 'file over app', there are almost always options that allow users to export their data, which can later be scraped into usable formats. This post provides links to tools and projects that align with the 'file over app' philosophy.

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AMD DOMINATES CHIP SALES ON AMAZON

The top 10 best-selling CPUs on Amazon are AMD processes from the Ryzen 5000, 7000, and 9000 processor series.

SECURITY MEANS SECURING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE

Security at scale means deciding how to divide a limited pool of engineering resources such that the largest demographic of users benefits from a security initiative.

CHATGPT IS SLIPPING

Production code that utilized gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini suddenly stopped working on November 13, suggesting there was an update to the model that made them incapable of doing the previous task.

MISTRAL UNLEASHES PIXTRAL LARGE AND UPGRADES LE CHAT INTO FULL-ON CHATGPT COMPETITOR

Mistral has added image generation, web search, and an interactive 'canvas' to its free web-based chatbot, Le Chat.

GOOGLE IS TURNING CHROME OS INTO ANDROID TO COMPETE WITH THE IPAD

Google is also building a new version of Chrome for Android with extensions support and a Terminal to run Linux apps on Android.

INSIDE ELON MUSK'S MESSY BREAKUP WITH OPENAI

Elon Musk's suit against Sam Altman has given Musk a chance to reveal how Altman secured power in the company's early days and his willingness to go toe-to-toe with for-profit competitors from the beginning.