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OPEN-SOURCE AI CODE EDITOR MODELS REVEALED

An open-source AI code editor was found to be calculating model usage client-side.

BEING RAISED BY THE INTERNET

The open access of online resources has provided this author, along with many others, the skills and confidence needed to escape poverty and build a successful career.

WEB COMPONENTS ARE OKAY

While web components may have limitations, they offer a valuable tool for web dev and open up the creative possibilities of the web.

GITHUB REPO VISUALIZER

A visualizer of various statistics for a GitHub repository using D3.js.

APPLE'S LONG-AWAITED ‘HOMEACCESSORY' COULD HAVE SQUARE DISPLAY, A18 CHIP FOR AI, MORE

Details about Apple's rumored new home accessory have been leaked. The device, codenamed J490, combines the capabilities of the iPad, Apple TV, and HomePod. It will be powered by the A18 chip, presumably to support Apple Intelligence features. The device currently has a squarish display - it is unclear whether the square aspect ratio will make it to the final product. It has a built-in camera that works for FaceTime and other video conferencing apps. The camera can identify hand gestures from a distance and identify users to enable personal requests. More details about the device are available in the article.

STARLINK HITS 4 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS

SpaceX's Starlink satellite network is expected to pass four million customers this week. The company has gained around a million new customers since the end of May. It started providing beta service of its product in October 2020, hitting one million subscribers in December 2022. Its constellation now comprises nearly 6,000 satellites, which service companies and individuals in nearly 100 countries.

STEM CELLS REVERSE WOMAN'S DIABETES — A WORLD FIRST

A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. A year after the transplant, she can now eat sugar and enjoy eating everything. The surgery has completely reversed diabetes in the patient, who previously required substantial amounts of insulin. While the results are positive, they still need to be replicated in more people, and the researchers want to wait five more years before considering the patient as 'cured'.

RADIAN AEROSPACE COMPLETES GROUND TESTS OF PROTOTYPE SPACE PLANE

Radian Aerospace has announced the completion of a series of ground tests for its reusable space plane, which will be able to take off from airfields and land on runways like conventional airplanes. The tests were completed with a subscale prototype flight vehicle. They aimed to generate data on how the vehicle would fly and handle and to compare the data to simulations. While the vehicle did not fly, it did perform a series of small hops. The prototype vehicle is much smaller than the final vehicle, but the data will help inform key pieces of the final design and flight control systems.

POSTGRESQL 17 RELEASED!

PostgreSQL 17 improves on performance and scalability while adapting to emergent data access and storage patterns. It adds significant overall performance gains, including an overhauled memory management implementation for vacuum, optimizations to storage access and improvements for high concurrency workloads, speedups in bulk loading and exports, and query execution improvements for indexes. It also has features that benefit brand-new workloads and critical systems. This article covers the highlights of the new release.

HOTWIRE NATIVE

Hotwire Native is a web-first framework for building native mobile apps. It enables developers to build screens in HTML and CSS and reuse them across every platform. Hotwire Native provides developers with full access to underlying iOS and Android SDKs and APIs as soon as they're released. It allows small teams to build highly functional, beautiful, and sustainable mobile apps without the headache and rigmarole of traditional native development.

WORDPRESS.ORG BANS WP ENGINE, BLOCKS IT FROM ACCESSING ITS RESOURCES

WordPress.org has banned WP Engine from accessing its resources. The ban prevents WP Engine customers from accessing security updates, leaving them vulnerable. WP Engine is now working on fixes. The company claims that WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg is misusing his control of WordPress to interfere with WP Engine's customers' access to WordPress.org.

CRITICAL MASS AND TIPPING POINTS: HOW TO IDENTIFY INFLECTION POINTS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN

The concept of critical mass can be used to understand everything from viral cat videos to why changing habits is so hard. Sometimes, it can seem as if drastic changes happen at random, but there is a logic to these occurrences that can be explained by the concept of critical mass - the point at which something is prevalent enough to grow or sustain a process, reaction, or technology. The concept can help us understand the world around us by letting us spot changes before they occur. A firm understanding can help give people an edge in launching products, changing habits, and choosing investments.

TAILS OS JOINS FORCES WITH TOR PROJECT IN MERGER

GIT ABSORB

git absorb is a port of Facebook's hg absorb, which is a workflow enhancement to version control that automatically folds uncommitted modifications into the appropriate draft ancestor change sets.

OPENAI IN THROES OF EXECUTIVE EXODUS AS THREE WALK AT ONCE

OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, and Research VP Barret Zoph are leaving the company.

BIGGER AI CHATBOTS MORE INCLINED TO SPEW NONSENSE — AND PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS REALIZE

The bigger versions of three major artificial intelligence chatbots are more inclined to generate wrong answers rather than admit ignorance - people aren't great at spotting the bad answers.

REWRITING RUST

The Rust programming language feels like a first-generation product - progress on the language has slowed, with the Rust RFC process now a graveyard of good ideas.

AN INTERVIEW WITH META CTO ANDREW BOSWORTH ABOUT ORION AND REALITY LABS

In this interview, Meta's Chief Technical Officer Andrew Bosworth, who created Facebook's News Feed, built out its ad product, and leads Meta Reality Labs, talks about his history at Meta, Meta's Orion smart glasses, and the competition between Apple and Meta in the space.

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OPENAI'S RESEARCH OFFICER AND VP LEFT THE COMPANY

THE INTELLIGENCE AGE

AI is poised to amplify human capabilities, enabling tasks that seem unimaginable today. Through deep learning and increased computational resources, AI will offer advancements like personal assistants, educational tutors, and healthcare advisors. The focus must remain on making AI accessible and mitigating its risks, paving the way for widespread prosperity in the Intelligence Age.

NOTEBOOKLM CAN PULL FROM YOUTUBE

NotebookLM can now pull audio and video sources and has gained improved sharing of audio artifacts.

PYTHON LIBRARY GENERATION FROM SCRATCH

A cool benchmark for code generation that measures the ability of language models to generate full packages from scratch.

OPTIMIZED QUANTIZATION WITH BITQ

BitQ is a framework that optimizes block floating point (BFP) quantization for deep neural networks on embedded platforms.

SELF-EXPLAINABLE AI

CaBRNet is an open-source framework designed to address challenges in the field of self-explainable AI.

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GOOGLE'S CHIP RL MODELS

Google has released new models, training code, and simulators that generate floor plans for chips using RL.

PREDICTING STREET-VIEW PHOTO LOCATIONS

Researchers have introduced a method that accurately predicts the geolocation of street-view photos by matching them with a database of aerial images.

DATA AUGMENTATION WITH LLMS AND DIFFUSION MODELS

Researchers have introduced a new data augmentation framework that combines large language models and diffusion models to generate diverse yet semantically accurate images in data-scarce scenarios.

HOW STREAMING LLM APIS WORK

A review of HTTP streaming APIs from various LLM providers revealed common patterns. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini all use POST requests, but their implementations differ slightly in response structure and token usage. This article includes examples and code for consuming these streams with tools like curl, Python's HTTPX, and JavaScript Fetch.

OPENAI JUST UNLEASHED AN ALIEN OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY

OpenAI's new o1 models exhibit significant advancements in reasoning capabilities, outperforming existing models like GPT-4o. By employing a refined reinforcement learning approach and enhanced chain-of-thought training, o1-enhanced models can solve complex math and programming tasks with fewer errors. Despite their strengths, these models still struggle with spatial reasoning and tasks requiring long-term contextual understanding.

AI CAN NOW MAKE (SURPRISINGLY GOOD) PODCASTS FROM YOUR WRITING

Google's NotebookLM, an advanced AI tool, now includes an "Audio Overview" feature that generates podcasts summarizing user-uploaded content. Users have praised it for its ability to synthesize complex information into engaging audio discussions. Despite limited promotion, the update is lauded as one of the most impressive practical AI applications since ChatGPT.

VULTR CLOUD ALLIANCE: HIGH-PERFORMANCE AI AND HPC WITH AMD AND VULTR

AMD has partnered with Vultr to integrate AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs into Vultr's cloud infrastructure.

AI STRESSING NETWORKS OUT? NVIDIA AND T-MOBILE ARE USING AI TO FIX IT

Nvidia and T-Mobile are using AI to manage rising network traffic due to increased AI usage in 5G environments.

RABBIT'S WEB-BASED 'LARGE ACTION MODEL' AGENT ARRIVES ON R1 ON OCTOBER 1

Rabbit's CEO Jesse Lyu announced an update for the r1 device, introducing a web-based Large Action Model capable of acting as a generalized web agent.

BOSTON DYNAMICS' SPOT CAN NOW AUTONOMOUSLY UNLOCK DOORS

Boston Dynamics' Spot can now autonomously unlock Assa Abloy's automated doors via Bluetooth.

GENSLER WARNS CRYPTO INDUSTRY 'WILL NOT LONG PERSIST' WITHOUT INVESTOR PROTECTION

SEC Chair Gary Gensler warned that the crypto industry won't survive without stronger investor protections, citing the collapse of major firms like FTX and Three Arrows Capital as evidence of the need for regulation. While reiterating that most cryptocurrencies are securities, he confirmed that Bitcoin remains an exception, emphasizing the importance of trust and disclosure in sustaining the sector.

BITCOIN RALLIES AMID POSITIVE U.S. JOBS DATA AND REPORTS OF MORE CHINA STIMULUS MEASURES

Bitcoin has surged past $65,000, driven by positive U.S. jobs data and expectations of new economic stimulus from China. While these developments have sparked optimism in the market, analysts caution that if Bitcoin fails to hold above this level, it could face significant downward pressure despite the broader stock market rally.

INTRODUCING AMINO

AminoChain, a Layer 2 blockchain protocol focused on connecting enterprise medical institutions, has announced a $5M seed round led by a16z crypto. Its first application is a bio-sample marketplace that enables researchers to license samples from biobanks, with patients benefiting from insights and compensation.

RETRO9000: UP TO $40M IN RETROACTIVE GRANTS FOR AVALANCHE L1S

Avalanche has launched Retro9000, a $40M retroactive grant program aimed at rewarding developers who contribute to the Avalanche testnet and successfully launch Layer 1 blockchains on its mainnet. Funded by the Avalanche Foundation and driven by community votes, the program incentivizes innovation and tool development within the Avalanche ecosystem.

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HYPERLIQUID: THE HYPEROPTIMIZED ORDER BOOK L1 (1 HOUR READ)

Hyperliquid, a perpetual trading protocol with an L1, has become a disruptor in the trading space, with over $300 billion in cumulative volumes and over $1 billion in daily volumes. Its HyperBFT consensus mechanism can handle a substantial amount of orders per second, and its fully onchain order book positions it as an “onchain Binance,” bridging CEX efficiency with DEX transparency. With a comparative valuation of around $5 billion and plans for further development like an EVM-compatible layer, Hyperliquid is poised to capture significant market share in the DeFi derivatives market.

UNDERSTANDING MINIMUM BLOB BASE FEES

Blob space on Ethereum incurs a minimum fee of $0.10 to $3 per blob, with EIP-7762 introducing a hard minimum of 1 cent per blob. This change is expected to increase the average blob cost by nearly 1% and solve the cold start problem where they have been slow to reach the targeted level of demand.