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Apple plans to shift the focus of mobile Safari's search experience to AI search engines. Searches in Safari fell for the first time ever last year due to people increasingly using large language model-based solutions. Google and Apple shares dropped after Apple's plans were revealed as investors fear that the deal that makes Google the default search engine may not last. It is unlikely an AI search engine will become the default as the technology still needs to improve, particularly when it comes to indexing.
Stripe is launching USDC and USDB accounts in 101 countries. The new stablecoin-funded accounts will help Stripe facilitate cross-border transactions between businesses. The accounts will also support balances held in British pounds, euros, and US dollars. Stripe has also announced a profiles feature to help businesses find each other and verify their identities and a tool to make it easy for developers to embed artificial intelligence agents into their products.
Amazon's new warehouse robot has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle jobs previously only done by humans. Vulcan has an innovative gripper that can manipulate 75% of the one million unique items in inventory at Amazon's Spokane warehouse. Vulcan will not be used to replace people - Amazon will create new, higher-skilled jobs. The robot can handle items up to 8 pounds and operate for 20 hours a day.
Elementl Power has signed an agreement with Google to develop three project sites for advanced reactors. Each site will generate at least 600 megawatts of power capacity. Google will have the option to buy the power once the sites are up and running. Elementl has yet to choose the type of reactor it will use. It plans to choose the reactor technology that's furthest along in development when it is ready to begin construction.
Figma Make is an artificial intelligence feature that automates the process of building websites and applications. It will be available starting at $16 per person per month when purchased annually - there is no free tier. The tool uses Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet model. It is currently being tested. There is no information on when it will be released.
Many of today's best practices were drawn from long-established internet companies like Google. However, the problem with copying its current practices on the basis of its success is that most of those companies found near-invincible business models, and so almost any practice developed or selected at random likely would continue to be successful to some degree. The practices and cultures that have developed at these companies more often reflect optimizations for the benefit of various decision makers rather than optimizations for actually creating something great. The qualities that make a good engineer are often the same ones that create good engineering organizations - both start with deep understanding as the basis for innovation and recognize that vision and engineering are often deeply intertwined and mutually informative rather than linear.
Zac Townsend was an Associate Partner at McKinsey. This post talks about the reasons he joined the company, his time there, the projects he worked on, and the lessons he learned from the experience. After working there for three years, Townsend learned that it is impossible to fix institutions that have gotten too big - there are too many people, too many processes, and too much regulatory overhang. This led him to create his own company.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are inherently probabilistic, which means you have to add evaluation frameworks, human-in-the-loop processes, and design for graceful failure, using LLMs for probabilistic guidance rather than deterministic answers. Unlike with traditional software, there is no way to get better at using AI than using AI - there is no substitute for trial and error. This makes it hard to predict development and makes building future-proof technology almost impossible. While software is inexpensive to distribute once written, LLMs have continued costs.
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ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server.
The US government is attempting to prove that Meta violated competition laws, but new evidence shows that Meta had identified TikTok as a major competitor several years ago.
This article discusses GPU utilization with a focus on neural network inference workloads.
Users will be able to watch shows or movies right away, add them to their list of saved things to watch, and share clips with friends.
Applications are 'stringly typed' when type information is available, but systems or functions are called based on strings or stringified data.
Apple has requested a stay on a court injunction that requires the company to allow developers to link to alternative payment methods in their apps.