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TESLA SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE ELON MUSK'S $1 TRILLION PAY PACKAGE

Tesla shareholders have voted to approve a plan to motivate Elon Musk with a bonus of as much as $1 trillion in additional stock. Musk had threatened on social media to leave the company if the measure was rejected. He claimed he wanted a big enough ownership stake in Tesla so that he couldn't be fired, so the 'robot army' he is developing doesn't fall into the wrong hands. The new pay package includes 12 chunks of stock that could give Musk control of as much as 25% of Tesla if he hits a series of milestones in the next decade.

GOOGLE'S IRONWOOD TPUS REPRESENT A BIGGER THREAT THAN NVIDIA WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE

Google's latest generation of Ironwood accelerators will become generally available in the coming weeks. The TPU v7 accelerators are a major leap in performance over prior generations. They offer performance close to Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, when normalizing floating point perf to the same precision. The TPUs can be scaled into truly enormous compute domains - Google is offering the chips in pods of 256 up to 9,216.

THE UAE IS WINNING THE RACE TO SEQUENCE AN ENTIRE COUNTRY'S DNA

The UAE's Emirate Genome Programme started six years ago with the goal of mapping the genetic code of all of the nation's around one million citizens. The country believes that gene sequencing is both a public-health project and a key part of the country's multitrillion-dollar effort to refashion itself from a petrostate into an AI powerhouse. The project has already collected DNA samples from more than 750,000 Emirates. Efforts to pair AI with genomic data have yet to yield profitable drugs, but many believe they will soon.

AI TURNS BRAIN SCANS INTO FULL SENTENCES AND IT'S EERIE TO SAY THE LEAST

'Mind captioning' is a method developed at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Japan that uses a blend of brain images and AI to generate text descriptions of what people are seeing (or even visualizing) based only on their neural patterns. In tests, the system was able to correctly describe scenes viewed by participants about half the time, even when presented with a hundred possibilities - and even when participants were just visualizing the scenes in their mind. The technology is still far from being a mind-reading device, but it could have serious ethical implications when it becomes more capable.

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YOU SHOULD WRITE AN AGENT

Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract, but others you really need to try before you understand them. Regardless of whether or not LLM agents are snake oil or not, it's worth learning how to make one - startups are raising millions building agents at a time when nobody really knows anything yet. It's easy to get started. This post walks readers through how to create an agent.

DEAD FRAMEWORK THEORY

As large language models become more dominant, new frameworks will find it hard to gain traction because the models won't have enough training data about them. The industry needs to innovate and build new frameworks, libraries, and platform features to push the web forward and create competition. Developers need to have clear strategies to get their work into the LLM training corpus, system prompts, and developer minds. If the industry continues its current focus on maintainability and developer experience, we'll end up in a world where the web is built by LLMs using only what is entrenched in the training data.

GAME DESIGN IS SIMPLE, ACTUALLY

This post presents a deconstructive view on how games are designed. It presents twelve aspects of game design to help readers get better at making games of any type. Each of the topics is deep, and there are plenty of links for further reading. The fun of making games is always right outside the edge of what the designers know.

OPENAI RACES TO QUELL CONCERNS OVER ITS FINANCES

HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE THE EASY FIX

An easy fix is a pragmatic step forward that delivers value immediately - it can always be refactored later.

MICROSOFT LAYS OUT AMBITIOUS AI VISION, FREE FROM OPENAI

Microsoft's new MAI Superintelligence Team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, will put human interests and guardrails first, creating systems that are aligned to human values by default.

META REPORTEDLY PROJECTED 10% OF 2024 SALES CAME FROM SCAM, FRAUD ADS

Meta shows users an estimated 15 billion 'higher risk' scam ads every day.

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HOW TO MAKE ANDROID NOTIFICATIONS 100% RELIABLE

Advice on making Android notifications perfectly reliable from a developer with years of real-world experience building apps with zero notification failure reports.

TESLA TO BEGIN CYBERCAB PRODUCTION IN APRIL, MUSK CLAIMS

The Cybercab, which won't have pedals, a steering wheel, or side mirrors, will be starting production in April at Tesla's factory in Austin, Texas.

WHATSAPP FINALLY LETS YOU MESSAGE PEOPLE ON OTHER APPS

The new feature will likely be locked to certain regions, so it probably won't be made available to those outside of Europe.