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Felafax is a framework for continued-training and fine-tuning of open source large language models using the XLA runtime. It takes care of the runtime setup while providing a Jupyter notebook to get started. The project aims to build the infrastructure to make it easier to run AI workloads on non-Nvidia hardware. Felafax is easy-to-use, easy-to-configure, and easy-to-scale.
Mark Zuckerberg recorded a podcast about artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and how he outmaneuvered the rest of Silicon Valley to keep his company winning at a live event with more than 6,000 attendees who paid $50 or more for a ticket. The event included appearances from Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase; Daniel Ek, the founder of Spotify; and Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia. Tech billions and top executives have been increasingly opting to tell their stories in the friendly spaces of podcasts and YouTube streams rather than in traditional media interviews as they allow guests more leeway to expound on their pursuits and passions. The democratization of media has allowed anyone to have a personal talk show, and those in powerful positions now have a wide array of options to choose from when they want to reach the public.
This article tells the inside story of how Bob Iger undermined and outmaneuvered Bob Chapek to return to power at Disney. Chapek was Iger's chosen successor after Iger stepped down in late February 2020. Iger stayed in the company as a creative director and executive chairman of the board after stepping down as chief executive. Chapek was still required to report to Iger, resulting in conflict. The board ultimately fired Chapek just before Thanksgiving in 2022 and replaced him with Iger.
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Google co-founder Sergei Brin is back at Google and working on AI.
1/3 of startups are good investments, 1/3 turn into something but you wish you hadn't made the investment, and 1/3 are zeros.
Oracle recently introduced new types of clusters to be available for AI training through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the most powerful of which offers up to 2.4 ZettaFLOPS of AI performance.
Klarna's aggressive cost-cutting measures and focus on AI are part of a broader trend where companies across various sectors are implementing AI-driven solutions to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
A new feature in Google's Play Integrity API allows apps to push 'remediation' dialogs during sideloading that can't be worked around.
The Internet was deeply personal and creative back when people had blogs and MySpace - content was driven by the need and want of people to share knowledge.
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By the year 2027, 50% of knee replacement surgeries will be robotic – up from 12% today. Monogram (Nasdaq: MGRM) [4], known for its autonomous robotic surgical systems, just filed for FDA approval to commercialize their patented tech.
OpenAI's Strawberry can reportedly solve math problems it has never encountered before and 'think' about a question before answering. The model is aimed at enhancing AI models' advanced reasoning capabilities, improving their ability to understand and process complex information. OpenAI aims to push the boundaries and spark new possibilities in every sector. The company now has more than one million paying business users.
Huawei has launched a dual-hinged, triple-screen foldable phone with prices starting at 19,999 yuan (about $2,809) for the 256GB model. All models come with 16GB of RAM. The OLED display measures 6.4 inches when fully collapsed - when unfolded, that display increases to 10.2 inches. It can be used in a partially unfurled 7.9-inch configuration. The device has a 5,600mAh battery that supports 66W of wired charging. It is unclear whether the device will be available outside of China, where there have already been at least 3.7 million preorders. A video showing the phone's design is available in the article.
The Polaris Dawn mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The mission will travel to the highest altitude humans have traveled since the Apollo 17 mission to the moon in 1972. The four-person crew will fly through the high-energy Van Allen belt and also attempt the first spacewalk not involving government astronauts. They will be testing new extravehicular activity suits designed by SpaceX. The mission is a partnership between tech billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX - neither party has disclosed the cost of the flight.
A feature in Apple's new AirPods Pro allows the device to be used as an over-the-counter hearing aid designed for users with mild to moderate hearing loss. Users can take hearing tests on devices running iOS 18 after which their AirPods will make personalized dynamic adjustments allowing them to properly hear their immediate listening environments. The test takes about five minutes and the results are stored privately within the Health app. The AirPods also have a passive noise-reduction hearing loss prevention feature that automatically dampens ambient loud noises while retaining audio integrity.
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ell is a lightweight functional prompt engineering framework that treats prompts as programs instead of strings. It supports rich type coercion for multimodal inputs and outputs. ell provides tools for monitoring, versioning, and visualization to help users empiricize their prompt optimization processes. It is designed to be an unobtrusive library that doesn't require users to change their coding style or use special editors.
Quality fonts often come with extra features. The minimal package users should expect from a font includes different weights and maybe italic, but OpenType allows much more, including variable axes, stylistic alternates, swashes, numerals, small caps, and contextual alternates. This article covers some of the most interesting features and how to implement them.
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of Google by optimizing the computing power the company needed through software. This article discusses their relationship, highlighting how pair programming can help drive better results. Studies of close creative groups find that the best insights emerge when groups collaborate and respond to one another in pairs. The pair's roles have now diverged, but they are still working together on some projects.
This excerpt from the book, Character Limit, by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tells the story of the final days before Elon Musk closed the deal to purchase Twitter and the subsequent takeover of the company. It details how Musk's 'goons' instilled fear and uncertainty among the rank and file and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics throughout the transaction. The book will be published on September 17.
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The PS5 Pro promises more ray-tracing and a fluid 4K and 60-frames-per-second for games that get Pro upgraded and automatic AI upscaling for other games.
This article looks at how companies can structure their open-source offerings in a way that's good for both users and the business.
The European Commission filed the case in 2016, claiming that Apple had received illegal tax benefits from Ireland over the course of two decades.
The license you choose is a component of your product's packaging - it can't be a choice based exclusively on your belief system.
Exceptions have several advantages over error return values, for example, they keep the error path distinct, making it easy to provide root-cause context by default.
SpaceX says its Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage have been ready to launch since the first week of August.
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Apple just announced the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods 4, and more. This page contains details on all of the new devices. The iPhone Pro models will feature the A18 Pro chip, which powers new camera features that allow for faster processing and more details. The Pro models also have four studio-quality mics designed for vocal and acoustic recordings. The first Apple Intelligence features will launch in beta next month for the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and the iPhone 16 lineup.
This article contains an interview with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, where he discusses why he decided to work in AI, what products he sees AI will bring in the future, and how he is thinking about building them. Krieger co-founded Instagram. He left Meta in 2018 and launched an AI-powered news reader, which was shut down earlier this year. Anthropic was started in 2021 by former OpenAI executives and researchers. Its main product is Claude, an industry-leading AI model and chatbot that competes with ChatGPT.
Schizophrenia is one of the costliest mental health illnesses - it costs nearly $300 billion dollars in healthcare spending annually despite affecting less than 1% of the population. It is currently treated with antipsychotics, a treatment discovered through pure chance. Regulators are currently deciding whether to approve a drug with a novel mechanism for treating schizophrenia. The new drug has opened up a new hypothesis for schizophrenia, which multiple biotech companies are pursuing.
The European Hyperloop Center ran its first successful vehicle tests on Monday. The vehicle currently runs at a slow 30 kilometers per hour, but operators hope to reach 100 kph by the end of the year. It will be ready to transport passengers by 2030. The technology has the potential to revolutionize travel in Europe, enabling passengers to reach from Amsterdam to Berlin in 90 minutes or Milan in two hours.
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Design patterns make certain problems easier to deal with. Some patterns are easier to write in some languages than others. A language update to implement these patterns can make things easier for developers and produce cleaner code. This article presents an example of this where a new feature in Java made a particular design pattern a thing of the past.
This article, written by one of GitHub's cofounders, discusses the reasoning behind the rise and dominance of the platform. GitHub started at the right time and it had good taste. It started when distributed open source version control tools were starting to get useful, solid, and adopted and there was nobody around to host them. Its competitors couldn't compete with a developer tools company whose cofounders were all product-focused open source software developers that cared about the developer experience. Everyone else was trying to build what they thought they could sell to advertisers or CTOs.
John Hering and Alexander Tamas' venture firm, Vy Capital, has invested more than half of its $8 billion in reported assets into Elon Musk's startups. The investors frequently make trips to directly help solve problems in Musk's companies. Despite their efforts, neither Hering nor Tamas holds a board seat at any of Musk's companies. The results of their investments have not been promising, but they have brought the investors closer to Musk.
The US Department of Justice's next monopoly trial against Google started on Monday. The trial challenges the tech giant's ad tech dominance. The DOJ is arguing that Google broke competition in the ad tech space by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control of the tools used by publishers, advertisers, and brokers to facilitate digital advertising. Google profits from both advertisers and publishers, pocketing at least 30 cents of each advertising dollar flowing from advertisers to website publishers through its ad tech tools. The trial is expected to last four to six weeks and may be the most consequential of the monopoly trials Google has recently faced.
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Passkeys are essentially a halfway house to a password manager but tied to specific platforms in ways that aren't obvious to users, making it easier for them to lose access to their accounts.
Pull requests contain multiple 'identities' when an Action workflow runs.
Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model trained and released by New York startup HyperWrite, has been aggressively questioned by third-party evaluators as it fails to reproduce some of its claimed performance measures.
A single missing access policy can often introduce security risks, data leaks, or other unintended consequences.