The first automatic landing system was used in 1965. Now, nearly 60 years later, Brazil's Embraer, the world's third-largest aircraft manufacturer, is introducing a similar technology for takeoffs. The E2 Enhanced Take Off system improves safety, range, and takeoff weight, allowing planes that use it to travel further. It enables planes to take off as early as possible, and more steeply, without ever incurring a tail strike. Embraer has started flight testing the system with the aim of getting it approved by aviation authorities by 2025.
The shift away from permissive open source licensing has motivated the majority of Redis users to consider alternatives. Many are considering or testing Valkey, a fork of Redis managed by the Linux Foundation and backed by AWS, Google, Oracle, and others that was prompted by the decision to switch licenses. Redis claims the decision to change licenses was made to prevent AWS and Google from charging for Redis in their database services without paying for it. It anticipated the fork, as it was exactly what Amazon did with Elasticsearch, but the company believes it is better for them to be able to innovate freely without the fear of its code being taken by cloud service providers and resold.
This post provides a guide on how not to maintain an open source project, highlighting mistakes that open source projects make that discourage contributors from helping. These mistakes include using source control mechanisms other than git, only accepting patches through email, requiring a contributor license agreement, ignoring detailed reports, and prioritizing features over bugs. Making it easier for people to contribute makes people more likely to want to contribute.
This article looks at Jony Ive's work post-Apple and his plans for the future. Ive has quietly accumulated nearly $90 million worth of real estate on a single city block in San Francisco. The purchases began early in the pandemic when many tech luminaries were fleeing the city. He has turned the buildings into home bases for his projects, one for his agency's work on automotive fashion, and travel products and another for a new artificial intelligence device company he is developing with OpenAI.
Balaji Srinivasan is a serial tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who believes that tech can do pretty much everything governments currently do, but better. His vision of a network state involves forming communities on the internet that acquire land and become physical countries with their own laws, existing alongside existing nation states and eventually replacing them altogether. These network states would allow people to choose their nationality and become citizens of the state of their choice. This article looks at the network state movement and how it plans to replace governments with companies.
Elf Labs is producing the next generation of blockbusters/toys/content featuring the highest-grossing characters ever - with patented Web3 VR/AI and characters that generated $40+BN.
AI will add value but it will not result in an order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity and will not replace the need for software developers or high-level languages.
Zoom's CEO says that the company has been granting a significant amount of shares each year, which has led to a very high dilution, so it must proactively reduce the number of shares it issues.
This guide was missed in the excitement of OpenAI's new reasoning models. It shows how prompting this new model is different and requires simpler prompts and a more structured input context.
Jony Ive is collaborating with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on a new AI hardware project. The venture could raise $1 billion by year-end and involves key former Apple designers. Specifics of the device remain undetermined, but it aims to leverage generative AI for advanced user interactions.
Much work has been done to generalize pretrained image diffusion models into niche depth estimators and other image conditional models. This work found that by simplifying the problem and fixing a small bug, researchers were able to get substantially improved performance with less training compute.
Deepmind has released a paper that shows promise, even if the actual results aren't state-of-the-art. It shows a reinforcement learning paradigm that can be used to help models self-correct when generating math and code.
Simple yet powerful tool to label, embed, and classify unlabeled text at the command line. It also works on streams which gives it the ability to receive piped input from other sources.
The highly funded real-time assistant voice startup showed off its impressive tech a few months ago. It has now released a detailed technical report and several model artifacts including code and model weights.
Solar Pro is a 22B language model that can fit on a single 80GB GPU. The goal of this project is to make the most powerful model that can run on a single device.
Sparse Autoencoders are the number one tool used today to understand the internals of language models. This post explores the intuitions behind the models and some good information on how they work.
With Earth's population projected to grow 2bn in the next two decades, high-quality affordable housing has never been greater in demand. But it has remained the most elusive part of the American dream - until now [4].
The SEC has approved the listing and trading of options for BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF, iShares Bitcoin Trust, on the Nasdaq. This move demonstrates further mainstream acceptance of crypto, providing institutional investors and traders with more tools to manage and increase their exposure to bitcoin.
Vice President Kamala Harris made her first mention of the crypto industry at a recent Wall Street fundraising event. She hopes to build an ‘opportunity economy' by encouraging the innovation of technologies like AI and digital assets. Polymarket currently gives Harris a 52% chance of winning the presidency.
Securitize, a leader in tokenizing RWAs, has partnered with Wormhole to improve multichain interoperability for all its tokenized assets. This collaboration enables seamless movement of assets across different blockchain ecosystems, improving liquidity and broadening access to compliant digital asset ecosystems for asset issuers and holders.
An initial version of Jump Crypto's Solana validator, Firedancer, is live under the “Frankendancer” name. Firedancer will be Solana's second independent validator client, aiming to allow for incredibly high throughput. There is a lot of excitement around the potential of Firedancer for both decentralization and performance improvements.
Even though account abstraction has been pushed for years, there's been minimal progress towards an ideal user experience. That being said, cost reductions from L2s and smart contract wallets like Privy and Coinbase's Smart Wallets are becoming the norm for consumer crypto apps. Once concepts like MagicSpend++, which allows users to spend their Coinbase balance directly onchain, become commonplace, the cost-to-rewards ratio for introducing account abstraction will make more sense for developers.
Intelligent DeFi, powered by EigenLayer's Actively Validated Services, allows for trustless offchain compute and data integration. This paradigm can solve gas constraints and a lack of real-time adaptability by utilizing coprocessors for complex computations and secure data inputs. Potential applications include advanced risk management, personalized lending, compliant privacy solutions, and AI-driven yield optimization.
Moody's first report on decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) highlights its potential to improve network scalability and innovation but warns that unclear regulations and substantial hurdles could decrease its widespread adoption. Using Helium as an example of promising progress, the report highlights growing industry attention, despite significant challenges like regulatory ambiguity and cybersecurity risks.
Token 2049 showed a vibrant crypto scene, with over 600 side events demonstrating the industry's fragmentation and the fierce competition among VC-funded projects for attention. Key debates included the battle between Solana and Ethereum for dominance, the resurgence of alt-L1s, and the shift in strategic focus among blockchain networks from B2C to B2B services, which indicates a bearish outlook for token holders but potential gains for equity investors.
Decentralized exchange aggregator Jupiter has acquired SolanaFM, a blockchain explorer, and Coinhall, a trading terminal for Solana and Cosmos blockchains, to enhance its data and infrastructure capabilities.
The International Monetary Fund staff have proposed a four-part REDI framework covering Regulation, Education, Design, and Incentives to facilitate the global adoption of CBDCs.
Figma's new AI feature enables users to convert content from FigJam boards into structured Figma Slides, making organizing brainstorming and research sessions easier. Users can select key elements from any FigJam board they have edit permission for and create a presentation based on specific parts like pages, diagrams, or sticky notes.
Microsoft is revamping its product illustrations to enhance visual engagement. It is shifting from flat, vector-based designs to more playful 3D visuals with skeuomorphic elements. The new style incorporates shapes from the Fluent design language, with a saturated color palette and expressive, natural contours. This update also aims to better align illustrations with accompanying text.