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OpenAI is working on a web search to compete more directly with Google. It is unclear if the product will be standalone or part of ChatGPT. Competition in the search space is filling up quickly with the addition of Copilot on Bing, newcomers like Perplexity, and Google's Gemini Copilot. A YouTube Short featuring Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talking about competing with Google is available in the article.
The passthrough on Apple's Vision Pro gives users all the fidelity and depth perception they need to comfortably see what they're doing and navigate safely on foot. Its limited field of view and poor low-light visibility could pose issues when driving. While critics of the device say it takes people's attention away from reality, the Vision Pro may actually make users more aware of their surroundings as their eyes are always up and taking in the world (when in passthrough mode). This article details a first-hand experience of what it feels like to use the device in public.
MagicLab has unveiled MagicBot, a humanoid robot that can roast marshmallows and dance. The robot has exceptional balance and dexterity - it has the capability to execute somersaults. MagicBot has sub-millimeter positioning accuracy and a load capacity reaching several kilograms. Videos of the robot in action are available in the article.
The OpenTitan coalition has announced the first commercial silicon chip that includes built-in open-source hardware security. The chip, called Earl Grey, features a number of built-in hardware security and cryptography modules in a self-contained microprocessor. It uses a security protocol called Root of Trust, which provides an on-chip source of cryptographic keys that is inaccessible remotely. As part of the project, OpenTitan developed a framework for open-source hardware design that provides rules for documentation, pre-defined interfaces and quality standards, and a governance structure that lays out how different partners make decisions as a collective.
oink.php is a single-file API wrapper for PHP. It makes it easy to route endpoints, set parameters, and return responses. oink.php was designed to be simple and comfortable to use. Examples of using oink.php to create a blog and gallery are available.
OpenLLMetry-JS is a set of extensions built on top of OpenTelemetry that provides developers with complete observability over their LLM applications. It can be connected to existing observability solutions. OpenLLMetry-JS can instrument everything that OpenTelemetry already instruments. It also has custom extensions for instrumenting things like calls to OpenAI or Vector DBs.
robots.txt has kept the internet from chaos for three decades. The simple text file represents a deal between some of the earliest pioneers of the internet to respect each other's wishes and build the internet in a way that benefits everybody. It allows anyone who runs a website to tell the web who's allowed on the site and who isn't. The system used to work, but AI is now threatening to change everything. This article takes a look at the history behind robots.txt, how it works, different types of web crawlers, the tradeoff between sites and the search engineers crawling them, and how AI changes the balance of the internet.
Requests for Startups is a periodic feature from Y Combinator that gathers ideas and categories that it wants to see more people working on. The list is intended to provide founders with ideas on what to build. Readers should not feel like they need to work on one of these ideas to apply to Y Combinator - the company expects to fund only a small fraction of ideas from the list. The list covers areas such as robotics, machine learning, manufacturing, space, enterprise software, cryptocurrency, and more.
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Amazon AGI's Big Adaptive Steamable TTS with Emergent abilities model, or BASE TTS, has 980 million parameters and emergent qualities that improve its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally.
BYD is considering opening a plant in Mexico, which would make it cheaper for the company to sell cars in the US.
Chromium's team is prototyping Web Monetization, a community specification that lets websites automatically receive payments from online visitors via a web browser and designated payment service.
Performance improvement plans are cruel and a waste of everyone's time because everyone knows what's going to happen at the end of the plan.
If you work in tech, you won’t regret spending 3-5 years in the Bay Area - this post tells you how to make the most of your time.
Virtual influencers are digital characters used in social media and marketing campaigns to engage with real audiences.
OpenAI is experimenting with adding a form of long-term memory to ChatGPT. Users will be able to ask the chatbot to remember something, see what it remembers, and ask it to forget. The feature is currently available to a small number of users for testing. OpenAI hasn't revealed what technique it is using for the system, but the implementation is similar to that of Custom Instructions, a feature that was introduced in July last year.
Mark Zuckerberg recently posted a video to his Instagram account giving his official verdict on the Apple Vision Pro versus the Meta Quest 3. He says that the Quest 3 is the better product. The Quest 3 weighs less and its lack of a wired battery and wider field of view allows for greater motion. While Zuckerberg thinks the Vision Pro is a better entertainment device, he notes that the Quest has a better immersive content library than Apple. The video is available in the article.
A study has identified blood proteins that appear to predict the risk of developing dementia up to 15 years before diagnosis. High levels of the blood proteins GFAP, NEFL, GDF15, and LTBP2 are strongly associated with dementia. Blood levels of these proteins can be outside of normal ranges more than 10 years before symptom onset. The findings, once validated, may lead to the development of blood tests that identify people at risk of developing dementia.
Solar Radiation Management (SRM) is starting to gain more attention due to 2023's high temperatures. It's much easier to artificially dim the sun than most people imagine. Injecting sulfur into the stratosphere could be a cheap way to cool down the Earth. It would have an almost instant effect, but once it starts it would be dangerous to suddenly stop. SRM will not fix the root cause of the problem, but it could buy time for us to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. However, its implementation could make us more complacent about fixing the core issues.
GitButler is a git branch management tool built for modern workflows. It is currently available for macOS and Linux - Windows support is in development. GitButler lets developers work on multiple branches at the same time, allowing them to quickly organize file changes into separate branches while still having them apply to the working directory. It can push branches individually and directly create pull requests.
Antithesis is now coming out of stealth after five years of development. One of the fundamental problems of software development is that software has to handle many situations that the developers have never thought of or will never anticipate. To overcome this, Antithesis built a fully-deterministic platform that hunts for bugs in software. The platform is designed to one day be able to find many kinds of bugs in many kinds of software, but it currently focuses on distributed systems reliability/fault tolerance testing. Antithesis is now looking for organizations running distributed systems for testing.
Many developers agree that most of their best side projects are personal tools. Some of these tools end up being useful to others, so they end up being productized and make money. It's much easier to think about building for yourself compared to thinking about building for the masses. There are still plenty of new things that can be built.
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, received a TIME100 Impact Award for his contributions to the world of artificial intelligence on Sunday. LeCun sat down with TIME before the ceremony to discuss barriers to achieving artificial general intelligence, the merits of Meta's open-source approach, and claims that AI could pose an existential risk to the human race. This article contains an edited transcript of the interview.
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SGLang is a structured generation language designed for large language models that makes interacting with them faster and more controllable.
The games industry is undergoing a trend of mass layoffs that seems poised to span at least two years.
Stable Cascade is an image generation model that works at a much smaller latent space than other models like Stable Diffusion.
Mozilla plans to shut down Hubs and scale back its investment in its VPN, Relay, and Online Footprint Scrubber.
Microsoft no longer faces tighter controls on how it can operate Bing in the EU - the EU commission has also closed investigations into Microsoft's Edge and online advertising business.
$7 trillion would help OpenAI increase its chip supply and develop the next generations of GPT as fast as possible.
Hundreds of high-growth scale-ups [5] are already powered by WorkOS — including Vercel, Webflow, Plaid, and Loom.
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A number of Xbox exclusives are coming to the PS5 and Nintendo Switch. The first two games set to appear on rival consoles are Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment, with Sea of Thieves set to launch later this year. The move is a seismic shift in strategy - while it will give Microsoft more reach, it comes with plenty of risks. Microsoft plans to continue its Xbox hardware efforts, but its vision for the platform is unclear.
More than 600 apps made for the Apple Vision Pro were available when the device launched on February 2. Developers are complaining that weak discovery and search functionalities in the App Store are dampening the potential success of their apps. The top paid news app receives over 300 installs a day, which is great for a headset that just launched. Promoting apps on social media appears to give transient success, but this might not be enough for consistent gains over the long run.
The VR market size is growing fast but still relatively small. Retention is just OK - the technology is stickiest for use cases that most people might not understand. There is real money to be made in the space. One effective strategy seems to be using VR to create an experience that creates a lot of buzz and then add cross-platform capabilities, allowing apps to reach a much larger audience. The competition between the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest platforms will benefit developers and create more experimentation within the ecosystem.
Conductor is a platform for orchestrating microservices and events. It supports a wide range of database persistence layers and queuing services and has been battle-tested in production at Netflix. Conductor provides powerful flow control constructs, client libraries in multiple languages, and a distributed scalable architecture. It features a bundled UI with an integrated interface to create, refine, and validate workflows. It also has a full-featured API for custom automations.
Not all distributed systems are decentralized - many are not. One of the easiest and most practical ways to organize a distributed system is according to a hierarchy. The most prominent example of this is one of the drivetrain mechanics of the internet: DNS. This article looks at how DNS works. It covers how domains work, root servers, anycast, attacks, and more. While DNS may seem simple, it relies on a great deal of complexity within other parts of the system.
E/acc, or effective accelerationism, is a movement that is growing within the tech hivemind. Its founders believe that the tech world has become captive to a monoculture that is preventing it from producing meaningful benefits. E/acc encourages more ideas, growth, competition, and action. It is acting like a counterbalancing force to widespread public concerns about the risks posed by the tech industry at large. This article looks into the origins of e/acc and its impact on the tech industry.
Creativity can't be saved for later - it has to be discharged regularly or it will spoil. Being fully engaged at work is how you best plant the seeds for your own adventures. Those who constantly use up their creativity grow their intellectual granary many times over than those who keep holding back. People who turn boring problems into interesting pursuits always end up ahead in creativity and competence.
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Slack was a rare piece of enterprise software - it spread through word of mouth because it was actually good.
Most of the people attacking the car had their faces uncovered and the incident was recorded by both attendees and the Waymo car's cameras.
This study looks at how a large language model-based chess AI works.
If there was no material or energy scarcity, the only real scarcity would be a long attention span - there will be a need for tools for transmitting values and missions into the future.
Massed Muddler Intelligences are to AI what Service-Oriented Architecture is to traditional computing - similar to concepts like microservices, containers, and APIs.