Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has hinted at broader ambitions for the Arm-based CPU within the GB10 Grace Blackwell chip. MediaTek, the chip's co-developer, also has its own aspirations. Huang recently introduced Nvidia's Project Digits at CES 2025. The cutting-edge $3,000 desktop AI supercomputer delivers an impressive 1 petaFLOPS of FP4 floating-point performance, making it a powerful tool for running AI models and workloads for home enthusiasts and researchers.
NASA will need until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return mission will work. The space agency has whittled the options to two: use the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which would employ the sky crane technology to deposit a lander on the surface of the red planet, or use a commercial vendor to get a lander to Mars. The plan relies on the Perseverance trundlebot being able to make it to the lander. The JPL option would cost between $6.6 billion and $7.7 billion, while the commercial providers may cost between $5.8 billion and $7.1 billion. NASA has not provided details on what the commercial vendors suggested due to proprietary information concerns.
The Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xiangshan project aims to use the permissively licensed RISC-V ISA to create a high-performance chip. It has published the designs of its third-generation chip called Kunminghu, a 64-bit RISC-V architecture that supports multiple parallel processing units capable of integer, floating-point, and vector operations. The designs will be available under a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, use, modify, or distribute.
Stagehand is a tool for building browser automations. It offers three simple AI APIs to provide the building blocks for web automation via natural language. Stagehand is fully compatible with Playwright - it makes Playwright more accessible to non-technical users and less vulnerable to minor changes in the UI/DOM. Anything that can be done in a browser can be done with Stagehand.
The web's caching model recently underwent a fundamental shift that challenges many performance optimization assumptions. Browsers traditionally maintained a simple key-value store for cached resources. While efficient, this model leaked information. With the new model, double-keyed caching, browsers use two pieces of information: the top-level site making the request and the resource's URL. It caches identical resources separately for each site that requests them, effectively partitioning the cache and preventing cross-site tracking and other privacy issues - a trade-off between security and efficiency.
StackOverflow received 87,105 new questions in March 2023. This number was reduced to 58,792 by March 2024, and by December it was 25,566. The site is becoming more outdated and questions are being closed more than ever before. StackOverflow was already in decline before ChatGPT's launch. It was just so big that it took years to topple to the ground.
CES has so far been a big show for laptops, gaming, TVs, and smart home tech. This year has had a focus on some trendier emerging categories like AI and AR. This page contains a collection of articles that cover all the news from the event. Some of the highlights from the event include the Razer gaming chair, which heats and cools; a robotic vacuum with arms and legs; Nvidia's Digits supercomputer; and Mirumi, a shy sloth-like robot.
This article looks at the factors that determine engineer status - who gets promoted, who doesn't, who gets assigned the exciting work, and who gets put on maintenance duty.
Broccoli is a robust message queue system for Rust applications that features asynchronous message processing, configurable retry strategies, connection pooling, type-safe message handling, flexible message processing patterns, and more.
Mike Johns, founder and CEO of Digital Mind State, an AI consultancy, recently found himself stuck in a Waymo vehicle circling a parking lot, unable to get out.
Simply open Copilot in your IDE, choose your AI model, and you're good to go with 2,000 code completions + 50 chat messages a month [4], and exactly zero strings attached.
Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation practices due to a shifting political and social landscape and a desire to embrace free speech. The fact checking program will be replaced with a community-driven system. Content moderation policies that reduced the amount of political content in user feeds will be undone. The election was a major influence on Meta's decision - Zuckerberg has criticized governments and legacy media for pushing more and more censorship.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest week in tech each year. This year has so far seen announcements from Samsung, Abbott, and Dell, as well as some new and innovative brands with cool concepts. This article contains a list of the most impressive tech so far, which includes AI-integrated TVs, over the counter continuous glucose monitors, a device that can fully charge a phone in seconds, and a robot vacuum with an arm.
Deep Fission is a nuclear startup that wants to bury small nuclear reactors underground. The depth will act as a substitute for the tons of concrete required to safeguard aboveground reactors. The startup plans to lower its reactors on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile-deep borehole. Any maintenance will require hauling the reactor to the surface, which would take about an hour or two. Deep Fission is targeting between five to seven cents per kilowatt-hour, half of what new nuclear power costs today in the US. It has yet to receive a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The last lander to successfully reach the surface of the Moon's cratered Mare Crisium region was the Soviet Luna 24 probe in August 1976. SpaceX is preparing to launch two landers there on January 15. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lander will carry 10 NASA payloads to the surface. It will collect data using tools designed to measure various particulate compositions, thermal properties, and the electromagnetic activity of both the Moon and the Earth. The other lander, Resilience, is from Japanese spacecraft firm iSpace.
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There are three parts to Google's new Home APIs on Android: the Device and Structure APIs provide a single unified interface to manage and control both cloud-connected and Matter devices across Google Home connected devices, the Commissioning API simplifies device setup, and the Automation API empowers users with tools needed to create and manage home automations directly in apps. All developers can now access the Android version of the Home APIs and test their apps with up to 100 users. iOS will get a public developer beta in the coming months.
Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. AI has made it possible to develop intelligent autonomous agents to act as assistants, co-workers, and coaches. The potential economic value of these agents is enormous. This article provides an overview of agents and the aspects that determine the capabilities of an agent and discusses how to evaluate agents to catch failures. AI-powered agents are still an emerging field with no established theoretical frameworks for defining, developing, and evaluating them.
A key requirement for building a business, securing a key role, or investing in companies is to focus on things that stand the test of time and hopefully improve at doing them at a rate faster than the market. A good way to do this is to find a moat. This article attempts to enumerate all of the possible moats that will still be relevant in the age of AI. It splits them into dead moats, short-term moats, strong moats, and uncertain moats. Businesses should evaluate their moats, use and learn about AI, systematize, move quickly, make strong decisions, and work on their ability to predict the future.
Data repeatedly shows that the San Francisco Bay Area is still the best place for venture-backed startups. Startups in the area received $90 billion of VC investment in 2024, 57% of the global venture funding spent last year. The area has a high density of everything, from financiers to engineers, making it easier to build a startup there. It is the home of Big Tech and offers the largest concentration of skilled tech employees.
Semantic reranking uses a model to assess the semantic similarity of a query and one (or more) documents. Read the technical breakdown and practical implications on the Search Labs blog by Elastic [14].
Moore's Law predicted that the number of transistors on computer chips would roughly double every year, essentially doubling the performance of those chips, but Nvidia's latest data center superchip is more than 30 times faster for running AI inference workloads than its previous generation.
Chinese investors are clawing back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, resulting in some Chinese founders owing millions and ending up on debtor blacklists.
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Nvidia announced a personal AI supercomputer called Digits at CES. It can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. Similar in form to a Mac Mini, Digits has a starting price of $3,000. Each system comes equipped with 128GB of unified, coherent memory. Two systems can be linked together to handle models with up to 405 billion parameters.
CES 2025 is currently being held in Las Vegas. This page contains live updates from the annual consumer tech conference. AI will likely be the focal point of most companies' presentations - AI-powered devices are expected to be covered extensively through the event. Robotics and transportation are also core topics at CES.
The LG UltraGear GX9 45GX990A is a bendable gaming monitor with an ultra-high 5K2K resolution that can accurately depict rich blacks, vibrant colors, and dynamic brightness levels with pinpoint accuracy. It can curve its 45-inch body to 900R curvature, providing a level of immersion that is rarely offered by more conventional monitors. The screen has the performance specs to back up its stylish looks. LG has not released the price or commercial release date for the screen.
Ocean exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the sea floor at depths of up to 200 meters. It is currently developing and testing a small modular habitat called Vanguard that is capable of housing up to three divers for up to a week or so. Vanguard is a steppingstone to a more permanent modular habitat system called Sentinel set to launch in 2027. Deep is aiming for a permanent human presence in the ocean by 2030. Its plans are possible thanks to an advanced 3D printing-welding approach that can print these large habitation structures.
This post contains a summary of a developer's personal experiences using generative models while programming over the last year. The developer currently uses large language models regularly while programming and considers their benefits a net-positive on their productivity. They discovered some often-repeated steps that can be automated and are currently working with a team to build them into a tool specifically for Go programming.
Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. It contains many modern opt-in features that can improve the terminal experience. This article provides a review of Ghostty from a user's point of view. Overall, Ghostty improved the reviewer's setup - while setup took some time, it wasn't a big deal.
Searching for Google on Bing (without signing in) takes users to a page that looks a lot like Google. It's a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query. Other search results return without the special interface. Bing still surfaces search results for Google underneath the spoofed Google UI. Microsoft has used similar tactics over the years to convince people to switch to its products.
Dell is rebranding its laptop and desktop lines for 2025. It has just dropped its longtime model names for more simplified nomenclature. Dell's laptop and PC series will now be simply labeled as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, with base, Plus, and Premium versions of each. The Dell, Dell Plus, and Dell Premium series will be the models previously labeled as either Inspiron or XPS, the Dell Pro series replaces the Latitude line, and the Dell Pro Max will replace the Precision workstation line.
The person was over 65 and reportedly had underlying medical conditions - they were hospitalized with the flu after exposure to a backyard flock of birds and wild birds.
We produce far more materials than we did in the past, yet prices have barely changed, which suggests that we're not close to running out of these materials any time soon.
Apple made the holy grail of remotely attested trusted compute, but its AI is much worse than integrations made with Ollama on the same device, which would be just as private.