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The FCC opened the entire 6 GHz band to very low-power devices, expanding capabilities for technologies like virtual reality and wearable devices while protecting existing services.
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Amazon Autos is an e-commerce business that lets customers find, order, and buy new cars, trucks, and SUVs from dealerships. It launched on Tuesday with Hyundai in 48 US cities. Amazon Autos will allow customers to secure financing and e-sign paperwork. It will also handle trade-ins. Customers can only buy new cars. Amazon will add more cities, additional auto manufacturers, leasing, and expanded financing options in 2025.
Cruise CEO Marc Whitten announced that GM would no longer fund the company in a Slack message on Tuesday afternoon. Cruise will be absorbed into GM and combined with the automaker's own efforts to develop driver assistance features and eventually fully autonomous personal vehicles. It is unclear whether employees' jobs are safe. Several employees reported feeling blindsided by the decision - they had been following a roadmap to launch a driverless service in Houston in 2025.
Google Willow is a new 105-qubit superconducting chip. It has been used to demonstrate an error-corrected surface code qubit as well as a new, bigger quantum supremacy experiment based on Random Circuit Sampling. The development is a real milestone for the field. This article discusses Google Willow and its implications for the field of quantum computing.
The universe is expanding about 8% faster than initially assumed possible. New measurements from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the long-established discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the rate we thought possible based on our knowledge of the cosmos is potentially due to the influence of dark matter and dark energy. The discrepancy suggests that something is missing in our understanding of the early universe. The new data confirms that the universe is expanding faster today than it did during its first few billion years.
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JSON is famously simple, but its formal definition is quite complicated. The biggest problem with JSON is the incredible diversity of parser behavior and non-conformity across and within language ecosystems. Everything is implementation-defined, which can result in data loss and other issues. This article looks at how JSON is designed, how it is used and misused, and how its 'human readability' features can cause headaches for users.
Limbo is an in-process OLTP database management system. It features an in-process OLTP database engine library, asynchronous I/O support with io_uring, SQLite compatibility, and JavaScript/WebAssembly bindings. Limbo is still a work in progress.
WhatsApp contains an ecosystem of services, features, and connections that make many businesses possible. It is the world's most widely-used messaging app, with 2 billion daily users sending more than 100 billion messages a day in 60 languages across 180 countries. WhatsApp achieved its global dominance in large part by enabling cheap, private, and reliable messaging on almost any phone almost anywhere in the world. The app has transformed into a sort of 'everything app' in the decade since Meta acquired it. This article takes a look at how the app is used in different places and the possibilities it has enabled.
The creator of Redis is returning to the project after a four-and-a-half-year break. He will be working with Redis' new CEO to tune the future of the company's relationships with the community and the code base direction. He will help be a bridge between the company and the community and also help produce programming demos, invent and describe new patterns, and create documentation, videos, and blog posts about new and old stuff.
The court has also ordered Automattic to restore WP Engine's access and control of the popular Advanced Custom Field plug-in.
Instagram's trial reels will give creators a chance to test out new content by publishing videos that don't appear to their followers, allowing creators to experiment with new ideas and see what performs best without having to worry about how their followers may react.
Misconceptions about compilers have led many engineers to believe that they do things that they don't, or that they don't do things that they do.
This article features an interview with Annie Rauwerda, the owner of the famous Depths of Wikipedia account, which shares factors from some of the most arcane, interesting, and surprising pages on Wikipedia.
This article looks at two recently unveiled chiplet-enabling technologies and examines the benefits of chiplet-based designs and some reasons why they may not make sense.
The fast consumption of digital content is harmful to the brain, mind, and soul.
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The Adept team and Pieter Abbeel have formed a new lab within Amazon to work on AGI goals. They will continue training language models and multimodal models and work towards integrating them into AWS products.
Canvas, OpenAI's editing tool originally introduced in October, is now available to everyone. It now supports getting feedback and editing in the form of comments.
Yelp's latest updates bring AI-powered features like Review Insights to help users explore businesses more effectively. The platform also enhances discovery tools, simplifies connecting with service providers, and introduces AI-driven ad optimization to benefit business owners.
Sakana AI has developed a new transferable memory module that works by compressing attention information and transferring it between models. It slightly improves performance on some long context benchmarks.
Another step towards the unification of autoregressive modeling and flow-based methods for the generation of new data. This work uses Masking over discrete data as its generative objective. The results are compelling, although only on smaller-scale datasets.
Dropout Decoding is a method that improves large vision-language models by reducing errors like object hallucinations in multimodal tasks.
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LLMs excel at handling simple, well-defined tasks, but workflows often demand more than isolated outputs. By connecting multiple AI agents that represent various processes within an organization, you can create systems that collaborate across domains and automate complex workflows seamlessly. Explore how to build a multi-agent system [12], and see an agent network in action with Cognizant Neuro AI [12].
OLMo and Friends of OLMo models that are completely open. This list includes data, training code, and model weights.
Facebook Research has released a comprehensive tutorial and code for flow matching, which was used in its Meta Movie Gen work. It covers all the mathematics and algorithmic complexities of the field for anyone looking to quickly get up to speed.
EMOv2 is a new lightweight model design optimized for mobile and bandwidth-efficient applications.
OpenAI's o1 model, believed to be a post-trained version of GPT-4o, focuses on leveraging increased test-time computation to improve performance in complex domains like math and coding. This approach encourages the model to use more tokens for internal processing, enhancing reasoning capabilities at the cost of slower response times. While o1 showcases potential benefits, particularly in fields requiring deep thought, it also raises concerns about alignment and interpretability due to its reliance on RL and search methods.
Growl has raised $4.75 million to develop an AI-powered interactive boxing coach designed for at-home family workouts. Utilizing advanced AI, multi-camera 3D motion tracking, and edge computing, Growl delivers real-time, personalized fitness guidance. The system combines immersive technology with gaming experiences, offering a comprehensive workout across various fitness levels and types.
Google has introduced new AI features for Android, including Expressive Captions that add emotional context to transcriptions and enhanced Image Q&A, which leverages the Gemini 1.5 Pro model for detailed image descriptions. Gemini integrates better with popular apps and offers personalized responses and auto-enhancements in Google Drive scanned documents. Updates also include improved file sharing with QR codes and enhancements to the Pixel Screenshots app.
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OpenAI has launched its o1 model, enhancing ChatGPT with image analysis capabilities.
Microsoft has introduced Copilot Vision, an AI tool in Edge that reads and responds to questions about websites users visit.
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is expanding its publisher program, allowing news outlets like LA Times and Adweek to share ad revenue.
Microsoft shareholders rejected a proposal to allocate 1-5% of profits to Bitcoin reserves. The board cited Bitcoin's volatility as one reason to stop the proposal. The proposal, driven by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), highlighted the potential benefits of Bitcoin adoption but relied heavily on a “fear of missing out” argument.
A source close to Donald Trump's transition team claims he plans to monitor Bitcoin prices closely, viewing it as a "stock market" alternative. Trump is reportedly eyeing a potential Bitcoin surge to $150K early in his presidency.
Coinbase's Project Diamond has integrated Chainlink's infrastructure to improve the scalability, interoperability, and compliance of its digital asset platform for institutional users. This collaboration enables tokenized assets to seamlessly interact across public and private blockchains, leveraging verifiable data and cross-chain connectivity to drive institutional adoption and streamline asset lifecycle management.
DIMO will migrate its protocol to Base in 2025, aiming to use Base's enterprise credibility, robust DeFi ecosystem, and performance secured by Ethereum to scale its web3 solutions for the global auto industry. This move will look to modernize car payments, tokenize ownership, and integrate smart contracts for seamless innovation. The migration is subject to a later governance vote by DIMO token holders.
A new crypto scam targets users via fake Telegram groups impersonating influencers, tricking them into running malicious verification bots that inject malware to steal crypto keys. Protect yourself by avoiding suspicious links, verifying official channels, and using hardware wallets.
Privacy is poised to revolutionize crypto, AI, and institutional adoption, acting as the key to unlocking trillions in capital and enabling private, secure applications. A new report highlights the Crypto Privacy Stack, privacy-enhancing technologies, and protocols like Nillion that are paving the way for this transformation.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon stated the firm would consider trading BTC and ETH if U.S. regulations change, expressing interest in the growing demand for crypto-related products. He highlighted the speculative nature of these assets and noted the potential for regulatory changes under the incoming administration.
The sentencing of former Celsius chief revenue officer Roni Cohen-Pavon has been postponed until after ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky's sentencing in April 2025, following Mashinsky's plea deal with U.S. prosecutors. Cohen-Pavon, who pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges, has provided information potentially relevant to Mashinsky's case which could impact the former CEO's sentencing.
Ethereum locked in ETFs (2.64% of total supply) has passed that in L2s (2.57%), with Grayscale holding about half of the ETF allocations, highlighting ETFs' growing role in ETH supply dynamics.
Crypto's transformative power lies in its ability to create new markets.
Ethereum's bright future is fueled by the Ethereum Foundation's innovations, like EIP-1559 and chain abstractions, but challenges like scaling and L1 vs. L2 priorities remain.
The Moonwell Card enables seamless spending for crypto investors and unbanked users, allowing instant borrowing against assets like Bitcoin or staked Ethereum without taxable events and auto-loading from USDC vaults to earn while transacting globally.