Many people believe that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), and fully general humanoid robotics are just around the corner. We are at the cusp of a revolution poised to increase GDP by many times over. While nearly everyone will benefit substantially from the widespread use of AGI, a tiny minority will increase their productivity by a factor of hundreds or thousands. This creates the potential for out-of-equilibrium economic shifts.
Referral traffic from ChatGPT to websites is down 52% since July 2021. Wikipedia, Reddit, and Tech Radar account for 22% of all citations. Branded websites are losing visibility and millions of potential referable clicks as ChatGPT now seems to favor a handful of 'answer-first' sources. Brands that don't provide real answers could be squeezed out of ChatGPT answers.
Allowing other businesses to tap into its data centers and physical infrastructure could potentially create a new revenue line that could offset some of OpenAI's immense costs.
try allows users to instantly navigate through all of their experiment directories with fuzzy search, smart sorting, and auto-dating without any configuration or dependencies.
REDIS FOUNDER SALVATORE SANFILIPPO is virtually joining CEO ROWAN TROLLOPE to kick off Redis Released in San Francisco on Sept. 4 [4]—with a live keynote on how context engineering is shaping the agentic era.
Meta is splitting its AI division into four groups. One will focus on AI research, one on 'superintelligence', another on product, and one on infrastructure. The reorganization is likely to be the final one for some time. It is aimed at better organizing the company so it can get to its goal of superintelligence and develop AI products more quickly to compete with others.
Apple looks to be set to debut a big software upgrade for AirPods Pro 2 at its iPhone 17 event. The upgrade will implement Live Translation, which should enable real-time conversations with people who speak other languages. The arrival of the AirPods Pro 3 is taking longer than expected.
Bill Gates and the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative have launched a global competition that aims to accelerate Alzheimer's disease research using AI. The winning AI tool will be publicly available for researchers worldwide. AI has the potential to revolutionize the pace and scale of dementia research. Gates announced the initiative in November 2020, just months after his father died from the disease at age 94.
Google and Kairos Power plan to deploy an advanced nuclear power plant connected to the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) electric grid by 2030. The TVA has agreed to purchase up to 50 megawatts of power from the reactor. Kairos' Hermes 2 reactor will help power Google's data centers in Montgomery County, Tennessee, and Jackson County, Alabama. Kairos and Google will bear the financial risk associated with building the project, while the TVA will provide the revenue stream the plant needs to operate through the power purchase agreement.
This developer wanted a map that showed places they have already been in a visually pleasing way. They also wanted a way to share live locations. This post discusses how they built a tool to do just that.
Twick is an AI-powered video editing toolkit. It features a canvas timeline, drag-and-drop editing, AI captions, and serverless MP4 export. Twick contains a collection of packages for individual and image manipulation built with modern web technologies. It is perfect for building custom video apps.
US companies have invested between $35 to $40 billion in generative AI initiatives, and so far have almost nothing to show for it. Only 5% of organizations have successfully integrated AI tools into production at scale. Confidence in AI initiatives is declining among corporate leaders. The divide is due to the inability of AI systems to retain data, adapt, and learn over time, rather than insufficient infrastructure, learning, or talent.
Sam Altman told reporters in San Francisco last week that GPT-6 will arrive faster than the gap between GPT-4 and GPT-5. The model will adapt to users, allowing people to create chatbots that mirror personal tastes. Altman says he sees memory as the key to making ChatGPT truly personal. OpenAI has been working closely with psychologists to help shape the product.
New SSL/TLS certificates will expire every 47 days by 2029 - companies that adopt early will gain competitive advantages through more robust, automated infrastructure.
Wyoming's stablecoin, issued in partnership with LayerZero, will operate across Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, along with Ethereum scaling networks Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base.
The Great Firewall of China exhibited anomalous behavior between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 Beijing Time on August 20 that caused massive disruption of the Internet connections between China and the rest of the world.
Agentic transformation is redefining work with autonomous AI agents [4] that act with memory, context, and adaptability. But without trust, orchestration, and human oversight, these systems risk compliance gaps, runaway costs, and decisions you can't explain.
Tesla has launched the Model YL in China starting at 339,000 Chinese Yuan, or about $47,000 USD. The model YL is a larger Model Y with six seats and a range of 751 kilometers. The vehicle has up to 2,539 liters of storage space and electric armrests in the second-row seats. Deliveries are expected in September. Images of the new version of the Model Y are available in the article.
Apple is expected to release its iPhone 17 lineup on September 9 along with updates for the Apple Watch and AirPods. There are many rumors circulating, including bigger screens and improved cameras for the iPhone 17 range and the introduction of an ultra-thin iPhone Air model. This article rounds up the news and rumors so far about the devices Apple plans to release in the coming weeks.
The Humanoid Robot Games was a three-day event held in Beijing that featured more than 280 teams from universities and private companies in 16 countries. The games included soccer matches, sprints, kickboxing matches, and many other sports. China is trying to make rapid advancements in robotics, and the games were a test of cutting-edge advancements in robotics technology. They revealed limitations, but also possibilities - despite some falls, significant progress is being made in robot locomotion and balance.
We know that a single yeast cell weighs about 100 picograms and a single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram. While we now have devices that can measure individual cells with femtogram precision, scientists decades ago had to make do with whatever was already in the lab. The weight of an individual yeast cell was first measured with little more than a microscope, sugar water, and a camera. Measuring E. coli required a completely different strategy. This post looks at these early experiments to show how phenomena that seem difficult to measure can be overcome through mathematics and first principles thinking.
Clerk M2M tokens are now available in Public Beta. M2M tokens are designed to authenticate requests between different machines within your backend infrastructure. Try it today & give us your feedback [10].
ClickHouse completely rebuilt its full-text search to be faster, leaner, and fully native to the columnar database design. This article explains the new design, which enables high-performance search without having to leave the database. The new native text index makes search in ClickHouse fast, precise, and fully integrated. It allows users to run complex searches with the same efficiency as analytical queries.
EloqKV is a fully featured key-value database that supports both pure in-memory caching mode and durable transactional mode. It has a Redis/ValKey compatible API that preserves Redis' simplicity and usability and offers features like ACID transactions, full elasticity and scalability, tiered storage, and session-style transaction syntax. EloqKV is a decoupled, distributed database built on Data Substrate. Each EloqKV instance includes a frontend deployed together with the core TxService to handle data operations.
Minh Le created Counter-Strike from his dorm room at Simon Fraser University, a public research school just outside Vancouver, British Columbia. The game, officially released in the fall of 2000 by Valve Corporation, spawned half a dozen sequels and an esports vertical that continues to generate billions from the sales of cosmetic weapon skins. It has influenced decades of shooters and is arguably one of the most important video games ever made. Counter-Strike's influence is vast nearly 25 years later - even Call of Duty has offered a bomb defusal mode lifted straight out of Counter-Strike.
Group projects suck, but they give students opportunities to run into human problems in a safer environment. We are all just people with our own biases, blinded to our own faults. Growing up means learning to question ourselves while still trusting ourselves. By reflecting on ourselves, little by little, we become better people.
The 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2, available now for $40, is a 720p IPS multi-touch screen with mounting holes on the back to make it easy to build integrated all-in-one devices.
Current and former OpenAI employees who spent at least two years in the company may have the opportunity to sell approximately $6 billion worth of shares to an investor group that includes Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., and Dragoneer Investment Group. The deal would value OpenAI at $500 billion. Talks for the deal are still in an early stage, and the size of the sale could still change. The sale will allow OpenAI employees a chance to get cash-rich amid a high-stakes talent war in the artificial intelligence industry.
Several ex-Palantir employees are now founders at some of the buzziest startups in Silicon Valley. These founders lean on other ex-Palantir executives and engineers for support and financing. Palantir is a data analysis firm that works with the US military and intelligence agencies. Some venture capital funds' only mission is to invest in companies founded by people with Palantir experience. This article looks at the so-called Palantir mafia and the companies they have started.
SpaceX has received launch approval for the 10th full-scale test flight of its Starship rocket. The launch is scheduled for no earlier than August 24 at 6:30 pm local time in Texas. Starship's record in 2025 so far has not been great, with four failed test flights and the explosion and destruction of another Starship vehicle during a ground test in June. A good outcome on the text Starship test flight will give SpaceX footing to continue to step forward on its roadmap.