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OpenAI's chief technology officer Mira Murati said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that Sora, a model capable of generating hyperrealistic video scenes based on text prompts, could be available to the public in the next few months.
Market demand is pushing for a deeper separation of compute and storage, with customers preferring open formats, as the diversity of demands on data expands.
The US House has voted in favor of a bill that may require ByteDance to sell TikTok or have the app banned in the country.
Flox is a virtual environment and package manager that makes dependencies portable across the full software cycle.
Cerebras Systems' Wafer Scale Engine 3, a third-generation AI chip designed for training AI models, is the world's largest semiconductor.
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The latest TikTok app APK contains strings that mention a standalone app called TikTok Photos. TikTok appears to be considering offering a more dedicated photo experience that will allow users to sync their existing photo posts from the main TikTok app. There is no official launch date and TikTok has not confirmed the existence of the app. A leaked icon for the app is available in the article.
Apple's new iOS web distribution feature is a new way to distribute iOS apps in EU markets without the need for a separate app store. App developers considering the option will need to adhere to Apple's strict rules. It will allow apps to be installed from website domains registered with App Store Connect. Apple appears to be limiting the option to large developers with a good standing around for at least two years.
Stratolaunch successfully launched its first rocket-powered prototype vehicle from a carrier plane on March 9. The dart-shaped Talon-A1 is an advanced air-launched vehicle designed to launch from a huge dual-fuselage carrier plane and travel at hypersonic speeds. Stratolaunch is now ramping up its plans to manufacture a fully reusable version of the vehicle. Pictures of the Talon-A1 test vehicle taken during its powered flight test are available in the article.
Iloprost, a drug that can prevent the need to amputate frozen fingers and toes due to frostbite, has been approved as a treatment for frostbite by the FDA. The drug has already been used to treat frostbite for years in a number of European countries and elsewhere in the world. It works as a vasodilator, widening blood vessels and improving blood flow. Iloprost prevents blood clotting and is also used to treat blood pressure-related illnesses.
This article shares details on two versions of Meta's 24,576-GPU data center scale cluster. These clusters support the company's current and next-generation AI models as well as AI research and development across GenAI and other areas. Meta's long-term vision is to build artificial general intelligence that is open and built responsibly to be widely available so that everyone can benefit from it. Its infrastructure is designed to power this ambition.
This report shares insights about startup hiring in 2023, a year that saw headcount at VC-backed startups experience a net decline for the first time in at least five years. There were more total job departures in VC-backed startups last year than there were new hires. Startups were still hiring, but their priorities shifted. Compensation strategies shifted as well.
Ozone is a tool that lets individuals and teams collaboratively review and label content on Bluesky. Bluesky plans to open up the ability for individuals and teams to run their own independent moderation services later this week. Users will be able to subscribe to additional moderation services on top of Bluesky's default moderation. Installing filters from independent moderation services will be as easy as following another account. Moderation service filters will be available on the desktop version of Bluesky first - a mobile version will be available soon.
Ubicloud wants to offer an open-source layer of core cloud computing services that allows developers to build their own cloud on top of affordable bare-metal servers.
Instead of defining font-size piecewise, just use this one-line function: 1rem + 0.25vw.
Discord's new development SDK platform will allow developers to embed an iframe within the platform to enable users to access games and apps directly through the chat platform.
Transformer Debugger is a tool that supports investigations into specific behaviors of small language models by combining automated interpretability techniques with sparse autoencoders.
Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov says the company hopes to become profitable within the next two years.
Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks through the use of its own shell, code editor, and web browser.
Apple's AirPods Pro will reportedly gain a new 'hearing aid mode' with iOS 18. The device already offers a Conversation Boost feature, but Apple has not advertised it as a hearing aid device as that requires FDA regulatory approval. It is unclear whether Apple will need FDA clearance to make explicit or implicit claims about the 'hearing aid mode' or whether it will adopt that exact name. The FDA approved a new category of over-the-counter hearing aids called Personal sound amplification products in August 2022 that doesn't require legal registration by manufacturers or listing with the FDA. iOS 18 is set to be previewed in June and released sometime in September.
xAI will open source Grok this week. The move follows Elon Musk's complaint that OpenAI has deviated from its open source roots. Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI claiming that OpenAI, which was supposed to make its technology freely available to the public, has become closed-source and has shifted its focus to maximizing profits for Microsoft. Musk has long been a proponent of open source - Tesla has open sourced many of its patents. It is unclear what aspects of Grok will be open sourced.
Covariant has announced a robotics foundation model that gives robots a human-like ability to reason. The 8 billion parameter RFM-1 can expand its abilities through more data consumption. It incorporates images, video, joint angles, force reading, suction cup strength, and more into its prediction engine to produce images, videos, or a series of commands for a robot. It can be used as a simulation tool, generating action sequences that are both realistic and accurate. With enough data, it could be a useful world simulation tool more capable than one built from the ground up. Covariant aims to make the model be able to do any task in any body.
A novel therapy for Parkinson's disease has shown promise in early clinical trials. UB-312 is designed to clear toxic clumps of a protein thought to be responsible for the disease. It has been shown to be generally safe with relatively mild side effects. There are currently no treatments that address the underlying condition of Parkinson's. The therapy's initial success is exciting as it suggests that scientists are on the right path to finding a safe and effective means of improving quality of life for Parkinson's patients.
TypeScript lets developers write type unions that often feel more ergonomic compared to other languages, which may force them to tag the union. These untagged unions often lead to cleaner user-side APIs that don't require boilerplate boxing up of values. However, if you have overlaps when using them, the result type might hold less information than you think. To get the composition to actually represent something like what you get with data types in other languages, make sure there is no overlap between the types.
The decision to add usernames to the upcoming version of Signal was nowhere near as simple as it sounds. Many countries around the world are making it increasingly difficult to obtain phone numbers. Using phone numbers as an identifier is also a security risk for some users. Signal had to implement usernames without having to deal with large-scale moderation obligations. Its system is far more limited than on other platforms that have usernames as canonical identifiers for users. Beta users can claim their usernames now.
TikTok's shareholder agreement bans current and former employees from criticizing the company or risk losing any stock they own. While the non-disparagement provision is unusual, it isn't illegal as long as it doesn't prevent, intimidate, or punish employees for filing complaints with government agencies. The terms in the agreement defining disparagement are vague. It is unknown whether TikTok has ever seized stock from any shareholders.
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Version 6.8 of the Linux Kernel contains 9.996 million objects.
Apple is aiming to cut the cost of the headset's most expensive components, its two 4K micro-OLED displays, by as much as 50%.
This tutorial goes through how to implement training and sampling code for a toy data set to introduce diffusion models from an optimization perspective.
Midjourney has accused Stability AI employees of causing a systems outage earlier this month during an attempt to scrape Midjourney's data.
The top Quest apps include social apps, browsers, and video players, and there is a passionate community around fitness apps as well.
Andreessen Horowitz led an investment round totaling $100 million to get Kickstarter to move its entire platform to the Celo blockchain.
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OpenAI has announced its new board with the wrap-up of an internal investigation into the events leading to Sam Altman's ouster. Sam Altman will rejoin OpenAI's board along with Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, former EVP and Global General Counsel of Sony and President of Sony Entertainment; Fidji Simo, CEO and Chair of Instacart; and current board members Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Bret Taylor. OpenAI will continue to expand the board moving forward.
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is considering buying TikTok - he recently floated the idea at a dinner with a group of potential partners. A proposed legislation may force ByteDance to sell TikTok or have it banned from the US. There are concerns that ByteDance may share data about its users with the Chinese government or use the platform to influence US citizens' political opinions. The bill will be voted on by the full House on Wednesday, after which it will move on to the Senate.
mRNA vaccines are our best bet at addressing viral persistence. They can prevent infection as well as improve responses against infection. They are also faster, cheaper, and more flexible to make than their traditional counterparts. mRNA vaccines are like injectable instructions that turn a body's cells into factories that can create any protein for which mRNA instructions can be built. This means they can be used to teach the body to mount an immune response to any target foreign protein - including proteins on cancer cells.
Three researchers from the University of California have presented a new technique that boosts matrix multiplication. Matrix multiplication is a fundamental computational operation that is incorporated into a large population of the algorithms people use every day for a variety of tasks. Even slight improvements can eventually lead to significant savings in time, computational power, and money. While the new technique has set new records, the most exciting thing about the development is that the technique reveals a new avenue for improvement that was previously unknown.
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The idea that Amazon S3 is really an 'Amazon Cloud Filesystem' is a bit of a fiction - it isn't a file system and it can't stand in for one. S3 implements a completely different arrangement and its primitives are only partly compatible with the Unix file API. It has fewer functions and can't do some tasks, such as overwriting files partially. This means that filesystem software, especially databases, can't be ported to Amazon S3.
Browsers can produce audio files that users can't hear. These audio files can be used to identify web visitors. Apple has decided to fight this type of identification in Safari 17, but so far its measures don't fully work. The new measures can be bypassed using a technique detailed in this article. A link to a post that explains how audio fingerprinting works is available.
This X post contains a screenshot of Claude 3's system prompt. According to the prompt, Claude's knowledge base was last updated in August 2023. It is instructed to give concise responses to simple questions but provide thorough responses to more complex and open-ended questions. The bot is told to answer questions without engaging in stereotyping. Claude will not mention information about itself unless the information is directly pertinent to the query.
People are able to render anything in the world. They just have to be audacious enough and ambitious enough to envision a different reality. Couple this with the ability to inspire others, and you can become a force of nature. AGI makes raw skill less important, but it will still take hard work and unwavering commitment to make a profound impact in people's lives.
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By replacing difficult-to-manage legacy queues and pub/subsystems, Hatchet allows developers to design durable workloads that recover from failure and solve for problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting.
Epic has agreed to follow Apple's rules, including its DMA policies.
Rolldown is a fast bundler for JavaScript with a Rollup-compatible API and plugin interface.