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ELON MUSK IN CHINA TO DISCUSS ENABLING FULL SELF DRIVING

Elon Musk wants to enable Full Self Driving in China and transfer data collected abroad to train its algorithms - Tesla is willing to cooperate with China to achieve mutually beneficial results.

ONCE YOU GET GOOD AT RUST ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS WILL GO AWAY (2 HOUR READ)

This post, written by game developers who have released games built using a variety of coding languages, dispels commonly used arguments about Rust, such as that beginners are only facing the problems they are dealing with because they haven't learned or tried hard enough.

BUN.REPORT IS BUN'S NEW CRASH REPORTER

bun.report creates crash reports that fit in a ~150 byte URL without containing any personal information.

CHINA'S MOON ATLAS IS THE MOST DETAILED EVER MADE

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet, revealing a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins, and 17 rock types, along with other basic geological information about the lunar surface, at a scale of 1:2,500,000.

SLEEPSORT: SORTING WHILE SLEEPING

Sleep sort is a quirky way to sort numbers that involves making numbers 'sleep' for a bit before joining the sorted list - it may not be the fastest way to sort numbers, but it is interesting because it is so different.

BYTEDANCE 'WOULD RATHER' TORPEDO TIKTOK THAN SELL IT OFF

ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell the company. The US only provides a quarter of TikTok's global revenue and only represents 5% of ByteDance's daily active users across all of its media platforms. The short deadline to sell would likely put downward pressure on any potential sale price, making the option even less appealing. Selling the company would mean divesting the algorithms that power TikTok and its video recommendations, which raises more complications.

ORACLE'S JUMP TO NASHVILLE SURPRISES AUSTIN

Oracle has moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to offer its employees a better lifestyle. Nashville pledged $175 million in incentives and the state of Tennessee $65 million to help build the Oracle campus in 2021. There were no additional incentives from the city ahead of Oracle's headquarters announcement. Oracle plans to get closer to the healthcare industry - the Nashville area's healthcare industry employs more than 300,000 people and adds $68 billion to the Nashville region's economy.

THE ROBOTICS RENAISSANCE

Intelligent androids will be a part of industrial activities and aspects of everyday life over the next decade. Modern AI models have changed the game, allowing robots to learn from online text, images, and videos. This article takes a look at the modern robotics industry, highlighting new technologies, current capabilities, potential applications, major players in the space, and the impacts the technology will have on society.

RECODING VOYAGER 1 — NASA'S INTERSTELLAR EXPLORER IS FINALLY MAKING SENSE AGAIN

Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting. Voyager 1 is on an outbound trajectory more than 15 billion miles from Earth, so it takes almost two days for engineers to uplink a command and get a response. The spacecraft suddenly stopped transmitting intelligible data in November. Engineers eventually found the issue, which was in the system responsible for packaging engineering and scientific data for transmission to Earth. A single chip responsible for storing a portion of memory stopped working, probably due to either a cosmic ray hit or a failure of aging hardware.

LLAMAFILE'S PROGRESS, FOUR MONTHS IN

The llamafile project has become one of Mozilla's top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub. llamafile is an easy and fast way to run a wide range of open large language models on consumer hardware. This article covers the project's development, explaining the changes that have been implemented since v0.1. The latest release includes support for the very latest open models and a number of big performance improvements for CPU inference.

RUBY MIGHT BE FASTER THAN YOU THINK

The crystalruby project allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file, bringing significant performance improvements to code compared to their pure Ruby versions. However, the Ruby implementation the project uses contains a subtle mistake that causes significantly more work than it needs to. Fixing this mistake makes the Ruby code run faster than the 'crystalized' method. Future advancements in the Ruby JIT may make these small tweaks unnecessary.

CORPORATE OPEN SOURCE IS DEAD

Startups and megacorps have used and abused open source to build up billions in revenue over the past decade. Corporate Open Source has died - open source cultures rely on trust, and time and time companies have shattered that trust with the developers who helped build them. Contributor License Agreements are a strategy employed by commercial companies to subvert the open source social contract. Developers should stay away from projects that require them and stick to open source licenses that respect their freedom.

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‘TO THE FUTURE': SAUDI ARABIA SPENDS BIG TO BECOME AN A.I. SUPERPOWER

Saudi Arabia created a $100 billion fund this year to invest in AI and other technology.

META HORIZON OS

Meta's Horizon OS will enable a variety of high-end headsets with full app compatibility.

ELON MUSK'S XAI STARTUP CLOSES IN ON $6 BILLION FUNDRAISING

xAI is nearing a deal with Sequoia Capital and other investors to raise $6 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $18 billion.

AFTER 6-YEAR HIATUS, STRIPE TO START TAKING CRYPTO PAYMENTS, STARTING WITH USDC STABLECOIN

Stripe will start accepting payments in USDC, initially only on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon.

TINY-GPU

tiny-gpu is a minimal GPU implementation in Verilog optimized for learning about how GPUs work from the ground up.

TSMC SAYS FIRST 1.6NM CHIPS COMING IN 2026

TSMC's A16 process technology could deliver the first 1.6nm chips for customers by 2026.

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US BANS TIKTOK OWNER BYTEDANCE, WILL PROHIBIT APP IN US UNLESS IT IS SOLD

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that orders TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the company within 270 days or lose access to the US market. Biden can extend the deadline by up to 90 days if a sale is in progress. If ByteDance doesn't sell TikTok, app stores in the US will have to drop the app and internet hosting services will be prohibited from providing services that enable distribution of TikTok in the US. ByteDance will file a lawsuit to attempt to block the law.

META LOSES $200 BILLION IN VALUE AS ZUCKERBERG FOCUSES EARNINGS CALL ON ALL THE WAYS COMPANY BLEEDS CASH

Mark Zuckerberg spent almost the entirety of his opening remarks during Meta's earnings call focused on the many ways the company loses money. This resulted in the company's shares dropping by as much as 19% in extended trading on Wednesday, despite Meta reporting better-than-expected profit and revenue for the first quarter. This article discusses the earning call in detail. Topics mentioned on the call include Meta's plans for turning its AI investment into ad dollars, Llama 3, potential opportunities for expansion within the mixed reality headset market, and Meta's AR glasses.

TESLA EXPECTS ITS 4680 BATTERY CELLS TO BE CHEAPER THAN SUPPLIERS BY END OF YEAR

Tesla says that its own 4680 battery cells, a new cell format enabled by new technologies like tabless cells, are expected to become cheaper than cells coming from suppliers by the end of the year. Tesla's 4680 battery cell was first revealed in 2020 with promises of enabling significantly lower cost, more range, and faster charging. They are currently exclusively used in the Cybertruck. Tesla plans to continue to purchase its cells from LG, Panasonic, and CATL.

HOW LIGHT CAN VAPORIZE WATER WITHOUT THE NEED FOR HEAT

A team of researchers at MIT have demonstrated that light can cause water to evaporate in the absence of any source of heat. The discovery, named the photo molecular effect, could have significant implications in science and manufacturing. The effect happens widely in nature. It is strongest with green light that hits the water surface at a 45-degree angle with a certain type of polarization called transverse magnetic polarization.

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NODE.JS 22 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

Node.js 22 contains highlights such as require()ing ES modules, a WebSocket client, updates of the V8 JavaScript engine, and more. It will enter long-term support in October. This blog post expands on the changelog for the release, adding additional context to the changes. Node.js 18 will go End-of-Life in April 2025.

PRAGMATIC DRAG AND DROP

Pragmatic drag and drop is a low-level drag and drop toolchain that enables safe and successful usage of browsers' built-in drag and drop functionality. It can be used with any view layer. While the package includes its own design guidelines, users are free to use whatever design languages they like.

GOOGLE SEARCH BOSS WARNS EMPLOYEES OF ‘NEW OPERATING REALITY,' URGES THEM TO MOVE FASTER

Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google, recently addressed staff in Google's knowledge and information organization about upcoming changes to how the company will operate. Growth for Google is getting harder, so the company needs to react and move faster. The company is shortening the amount of time some teams have to complete certain projects, despite having fewer resources after cost cuts, in an effort to move faster. It plans to build teams closer to users in key markets, including India and Brazil.

A MORNING WITH THE RABBIT R1: A FUN, FUNKY, UNFINISHED AI GADGET

The Rabbit R1 is a $199 AI-powered device that can answer questions, translate speech, play music, take notes, summon an Uber, and a few other things. This article presents an early review of the device. While the roadmap for the device is ambitious, its current feature set is much more straightforward. So far, the device seems to be trying to be a useful companion rather than a smartphone killer.

FRAMEWORK WON'T BE JUST A LAPTOP COMPANY ANYMORE

APPLE RELEASES OPEN SOURCE AI MODELS THAT RUN ON-DEVICE

Apple has released code, training logs, and multiple versions of OpenELM.

IBM MOVES DEEPER INTO HYBRID CLOUD MANAGEMENT WITH $6.4B HASHICORP ACQUISITION

IBM has gained HashiCorp's set of cloud lifecycle management and security tools and a company that is growing considerably faster than any of IBM's other businesses.

META'S OPEN SOURCE AI AMBITIONS

Meta is hoping to commoditize the model layer to prevent new players from gaining disproportionate control.

WHAT CAN LLMS NEVER DO?

LLMs as they are today can't solve problems that require long series of reasoning steps, especially if they're dependent on previous states or predicting future ones.

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG PERSONALLY DELIVERS FIRST DGX H200 TO OPENAI

The DGX H200, Nvidia's latest and most advanced AI processor, is currently the world's most powerful AI-specific hardware.

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TESLA TEASES ITS UPCOMING UBER-LIKE SELF-DRIVING RIDE-HAILING APP

Tesla teased screenshots of its ride-hailing feature along with the release of its Q1 2024 financial results. The feature allows people to summon self-driving Teslas for rides. Riders can adjust the temperature and music inside the vehicle from their phones. The feature will be integrated into the existing Tesla app. Tesla has yet to achieve unsupervised self-driving, so it is unknown when the ride-hailing feature will be available. The screenshots are available in the article.

APPLE REPORTEDLY DEVELOPING ITS OWN CUSTOM SILICON FOR AI SERVERS

Apple reportedly has ambitious plans to design its own artificial intelligence server processor using TSMC's 3nm node. TSMC's 3nm technology is one of the most advanced semiconductor processes available. A specialist AI server processor would allow Apple to tailor hardware specifically to its software needs, potentially leading to more powerful and efficient technologies. While Apple is rumored to be prioritizing on-device processing for many of its upcoming AI tools, some operations will inevitably have to occur in the cloud.

HERE'S WHY RISC-V IS SO IMPORTANT

RISC-V is an instruction set architecture freely available for commercial purposes. The open source chip design is helping to drive innovation in custom hardware. RISC-V competitors may eventually emerge to challenge AMD and Intel. The combined resources working to develop faster and more efficient RISC-V chips may one day outpace that of major players in the CPU space.

IS UMAINE'S EXPERIMENTAL 3D-PRINTED DWELLING THE FUTURE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING?

UMaine's experimental 3D-printed dwelling, BioHome3D, is the result of a two-and-a-half-year effort to create a technology for building homes faster, more efficiently, and less expensively than conventional construction. BioHome3D is made from logging and sawmill wood waste. It has an open-concept living/kitchen/dining room, one bedroom, and one bath. The dwelling has two mini-split heat pumps and roughly 30 sensors that measure temperature, humidity, wind, and other weather factors. Pictures of the dwelling are available in the article.

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