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KOREAN RESEARCHERS POWER-SHAME NVIDIA WITH NEW NEURAL AI CHIP — CLAIM 625 TIMES LESS POWER DRAW, 41 TIMES SMALLER

REACT GEIGER

React Geiger runs in the background and alerts developers to excessively slow React component rerenders.

I'M BETTING ON CALL-BY-PUSH-VALUE

Call-by-Push-Value supports both Call-by-Value and Call-by-Name/Need with one set of semantics by distinguishing between values and computations.

KEY OPENAI EXECUTIVE PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN SAM ALTMAN’S OUSTER

OpenAI's chief technology officer Mira Murati questioned Sam Altman's management in front of the board last year before Altman was briefly ousted from the company. This move helped to propel the board's decision to force Altman out. Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, expressed similar concerns. Both executives said that Altman sometimes created a toxic work environment by freezing out executives who did not support his decisions. WilmerHale, the law firm investigating the incident, is expected to release a report in the coming days that could shed more light on the board's decision.

APPLE PLANNING 20-INCH MACBOOK WITH FOLDABLE SCREEN

Apple is planning to release a 20.3-inch MacBook with a foldable screen in 2027, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. It will have a screen measuring about 20 inches diagonally when fully expanded. The laptop is Apple's only foldable product with a clear development schedule. A foldable iPhone or iPad is not likely to come any time soon.

NEW WEIGHT LOSS PILL MORE EFFECTIVE THAN OZEMPIC, TESTS FIND

Novo Nordisk's new obesity treatment drug, amycretin, helped patients lose 13% of their body weight in just 12 weeks. The drug may be more effective than semaglutide. Amycretin targets GLP-1 and another hormone called amylin, both of which are believed to be linked to hunger and satiety. The drug still needs to go through much larger trials that will likely drag on for years before it will be publicly available. The results of the initial trials sent Novo Nordisk's stock rising as much as 8.3%.

ENGINEER PLANS SOLAR PANEL IMPLANT FOR HUMAN RETINA TO RETAIN EYESIGHT

Engineers from the University of New South Wales in Australia are working on a prototype solar panel implant for the retinas to restore sight. The implant converts light into electrical signals that can be directed to the optic nerve, enabling vision. Users may need to wear special glasses or goggles that amplify sunlight for the device to work. The device is still in a proof-of-concept stage - a lot more work still needs to be done before it is ready for human implantation.

WHY FACEBOOK DOESN’T USE GIT

Mercurial is a tool for creating and managing code changes used at Facebook. Facebook started out on Git, but it began hitting scaling limits in around 2012. Mercurial's developers were receptive to the idea of Facebook engineers contributing patches to scale it better while Git's developers were not. There were other alternatives, but all were quickly disqualified. Facebook adopted Mercurial not because it had better technology, but because the maintainers and codebase felt more open.

GRATS

Grats makes building GraphQL servers as simple as writing functions. It leverages existing type annotations to automatically extract an executable GraphQL scheme from generic TypeScript resolver code. Grats makes the TypeScript implementation into a source of truth so developers don't have to worry about validating whether their implementations match their schemas.

OPENAI: FACTS FROM A WEEKEND - AN UPDATE

The investigation into OpenAI's sudden ousting of Sam Altman is almost over, and it appears Altman won. A new board has apparently been chosen. Leaks about the case are likely moves from the anti-Altman faction to strike first before WilmerHale's report is released. This post makes predictions about the results of the investigation and who will be on the new OpenAI board.

US LAWMAKERS VOTE 50-0 TO FORCE SALE OF TIKTOK DESPITE ANGRY CALLS FROM USERS

The House Commerce Committee has voted to approve a bill that would force ByteDance to sell the company or lose access to the US market. The bill still has to pass in the House and Senate and be signed into law before it comes into effect. TikTok is urging its users to protest the bill. Lawmakers responded by noting that the app will only be banned if it doesn't sever its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.

RIVIAN REVEALS THREE NEW, SMALLER ELECTRIC SUVS: THE R2, R3, AND R3X

This article contains pictures of and details about Rivian's three new vehicles.

HUGGING FACE IS LAUNCHING AN OPEN SOURCE ROBOTICS PROJECT LED BY FORMER TESLA SCIENTIST

Hugging Face is launching a new robotics project under former Tesla staff scientist Remi Cadene - the team is now hiring robotics engineers in Paris, France.

TURN ANY WEBSITE INTO AN APP WITH CHROME 124

The Chrome Canary, an early version of Chrome 124, now allows websites to be installed on desktops as progressive web apps.

FLYDE

Flyde is a visual programming language that integrates with existing codebases, allowing developers to create and run visual programs.

MICROSOFT CONFIRMS MARCH 21 EVENT FOR NEW SURFACE HARDWARE AND COPILOT AI

Microsoft will reveal news about Copilot AI, Windows, and Surface hardware at its March 21 event.

INFLECTION AI'S FRIENDLY CHATBOT TOPS 1 MILLION DAILY USERS

Inflection AI's Pi chatbot has an updated engine that is better than GPT-4 at things like math, college-level science, and coding while using only 40% of the training compute as the OpenAI model.

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OPENAI AND ELON MUSK

OpenAI has released a statement detailing its mission and facts about the company's relationship with Elon Musk. The company plans to dismiss all of the claims from Musk's recent lawsuit. OpenAI partnered with Microsoft as it realized that it needed a lot more capital to succeed at its mission of achieving Artificial General Intelligence. It continues to advance its mission by building widely-available beneficial tools. OpenAI's statement includes an email exchange between Musk and OpenAI regarding funding.

IOS 17.4 IS HERE AND READY FOR A WHOLE NEW EUROPE

DELL EXEC REVEALS NVIDIA HAS A 1,000-WATT GPU IN THE WORKS

Nvidia's B200 AI accelerator will consume 1,000 watts without requiring liquid cooling. The chip isn't expected to launch until late 2024. Nvidia plans to launch its H200 GPUs in the next few months. The company claims the H200 can double the performance of large language models thanks to its HBM3e memory stacks, which provide 4.8TB/second of bandwidth.

I WORKED EXCLUSIVELY IN VISION PRO FOR A WEEK — HERE’S HOW IT WENT

The Apple Vision Pro's $3,500 price tag would be much easier to justify if it managed to replace multiple devices at once, just like the iPhone did when it first arrived. It is possible to get serious work done while wearing the Vision Pro - if you can work on an iPad, you can work on a Vision Pro. However, it can't replace a Mac for everyone due to lacking some heavy-duty applications. One big downside is the lack of a practical way to use the Vision Pro in meetings.

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NERDY INTERNALS OF AN APPLE TEXT EDITOR 👨🏻🔧

This article discusses engineering details behind Paper, a text editor for Apple platforms. While Paper is built on the older TextKit 1 framework, all of the concepts, abstractions, and principles discussed in the article still apply to TextKit 2, either unchanged or under a better API. The article covers the TextView class, syntax highlighting, styling, typing, performance, sharing, and much more.

TRAINING GREAT LLMS ENTIRELY FROM GROUND ZERO IN THE WILDERNESS AS A STARTUP

Training AI models requires compute, but there's a large amount of instability and huge variance in the quality of clusters, accelerators, and connectivity in compute providers. This article discusses the differences between training models at Google and training models 'in the wild' - outside of Google, where data scientists have to use GPUs instead of Google's TPUs. It makes comparisons between Google's infrastructure and tools to their equivalents in the outside world. With the right amount of brute technical strength, it is possible to train models from scratch that match Gemini Pro/GPT 3.5.

LINUX MARKET SHARE PASSES 4% FOR FIRST TIME; MACOS DOMINANCE DECLINES

Linux reached 4.03% of global market share in February. It only recently hit the 3% milestone in June last year. Windows has seen an increase in usage, but macOS has seen a drop in its market share, despite its global computer market share going up in the same period. Windows and macOS represent 87.59% of desktop OSes.

BITCOIN ROCKETS TO AN ALL-TIME HIGH ABOVE $69,000, SURPASSING 2021 RECORD

Bitcoin has reached a new all-time high for the first time in more than two years. It surpassed $69,000 before retreating - the previous record was $68,982.20 on November 10, 2021. The current rally is fueled by excitement over bitcoin ETFs and the upcoming halving event. While investors are cautious about a possible correction, there are still longer-term catalysts supporting the positive price action.

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FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, AND THREADS WERE ALL DOWN IN MASSIVE META OUTAGE ON SUPER TUESDAY

The timing of the outage has been met with suspicion - it was election day across a number of US states.

MICROSOFT MAY DEBUT ITS FIRST 'AI PCS' LATER THIS MONTH

Microsoft's Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, which will be revealed on March 21, will be equipped with processors that feature the latest neural processing units to boost AI capabilities.

AWS FOLLOWS GOOGLE IN ANNOUNCING UNRESTRICTED FREE DATA TRANSFERS TO OTHER CLOUD PROVIDERS

These decisions follow provisions set out in the European Data Act designed to promote competition by allowing cloud customers to switch providers more easily.

GOOGLE NOW WANTS TO LIMIT THE AI-POWERED SEARCH SPAM IT HELPED CREATE

Google's March core update to its ranking algorithms will show fewer results that feel like they were created for search engines instead of people.

RIVIAN R2 ELECTRIC SUV LEAKS, 3 SEC 0-60, 330 MILES OF RANGE, MORE

The Rivian R2 will start at $47,000 - the automaker plans to unveil the vehicle on March 7.

PUTER

Puter is a feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible desktop environment that runs in the browser.

APPLE LAUNCHES NEW 13-INCH AND 15-INCH MACBOOK AIR WITH M3 CHIP, SUPPORT FOR TWO EXTERNAL DISPLAYS, FASTER WI-FI

Apple has announced next-generation M3 MacBook Airs in 13-inch and 15-inch sizes. Besides the M3 chips, the new laptops feature an upgraded Neural Engine, up to 2x faster Wi-Fi, and the ability to connect to two displays at once - when the laptop lid is closed. The overall design of the M3 MacBook Air is the same as the M2 model. The new MacBook Airs can be ordered from the Apple online store starting at $1099 for the 13-inch and $1299 for the 15-inch model. Shipping will start on March 8.

THE AI WARS HEAT UP WITH CLAUDE 3, CLAIMED TO HAVE “NEAR-HUMAN” ABILITIES

Anthropic's Claude 3 apparently sets new industry benchmarks across a range of cognitive tasks. The company claims that it approaches 'near-human' capability in some cases. Claude 3 has three models: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet (which powers the Claude.ai chatbot), and Claude 3 Opus (available through a subscription service). All three models feature a 200,000-token context window and are available through an API. Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on a range of widely used benchmarks.

BLUE ORIGIN IS GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT DEVELOPING A HUMAN SPACECRAFT

Blue Origin's new chief executive Dave Limp is working to instill a more productive culture at the firm. The company plans to launch its own heavy-lift rocket later this year, possibly as soon as August. It has been developing hardware to fly on the heavy-lift rocket, including a transfer vehicle for ferrying satellites into precise orbits, and working on a private space station called Orbital Reef. Blue Origin is now hiring staff to develop a commercial space transportation system for humans.

AWS ACQUIRING DATA CENTER CAMPUS POWERED BY NUCLEAR ENERGY

Amazon Web Services purchased a data center campus powered by a nearby nuclear power station in Pennsylvania for $650 million. The nuclear power plant has been in operation since 1983. It will supply AWS with electricity for 10 years as part of the purchase agreement. The data center campus comprises 1,200 acres. AWS also plans to invest $5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia over the next few years to create an AWS Infrastructure Region.

THE HUNT FOR THE MISSING DATA TYPE

While developers see graphs everywhere and use them to analyze all sorts of systems, there is almost no graph support in any mainstream language. This is because there are too many different kinds of graphs, representations of each kind of graph, and graph algorithms. Also, graph algorithm performance is very sensitive to graph representation and implementation details. Languages don't support graphs in their standard libraries because there are too many design decisions and tradeoffs and too much maintenance burden. This also explains why programmers avoid third-party graph libraries - they're either too limited to too slow.

CSS FOR PRINTING TO PAPER

This article explains how CSS controls how webpages look when printed. It covers the @page property, @media print, element positioning, how to handle multi-page documents with repeating elements, and more. An 'essentials cheatsheet' is provided at the end of the article.

GOOGLE CO-FOUNDER SERGEY BRIN SAYS IN RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE THAT COMPANY ‘DEFINITELY MESSED UP’ GEMINI IMAGE LAUNCH

Alphabet co-founder Sergey Brin, who came out of retirement to work on AI, spoke to a group of artificial intelligence enthusiasts over the weekend at the 'AGI House' in Hillsborough, California, about AI's impact on search and how Google might maintain its leadership position as AI continues to grow. Brin commented on the launch of Google's image generator, saying that the company messed up due to a lack of thorough testing. He also spoke about other topics such as virtual and augmented reality hardware and Gemini's potential impact on products like Google Maps and Street View.

AGGREGATOR’S AI RISK

The Internet made publishing and distribution zero marginal cost activities. It created a new world of abundance, but it also created a new type of power given to those who had the ability to make sense of that abundance. Allowing anyone to publish didn't further decentralize power - new powers emerged to control discovery. Generative AI flips that paradigm around, collapsing all published knowledge into a single answer. This answer is unlikely to make everyone happy. A potential solution to this problem is to personalize AIs so they do a better job of giving people what they want to see.

ELYSIAJS

ElysiaJS is a Bun TypeScript framework that features end-to-end type safety, a unified type system, and an outstanding developer experience.

EPIC GAMES HACKERS SAY THEY FAKED THE WHOLE THING

Mogilevich, a group that faked a hack on Epic Games, sold fake data to eight buyers without providing proof of the hack.

GLEAM VERSION 1

Gleam is a programming language that makes writing and maintaining software systems predictable and stress-free - it is easy to read and understand and can be learned in just a few hours.

MIT JUST RELEASED DIRECTIONS FOR COMMERCIALIZING PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS

The paper is essentially a guidebook for how to tune perovskite surfaces to make sure that energy is not lost due to defects.

GOOGLE LAUNCHES $5M PRIZE TO FIND ACTUAL USES FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS

While quantum computers can perform specific tasks faster than classical computers, none of these tasks have real-world applications.