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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in the U.S. antitrust case against Google, claiming Google's dominance in internet search is maintained through unfair tactics, including default agreements with Apple. Despite investments in AI and new features for Bing, Microsoft struggles to break Google's market stronghold. Nadella hinted that even with AI advancements, changing default habits might remain challenging.
SDXL is a state of the art image generation model. It is powerful, but slow. Google and HuggingFace showcase just how fast it can be on the new TPU chips in Google's research language Jax.
The recent work on registers for ViTs showed that adding a [reg] token fixes image attention map spikes. This work shows that adding a series of learnable [pause] tokens prepended to the sequence improves language model reasoning (decoder only, up to 1B) by as much as 18%. The intuition is that this adds a number of learnable and manipulatable vectors to store important global information to be used while generating the sequence. In general, adding tokens has scaled well past 13B parameters, but it's unclear how well this works at frontier model scale.
Think of LLMs like big, intricate puzzles with pieces of knowledge. This paper looks at what happens if we try to change some of those pieces - it could either mess up the whole puzzle or make it unclear.
Imagine a model that not only understands and writes text but can also create matching pictures. This new model, MiniGPT-5, uses special techniques called "generative vokens" to do that.
This paper studies how LLMs might work together in groups, just like people in a society. Researchers have made computer "societies" with different personalities and watched them team up on tasks, finding they sometimes act like humans - like following the majority or debating - and some teams work better than others.
A platform shift alters the foundational layer of application development, influencing company dominance, architectures, and business models. Given its potential to change distribution and expand possibilities, AI is poised to become a significant platform shift, challenging existing structures and introducing new paradigms.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced it would be rolling out new blockchain-enabled features to improve operational efficiency on Stock Connect, an arm of HKEX that gives international investors access to mainland China equities. The product HKEX is rolling out to accomplish this is called “Synapse”. Synapse will be used to track and record the settlement of trades on Stock Connect, which should help make the process of recording trade settlement, a slow and complicated process, much more efficient.
Anchorage Digital has partnered with cryptocurrency SMA platform Eaglebrook Advisors to streamline financial advisors' access to regulated crypto investments. The collaboration fulfills the SEC’s definition of a “qualified custodian” for safeguarding client assets, which enables asset managers to launch their SMA strategies on Anchorage Digital. The move is timely following the SEC's custody proposal and the industry’s exploration of spot crypto ETFs.
OpenSea, once the largest NFT marketplace in the crypto ecosystem, has faced challenging times after being unseated by rival marketplace Blur last year. In addition to dwindling secondary trading volume, the company has also seen diminished usage of its minting feature over time. In response to this and the success of other minting platforms like Zora, OpenSea has launched a “no-code” studio, enabling creators to set up and drop an NFT collection on their choice of supported chains without any technical experience or third-party assistance.
Former Resy and Eater Co-Founder Ben Leventhal is looking to revolutionize loyalty programs with his new restaurant loyalty platform, Blackbird. Blackbird, fresh off a $24m Series A funding round led by a16z, offers restaurateurs creative ways to reward their most loyal patrons via paid memberships, merch, and earned perks. The company is incorporating crypto into the platform with its own cryptocurrency that can be used to buy items from participating restaurants. Only a few months in, Blackbird is off to a hot start: it has raised a total of $35m, put together a team of 20 employees, and has signed 80 restaurants onto the platform.
NFTs as we know them have mostly been static collectors’ items, but developers are beginning to experiment with NFTs whose properties can change. Called Dynamic NFTs, they rely on algorithmic or user-based input to change. Their potential uses range from gaming and art to avatar creation and brand engagement. However, questions of practical implementation remain.
Synthetix's Perps V3 Testnet Competition, currently underway, is not only testing features of the perpetual futures market but also a new pattern for consuming oracle data, ERC-7412. This pattern creates a pull oracle system that allows secure, signed, off-chain data to be consumed on-demand for time-sensitive operations like trade prices. Some technical considerations are still being ironed out. This blog post walks through what price oracles are, some of the precursors to this new standard, and how this new standard works.
Hong Kong-based crypto venture firm, CMCC Global, has raised $100 million for a new venture, Titan Fund, that targets Asian crypto startups. More than 30 investors, including Winklevoss Capital, Jebsen Capital, and Block.one participated. The fund will provide equity investment in early-stage crypto startups, prioritizing the Hong Kong market. It has already made five investments, including in Hong Kong companies Mocaverse and Terminal 3.
This article explores the ongoing debate on monolithic versus modular blockchain technologies. Both technologies will likely find success, offering different benefits for various uses. Monolithic chains will be suitable for universal applications and attract users with in-built features and cheaper costs. On the other hand, modular chains provide more control and customization, likely attracting 'superapps'. This could mean there could be one dominant monolithic chain for general use and an interoperable ecosystem of modular chains for specific use cases.
This thread offers practical advice for struggling founders to navigate financial challenges by either attempting to sell the company or raise a round of funding.
This article goes into deep detail about some of the fraudulent activity occurring in Eastern European countries by “crypto” companies.
This thread explains how NFTs as we know them are like 90s websites but are evolving to resemble modern apps with enhanced functionality. In the future, NFTs will interlink on-chain objects, which could enhance the overall blockchain experience.
Framer is rolling out new features that allow users to tailor website content to many languages and regions. Its AI-powered Localization covers text, UI controls, images, and CMS Variables. A video summarizing the new functionality is available.
Google is launching emoji reactions on its Gmail service. The feature can be accessed via a new button next to Reply, Reply All, and Forward. It will first be available to Android users and come to web and iOS users over the next few months.
Canva, as part of its 10th-anniversary celebration, has launched Magic Studio, an AI-powered design suite aiming to make content creation more accessible for everyone. The suite includes features like Magic Switch for effortless design format transformations, Magic Media for text-to-video conversion, and various photo editing tools.
It costs energy to capture and store every email we send. The way to climate-friendly emails is to send less of them, optimize static assets, use AI sparingly, design emails for dark mode, use content delivery networks (CDNs), and measure the carbon footprint of each email.
How information is presented shapes people's perceptions and decisions. Most pricing psychology principles rely on the Framing Effect and its related cognitive biases — anchoring, social proof, default bias, and loss aversion. The same price in a different context can lead to different purchase behaviors.
Although it can be done, text editing on mobile isn't ok. The mobile user experience of manipulating text overloads the tap gesture with a wide range of actions, making it overly complicated and prone to errors. There are workarounds like text handles, magnifiers, text selectors, and popup menus, but none of them offers an equivalent desktop experience.
Charts CSS uses CSS utility classes to style HTML elements as charts. This open-source framework follows a semantic structure, is highly customizable, and is built for responsiveness. Several chart elements are available, like percentage columns, stacked columns, bar charts, and more.
EmojiGen is an AI open-source emoji generator. Type what you need and download a PNG version ready to be used as an emoji.
Higher UX maturity increases customer satisfaction. Loyalty drives higher ROI on digital products, enhances brand reputation, streamlines the decision-making process, attracts and retains talent, increases the time-to-market, improves collaboration, establishes a proactive approach to problem-solving, and future-proofs the organization.
Understanding where automated tests fall short is the first step for planning your efforts to truly cover accessibility. Some of the jobs that need to be handled by humans include focus states, autocomplete, tap target areas, zoomed-in interfaces, animations, and overall confusing UX.
DesignOps lives in the intersection between creativity and scalability. Design operations strategically coordinate people and processes to improve design outcomes while providing the necessary tools, techniques, and collaboration frameworks.
Katie Smith is a master at bringing unique and bold characters to life. In this interview, she shares her process, how to find inspiration, and why illustration is the perfect medium for communicating joy and fun.
Robin Stummvoll, an industrial designer and luthier, just released his newest creation, a Cosmo electric guitar with an innovative, adaptable pickup system. These magnetic pickups effortlessly attach to the guitar's steel body, giving guitar players a whole universe of sonic options as they position them how they prefer.
A practical guide to building sophisticated animations for the web and overcoming three main challenges when doing so.
Meta has introduced its first-gen AI features for advertisers, enabling them to create backgrounds, adjust images, and generate multiple versions of ad text based on their original content. These tools aim to assist brands and businesses, with early results suggesting they could save advertisers up to one month per year in work hours.
The main insight from this analysis of 250,000 EN keyword search results is that large media companies own content-focused websites that achieve first-place rankings 86.1% of the time, while independent site owners attain just 13.9%, despite being more numerous in the dataset. The article also covers 7 other insights from the data and a top-20 list of domains by ranking dominance.
This post is a reminder to remove irrelevant fields on forms that create more friction for potential customers to convert. Common fields that should be removed are phone numbers and emails you don't actually need, a superfluous "how did you hear about us" question, a checkbox only sales or legal understands, and a vague and confusing CTA button.
Many marketers worry that deleting content will harm topical authority and SEO performance. However, deleting content that isn’t ranking or generating traffic is probably the right call. If you have pages on your website that don't contribute to your traffic profile, then you very likely don't have the topical authority to rank for that term. And if that’s the case, those pages are just wasting crawl budget.
This document is a consolidation of 100 quotes or “gems” that Sylvain Gauchet, a growth marketer at Babbel, collected from hundreds of marketing videos and podcast episodes. It features quotes from over 70 growth experts—from CMOs to product marketers to UA leads— on branding, organic and paid acquisition, onboarding and activation, and retention marketing.
Marketers spend 80% less on direct marketing costs when they understand the specific events that get users to enter the buying journey. This guide covers when B2B and B2C buying triggers are likely to occur, a list of tools to track triggers, and examples of how brands have been actioning on buying triggers.
This post walks through 14 content marketing case studies from the past year, exploring the content strategy behind each of them. Examples include Exploding Topics, which created hundreds of list posts for industry trends to naturally highlight the product’s capabilities, and GoPro, which runs “challenges” to engage users and generate UGC.
This post shares how the rock band, Hundredth, used the 10-slide Instagram carousel for long-form storytelling through static imagery. It breaks down slide by slide how the band used a combination of graphics and copy to bring their curated anecdotes alive. The author also shares a few other trends with carousels for brands to consider.
A North Star Metric is a single metric meant to create focus, but it is commonly misidentified. This post gives real world examples.
This cheat sheet explains how to craft a message for each customer stage (demand generation, demand capture, and value delivery).
This study explores how Cracker Barrel is struggling to address multiple customer segments as its target demographic shrinks.
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This article explores how to leverage the features of PostgreSQL to turn it into a fully featured, efficient caching service. By doing so, you can eliminate the need to operate and manage an additional service for a single task. While the performance may not match that of specialized cache services, the extent of performance degradation will vary based on your data type and usage patterns. The article also offers a set of queries to assist you in assessing system performance.