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If you're building B2B SaaS, chances are you've already run into WorkOS — the API that lets you easily add enterprise-ready features to your app (SAML, SSO, SCIM, audit logs…).
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Amazon, AMD, and several other startups are starting to offer credible alternatives to Nvidia's chips. Nvidia's rivals are proving they can deliver faster speeds at lower prices for some crucial AI tasks. Many are emulating Nvidia's tactic of building complete computers so that customers can gain maximum power and performance out of their chips. Spending on computers without Nvidia chips by data center operators is expected to grow 49% this year to $126 billion.
Meta is turning to nuclear energy to support its data centers and the communities around them. It recently announced a 'request for proposals' for developers that can bring nuclear reactors online starting in the early 2030s. The company is open to many ideas on the size and type of reactors, the locations, and other details. It is seeking initial responses by February 7.
E11 Bio has been working for the past three years to develop techniques to make brain mapping better, cheaper, and faster. One of these approaches involves making the brain label itself by injecting it with viruses that cause neurons to make special proteins that act like barcodes. The approach reduces the amount of brain slicing required and creates more accurate wiring maps that require less proofreading. E11 is now shifting from proof-of-concept mode to building out its imaging infrastructure so it can tackle an entire mouse brain.
The USC Rocket Propulsion Lab at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has broken the international altitude record with its Aftershock II rocket. The rocket reached an altitude of 470,000 feet, higher than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before. Aftershock II, at 330 pounds with a height of 13 ft and 8” diameter, reached a velocity of 5,283 ft/s and Mach 5.5. A video of the launch is available in the article.
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Amazon's new Aurora DSQL is a serverless, globally distributed database that is highly available, multi-regional, Postgres compatible, and fast. This post looks over its features to see if the product works as advertised. Aurora DSQL is still very new - the service is only available in two US regions at the moment. It is still missing a lot of features from Postgres and uses an unusual authentication method that involves using a URL-like token to connect to the database.
Skia Canvas is a browser-less implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for Node.js. It produces very similar results to Chrome's canvas element. Skia Canvas is best used on desktop machines that can render hardware-accelerated graphics to a window or on a server where it can output a variety of image formats.
More than half of US workers are watching for or actively seeking a new job. Job satisfaction has fallen to its lowest level in recent years. The cooling job market is causing employees to feel more stuck and frustrated. While employers can worry less about turnover, they risk employee burnout rising if workers feel stuck.
AdGrok's founders received notice that their company was being sued by Adchemy, a former employer, in September 2010. The legal action was not unexpected as the former employer had told them they were unhappy with the founders leaving and starting a new company. AdGrok had gone through Y Combinator. Its relationship with the accelerator program and Sam Altman resulted in the lawsuit being dismissed. Adchemy was attempting to court funding from Microsoft - Altman had a contact at Microsoft tell Adchemy that it would be problematic if the company was embroiled in litigation while discussing the deal, so Adchemy dropped the suit
Amazon recently announced Aurora DSQL, a serverless SQL database designed for the cloud and optimized for transaction processing.
Amazon's new family of multimodal generative AI models includes four text-generating models, an image-generation model, and a video-generation model.
Samsung plans to preview its smart glasses, which will work similarly to Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, in January alongside the Galaxy S25 - the actual release will be in the third quarter of 2025.
Possible contenders for the next platform for job security purposes are PaleoOps, Erlang/Darklang, Fly.io, Serverless/AWS Lambda, and V8 isolates.
Exa crawls the web and encodes the contents of web pages into embeddings that can be processed by large language models.
The acquisition will help bolster Walmart's advertising business.