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APPLE WATCH WITH ANDROID

Someone successfully used open-source software and interoperable protocols to connect an Apple Watch to their Android phone, bypassing the need for an iPhone for most functions.

12 MODERN CSS ONE-LINE UPGRADES

12 modern CSS properties that can make your life easier, such as stable upgrades like aspect-ratio and object-fit, stable enhancements like text-underline-offset and outline-offset, and progressive enhancements such as overscroll-behavior and scrollbar-gutter.

APPLE COLLABORATES WITH NVIDIA TO RESEARCH FASTER LLM PERFORMANCE

Apple and NVIDIA collaborated to integrate Apple's ReDrafter technology into NVIDIA's TensorRT-LLM, resulting in a 2.7x speedup in large language model text generation on NVIDIA GPUs.

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NVIDIA INTRODUCES DEVICE AIMED AT SMALL COMPANIES, HOBBYISTS FOR AI USE

Nvidia is introducing a $249 version of its Jetson computer, which is essentially a portable brain mostly designed to allow developers of robots, industrial automation, and other hardware to run sophisticated AI computations without connecting to a remote data center. The Jetson lineup makes it easier for small companies, hobbyists, and students to try creating new products that integrate AI functions. The $249 Orin Nano Super nearly doubles the speed and efficiency of the previous device and can process about 70% more computational tasks. Despite trade restrictions, it will be available in China through local distributors.

HIS STARTUP IS NOW WORTH $62 BILLION. IT GAVE AWAY ITS FIRST PRODUCT FREE

Databricks has quietly become one of the fastest-growing startups in Silicon Valley. It is now valued at $62 billion after securing $10 billion from investors. Databricks' software is used by data scientists at some of the US' largest companies to analyze the large volumes of information they collect. CEO Ali Ghodsi says the company's success is thanks to the 'strategic surgeries' he performed to keep the company healthy. This article looks at how Ghodsi turned the company around and made it what it is today.

CHINA ORBITS FIRST GUOWANG INTERNET SATELLITES, WITH THOUSANDS MORE TO COME

The first batch of 10 Internet satellites for China's Guowang megaconstellation launched Monday on the country's heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket. The fleet of up to 13,000 spacecraft will beam low-latency high-speed Internet signals using an architecture similar to SpaceX's Starlink network. China hasn't published many details about the satellites other than their intended use as broadband Internet relay stations. Guowang is managed by a secretive company called China SatNet, which was established by the Chinese government in 2021.

A TRANSPLANTED PIG KIDNEY OFFERS A GRANDMOTHER HOPE FOR LIFE WITHOUT DIALYSIS

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old grandmother from Gadsden, Ala, volunteered to become the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig. Looney's operation took place on November 25 and she seems to be in good condition. While there are some risks to the procedure, such as the organs spreading pig viruses to people, as well as other ethical concerns, the technology may one day provide an unlimited supply of organs for transplantation and save thousands of patients every year.

OPENAI'S API USERS GET FULL ACCESS TO THE NEW O1 MODEL

Application developers now have access to OpenAI's full o1 model through the API. The new API is more accurate in its use of structured outputs and has improvements in its use of internal function calling. The o1 model uses 60% fewer thinking tokens than o1-preview and it generates better results. Access to the $200/month o1 Pro model is promised to be coming soon.

OPENAUTH

OpenAuth is a standards-based auth provider for web apps, mobile apps, single-page apps, APIs, or third-party clients currently in beta. It can be deployed as a standalone service or embedded into existing applications. OpenAuth works with any framework or platform and can be employed on Node.js, Bun, AWS Lambda, or Cloudflare Workers. It comes with a prebuilt themeable UI that developers can customize or opt out of.

“FOUNDER MODE” AND THE ART OF MYTHMAKING

This article presents a deep analysis of 'Founder Mode' from the lens of another CEO. Brian Chesky could have reached a wider audience if he had told his story in a different way. The way he told the story, the problem was always everyone else, and the solution was always more Brian Chesky, while ignoring the fact that Chesky created the problems by being bad at running the business. Being a CEO is hard and making mistakes is expected, but it's important to be able to hold yourself accountable.

KLARNA'S CEO SAYS IT STOPPED HIRING THANKS TO AI BUT STILL ADVERTISES MANY OPEN POSITIONS

While Klarna's CEO says that the company essentially stopped hiring a year ago due to generative AI, the company has not completely stopped hiring. It is currently hiring for more than 50 roles around the globe according to job postings on its website. Klarna managers said that they were actively hiring or growing their teams at least half a dozen times throughout 2024 according to posts on LinkedIn. The company has recently filled roles on its policy, software engineering, and global partnerships teams. A Klarna spokesperson said that the company is not actively recruiting to expand but only backfilling some essential roles.

THE RISE OF THE AI CRAWLER

This post looks at how AI tools crawl and process web content.

CODE ASSIST, GOOGLE'S ENTERPRISE-FOCUSED CODING ASSISTANT, GETS THIRD-PARTY TOOLS

Code Assist can now pull real-time data and access information from outside applications.

BITCOIN SETS ANOTHER ALL-TIME HIGH IN CLIMB TOWARD $110,000

The crypto market has seen large gains as the industry expects a more friendly regulatory environment in the near future.

GRAMMARLY ACQUIRES PRODUCTIVITY STARTUP CODA, BRINGS ON NEW CEO

Coda's CEO and co-founder Shishir Mehrotra will become the new CEO of Grammarly.

PG_INCREMENTAL

pg_incremental is an extension that helps developers perform fast, reliable, incremental batch processing in PostgreSQL.

CHIP CITIES RISE IN JAPAN'S FIELDS OF DREAMS

This article looks at TSMC's activities in Japan.

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NVIDIA'S GENAI SUPERCOMPUTER

NVIDIA has unveiled its most affordable generative AI supercomputer, “Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit”.

OPENAI'S DEVELOPER APIS

OpenAI introduces demo developers and updates APIs.

ARM CEO RENE HAAS ON THE AI CHIP RACE, INTEL, AND WHAT TRUMP MEANS FOR TECH

Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas discusses the rapid evolution of AI and its impact on the chip industry, emphasizing Arm's strategic role in providing architectures for a wide range of applications. He addresses Arm's potential move into designing AI chips, Intel's challenges, and the importance of balancing innovation with geopolitical considerations, especially in China. Haas also highlights Arm's growing presence in AI workloads across various devices, stressing the need for more compute capabilities to support AI's expansion.

A LONG-CONTEXT OPEN-WEIGHT LANGUAGE MODEL

Giraffe introduces a transformer-based architecture capable of processing significantly longer input contexts, pushing the boundaries of context length in open-weight models.

META'S ADAPTIVE CACHING FOR FAST VIDEO GENERATION

40+ YEARS OF SATELLITE DATA FOR ML RESEARCH

The Digital Typhoon Dataset is the longest satellite image dataset for typhoons, spanning over 40 years.

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RETROLLM

RetroLLM is a framework designed for training large language models with retrieval augmentation, enabling more efficient and accurate responses by integrating external knowledge sources during inference.

ITERATION OF THOUGHT FOR BETTER AI RESPONSES

Iteration of Thought (IoT) uses dynamic, thought-provoking prompts to improve LLMs. Unlike existing methods like Chain of Thought (CoT), IoT adapts to the context of each interaction.

A COST-EFFECTIVE ARCHITECTURE WITH TOKENFORMER

TokenFormer is a novel architecture designed to reduce the high computational costs associated with scaling transformer models.

GROK FOR EVERYONE

Grok has a new version and a new efficient model that is available for all users. It also has an improved image generation model and API.

AI WORLD MODELS

World models enable AI systems to simulate and reason about their environments, pushing forward autonomous decision-making and real-world problem-solving.

15 TIMES TO USE AI, AND 5 NOT TO

AI is useful for tasks like idea generation, summarization, and translation where quantity or varied perspectives are needed. It excels when humans can quickly assess AI's output and in tasks where minimal downside exists for errors. AI use can hinder learning or accuracy in high-stakes or unfamiliar situations, requiring careful judgment to balance its utility.

GROK IMAGE GENERATION RELEASE

Grok's new image generation model excels in rendering real-world details, logos, and realistic human portraits.

YOUTUBE'S NEW AUTO-DUBBING FEATURE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR KNOWLEDGE-FOCUSED CONTENT

YouTube's auto-dubbing feature is now available to hundreds of thousands more channels, focusing initially on informational content.

GOOGLE KICKS OFF $20B RENEWABLE ENERGY BUILDING SPREE TO POWER AI

Google signed a $20 billion deal with Intersect Power and TPG Rise Climate to build renewable energy and storage for its data centers.

US LAWMAKERS CANCEL SESSION TO CONSIDER CAROLINE CRENSHAW'S NOMINATION

The Senate Banking Committee has canceled the session to consider SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw's renomination, significantly reducing the likelihood of her confirmation before Republicans take control of the chamber in January 2025. Crenshaw, whose current term expires in June 2025, faces opposition from crypto interest groups who claim she is more anti-crypto than Chair Gary Gensler. She can continue serving for 18 months after her term expires.

US IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA'S CRYPTO LAUNDERING NETWORK

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned two Chinese nationals and a UAE-based front company, Green Alpine Trading, for laundering crypto on behalf of North Korea. North Korea reportedly earns ~50% of its foreign currency through such activities, which include money laundering, fraudulent IT work, and crypto thefts.

STANFORD LAB PARTNERS WITH TEAM BEHIND ‘AI16Z' AI AGENT PROJECT

Eliza Labs, the team behind the popular Eliza framework and ai16z agent, has partnered with Stanford's Future of Digital Currency Initiative through a grant exceeding $250,000 to research trust mechanisms and governance for AI agents. Led by prominent professors David Mazières and Dan Boneh, the lab is researching how to improve AI agent coordination and blockchain computational power, while Eliza continues to improve its agents' capabilities.

SEAMLESS CROSS-CHAIN TRANSFERS WITH RELAY DEPOSIT ADDRESSES

Relay Protocol has launched "Relay Deposit Addresses," enabling users to easily bridge funds across chains by sending them to a designated address - no wallet connection required. This feature supports major tokens across popular chains, automatically handles errors like wrong chain deposits, and simplifies onboarding for both users and developers.

TOWARDS TRUSTED AUTONOMY: ROBOTICS, AI, AND BLOCKCHAIN

An industry report from OpenMind explores how the convergence of robotics, AI, and blockchain technologies could enable truly autonomous, trustworthy machines, with blockchain serving as the infrastructure layer for robot-to-robot and human-robot interactions. It highlights how blockchain can provide secure identity verification, transparent operation logging, and programmable economic incentives for robots, while also addressing key challenges in data privacy, coordination, and trustless verification. The report identifies several emerging trends, including decentralized robotics networks, hardware-level security through TEEs, and crypto-economic incentives for robotic tasks, suggesting that blockchain technology could be essential for scaling autonomous systems while maintaining security and accountability in human-robot interactions.

THE CRYPTOPRENEUR'S DILEMMA

Crypto entrepreneurs must choose between adhering to blockchain's original cypherpunk principles (decentralization, privacy, and self-sovereignty) and adopting more conventional business practices to achieve mainstream success and regulatory compliance. As the industry matures and integrates with traditional finance and business models, the tension is becoming more pronounced. While most projects will likely choose the path of integration and regulation, a critical mass of developers must continue building decentralized systems to preserve blockchain's revolutionary potential.

BASE ECOSYSTEM UPDATE

Base has quickly become one of the fastest growing and largest blockchains, with more 3-month inflows than Solana and leading in many L2 metrics including transactions and stablecoin market cap. The DEX sector is dominated by Aerodrome, while lending markets Morpho, Moonwell, and Aave all remain relatively close in TVL. AI platform Virtuals has become a standout project on the chain and is driving lots of interest and mindshare to Base AI builders.

POLYGON FOUNDER SPEAKS ON AAVE CONTROVERSY

The Polygon community has largely opposed the "Stake the Bridge" (STB) pre-proposal due to unresolved concerns, while allegations of anti-competitive tactics by Aave leadership have sparked criticism.

MONAD LABS REBRANDS TO CATEGORY LABS

After announcing the Monad Foundation, Monad Labs has rebranded to Category Labs.

BASE DEPOSITS CONTINUE RAPID GROWTH

Base users have increased their deposits in Base applications from ~$300M to $4B this year, highlighting significant ecosystem growth.

WEB3 STARTUPS RAISE OVER $5.4B THROUGH Q3'24

As Web3 startups have raised over $5.4B since Q3 of this year, Cointelegraph accelerator participants will look to pitch their startups (DeFi, Payments, etc.).

PRIVACY CONCERNS OVER $PENGU AIRDROP CLAIM

Claiming $PENGU tokens may compromise anonymity, as the public API reveals linked Ethereum wallets for Solana claims.