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YOU ARE NOT LATE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A lot of people thought they were late to the internet, but there are even more opportunities now because of the advance in technology.

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GOOGLE SAYS YOU'LL NEED A SUBSCRIPTION TO USE BARD ADVANCED

Bard Advanced, which will be powered by the Gemini Ultra architecture, will be available to users as a subscription. Google has yet to reveal how much the subscription will cost or when it will be released. It will likely be available to early testers before being widely rolled out. Alphabet recently revealed that the company earned more than $15 billion in 2023 from subscription revenue.

MISTRAL CEO CONFIRMS ‘LEAK’ OF NEW OPEN SOURCE AI MODEL NEARING GPT-4 PERFORMANCE

Files for a quantized version of Mistral were leaked on HuggingFace on around January 28. Quantization is a technique that makes it possible to run certain AI models on less powerful computers and chips. The model surpasses every other LLM in the world except GPT-4 on EQ-Bench. Mistral appears to still be working on the model, so the final version may be even more capable.

ADD BACTERIA TO THE LIST OF THINGS THAT CAN RUN DOOM

An MIT biotechnology PhD student has created a rudimentary screen capable of displaying Doom using a simulation of E. coli bacteria. It takes roughly 70 minutes to display a single frame of Doom on the bioluminescent bacteria. A full reset takes eight hours and 20 minutes. A video about the project is available in the article.

REINVENTING THE EEL: FIRST LAB-GROWN EEL MEAT REVEALED

Forsea Foods in Israel is the first company to produce lab-grown freshwater eel meat. It aims to have its product on sale in about two years. The company's goal is to match the price of wild-caught eel. Forsea Foods' strategy is to target species at risk of extinction that also command high prices in restaurants and shops. It has raised $5.2 million in investments, with more expected to be announced soon.

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WHISPERKIT

WhisperKit integrates OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model with Apple's CoreML framework for efficient local inference on Apple devices with Swift. It can be integrated with Swift projects using the Swift Package Manager. WhisperKit automatically downloads recommended models, but it can also create and deploy fine-tuned versions. A link to a demo app is available in the repository.

THE PERFORMANCE INEQUALITY GAP, 2024

Performance is a deep and nuanced domain. There's a lot that can go wrong and how sites manage resources after-load can have huge impacts on perceived performance. Global baselines matter as many teams have low performance management maturity and many popular frameworks fail to ward against catastrophic results. This article looks at current web technologies to provide an up-to-date understanding for working web developers. It looks at what's changed since last year and what technologies new projects should consider.

WHY 2023 WAS AI VIDEO’S BREAKOUT YEAR, AND WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2024

There were no public text-to-video models available at the beginning of 2023, but now there are dozens in active use with millions of users worldwide. While many of these products are still limited, the progress in the past year suggests that the industry is about to massively transform. This article looks at the biggest developments so far in AI video generation, companies to keep an eye on, and the remaining underlying questions in the space.

HOW HARD IS IT TO CHEAT WITH CHATGPT IN TECHNICAL INTERVIEWS? WE RAN AN EXPERIMENT

ChatGPT can assist people during their technical interviews. An experiment on how much the tool can help and how easy it is to cheat uncovered an urgent need for companies to immediately change the types of interview questions they're asking. Interviewees in the study were able to trick professional interviewers and pass interviews without the interviewers suspecting them of cheating. Not only were interviewees not caught cheating, the interviewers also rated their confidence in their hiring decisions as high.

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THE PROMISE AND CHALLENGES OF CRYPTO + AI APPLICATIONS

Crypto and AI are two major technology trends from the last decade - while the technologies can be combined, there aren't that many useful applications where the two fields intersect.

MICROSOFT LASERS AWAY LLM INACCURACIES

Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (LASER) is a technique that involves replacing one weight matrix with an approximate smaller one, making it so the model relies less on it - the technique makes large language models more accurate.

STARLINK'S LASER SYSTEM IS BEAMING 42 MILLION GB OF DATA PER DAY

Starlink passes terabits per second of data every day across 9,000 lasers that can sustain a 100Gbps connection per link.

THE FIRST VERSION OF INFINITE CRAFT, AN ENDLESS CRAFTING GAME, IS OUT NOW!

Infinite Craft is a game where you combine two elements together to create new elements, which you can then use to combine with other elements to create new elements, which you can then use to combine with other elements to...

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND BENCHMARKS

Benchmarks are useful tools, but they're not the best indicators of real-world utility due to their narrow scopes, overfitting, contamination, reproducibility issues, and lack of scope.

THE END OF MY CHILDHOOD

A discussion on change by Vitalik Buterin, one of Ethereum's co-founders.

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CHATGPT USERS CAN NOW INVOKE GPTS DIRECTLY IN CHATS

Paid ChatGPT users can now bring third-party apps powered by OpenAI's AI models into a conversation by typing '@' and selecting a GPT from the list. The selected GPT will have a full understanding of the conversation. Different GPTs can be tagged for different use cases and needs. OpenAI plans to eventually introduce monetization for GPTs, but the company may have to get traffic up first. Moderation of GPTs is proving to be a challenge to OpenAI.

APPLE VISION PRO REVIEW: MAGIC, UNTIL IT’S NOT

RESEARCHERS APPROACH NEW SPEED LIMIT FOR SEMINAL PROBLEM

The traveling salesperson problem asks for the ideal route through a list of locations, minimizing mileage. It is notoriously difficult, but a mathematical model called linear programming is able to approximate the problem as a set of equations and find the best solution. Integer linear programming (ILP) is a variant of linear programming that optimizes for problems solving whole-number amounts. A researcher from the University of Washington has combined geometric tools to create a new, faster algorithm for solving ILP in almost the same time as a trivial binary case. It is the first major improvement to ILP solvers in nearly 40 years.

WHY FARCASTER FRAMES ARE IMPORTANT

Facebook's somewhat-forgotten Open Graph Protocol has been resurrected to power Frames inside Farcaster. Farcaster is a social network protocol built on the blockchain. Frames provide an easy way to run apps while users are still inside other apps. They make it possible to have a real and universal graph of user actions across consumer apps.

FOUNDATIONS

Foundations is a modular Rust library designed to help scale programs for distributed production-grade systems. It features logging, distributed tracing, metrics, memory profiling, service configuration with documentation, and a CLI helper that takes care of configuration loading. Foundations enables engineers to concentrate on core business logic rather than the intricacies of production operation setups.

PROTON

Proton is a streaming SQL engine powered by ClickHouse. It can help developers solve streaming data processing and routing and analytics challenges and send aggregated data to downstream systems. Proton is fast, lightweight, and the best streaming SQL engine for Kafka or Redpanda. A demo video is available.

READING THE FINE PRINT OF APPLE’S DMA RULES: 25 THINGS APP DEVELOPERS NEED TO KNOW

The EU's Digital Markets Act requires Apple to make changes to increase competition in the app industry. Several large companies have come out against Apple's changes, which seem to be designed to ensure Apple's ability to profit from apps continues regardless of how they're discovered and installed. This article covers details about Apple's new rules that developers should know. The article will be updated as more is uncovered from within Apple's documents.

SHOULD 4 PEOPLE BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE EQUIVALENT OF A NUKE?

Artificial General Intelligence will be an evolution of AI that can understand, learn, and apply intelligence to a wide range of problems. It will enable solutions to complex global issues, but also potentially lead to consequences as impactful and irreversible as those of nuclear war. While this is something the OpenAI board takes very seriously, the events in late November, which resulted in the previous six-person board of directors dropping down to one holdover member and two new people, are troubling. It is still unknown why the board did what they did. This article looks at the impacts of the November event and AI governance in general.

HOW TO DO THINGS IF YOU'RE NOT THAT SMART AND DON'T HAVE ANY TALENT

This blog post presents a list of things anyone can do to make meaningful contributions at work and do important work.

WHY THE AI BOOM IS A WINDFALL FOR TINY ANGUILLA

Anguilla is reaping millions from .ai website registrations.

THE CASE FOR—AND AGAINST—RAPID AI-DRIVEN GROWTH

Human-level AI will likely have a huge economic impact.

REACT EMAIL 2.0

React Email 2.0 features a re-imagined preview experience, massive performance improvements, new components, deployment to Vercel, and better support for monorepos.

HOW TO DEAL WITH RECEIVING A CEASE-AND-DESIST LETTER FROM BIG TECH

Anyone working with software that interoperates with Big Tech platforms outside of official APIs or services is at risk of receiving a cease-and-desist letter even if they don't see what they're doing as adversarial to the platform.

ICANN PROPOSES CREATING .INTERNAL DOMAIN TO DO THE SAME JOB AS 192.168.X.X

The proposal means the new top-level domain may never be delegated in the global domain name system root.

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ELON MUSK’S NEURALINK IMPLANTS BRAIN TECH IN HUMAN PATIENT FOR THE FIRST TIME

Neuralink implanted a device in a human for the first time on Sunday. The patient is recovering well, according to a post on X by Elon Musk. Neuralink is developing a brain implant that aims to help patients with severe paralysis control external technologies using only neural signals. The technology could help patients with severe degenerative diseases communicate and interact with devices using their minds. Neuralink has not disclosed how many human patients are involved in its initial in-human trial.

APPLE HAS SOLD APPROXIMATELY 200,000 VISION PRO HEADSETS

A source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers says that the company has sold more than 200,000 Vision Pro headsets. Pre-orders for the headset began on January 19. Media reviews for the device are set to go live today, so that could increase sales, and there is also an expected uptick in purchases after actual consumers begin sharing hands-on experiences. Apple is prepared for a limited number of sales due to the Vision Pro's niche market and high price tag.

SCIENTISTS THINK THEY'RE ON THE VERGE OF BREACHING THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER

The brain and spinal cord are well protected by the blood-brain barrier, which stops almost all drugs from entering the central nervous system. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are testing the delivery of lipid nanoparticles, fat-soluble packages that can pass through the blood-brain barrier and carry proteins, antibodies, and messenger RNA with them. The technique is able to pass some drugs through the blood-brain barrier, but not all of the medicine made it into brain cells when tested in living mice. The researchers are using a new in vitro model that will help guide the future development of brain-targeted treatments.

SCIENTISTS DOCUMENT FIRST-EVER TRANSMITTED ALZHEIMER’S CASES, TIED TO NO-LONGER-USED MEDICAL PROCEDURE

A decades-old treatment for a number of conditions that caused short stature, which involved patients receiving growth hormone taken from the brains of human cadavers, has been tied to some people as young as in their 30s developing Alzheimer's disease. The treatment, which was banned 40 years ago, transmitted unwanted proteins into recipients' brains, including the beta-amyloid protein that later propagated into the disease-causing plaques that are the hallmark of the disease. These are the first documented cases of transferred Alzheimer's - the disease is not usually contagious. The cadaveric growth hormone treatment has been long replaced with a synthetic hormone treatment.

THE BIG LITTLE GUIDE TO MESSAGE QUEUES

Message queues are a way to transfer information between two systems. They allow systems to communicate with each other in structured ways they can both understand and at a controlled speed they can both handle. This article discusses message queues, their history, why they're useful, how they work, and more. It compares many popular systems available today. The article covers fundamental concepts that underlie message queues and how they apply to popular queuing systems available today.

NEW GITHUB COPILOT RESEARCH FINDS 'DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON CODE QUALITY'

A recent study on the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code found disconcerting trends for maintainability. The percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored is projected to double this year compared to a pre-AI baseline. Using AI coding tools is strongly correlated with mistake code being pushed to repositories. While AI may be able to produce code faster, the code it produces needs to be cleaned up, potentially removing the benefits of fast code generation.

WHAT BIG TECH LAYOFFS SUGGEST FOR THE INDUSTRY

Microsoft's layoffs last year were worrisome because the company has a very good track record of predicting how its business will grow or shrink. Microsoft's business is incredibly diversified to the point where it can be pretty representative of the B2B tech industry, minus advertising. The company's decision to initiate layoffs suggested that the tech industry would stall growth-wise. Microsoft's announcements could have caused other large tech companies to follow suit and announce their own layoffs.

STARLINK'S LATEST OFFERING: GIGABIT GATEWAYS STARTING AT $75,000 PER MONTH

Starlink's latest new Community Gateways service for internet service providers can deliver gigabit speeds. For $1.25 million up front (and $75,000 per month), customers will receive help to build an entire facility dedicated to receiving up to 10Gbps in broadband speeds. ISPs will need to provide the land, power, and lifting equipment. The first Community Gateway was built on an island near Alaska. Pictures from the Community Gateway are available in the article.

IT TURNS OUT NASA’S MARS HELICOPTER WAS MUCH MORE REVOLUTIONARY THAN WE KNEW

Ingenuity demonstrated that powered flight is possible on other planets, forever changing the way humans will explore and settle other worlds.

META RELEASES ‘CODE LLAMA 70B’, AN OPEN-SOURCE BEHEMOTH TO RIVAL PRIVATE AI DEVELOPMENT

Code Llama 70B, one of the largest open-source AI models for code generation currently available, was trained on 500 billion tokens of code and code-related data and has a context window of 100,000 tokens.

GOOGLE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES RECAPTCHA FREE TIER, INTRODUCES NEW PRICING MODELS

Starting from April 1, Google's previous free reCAPTCHA service will be reduced from 1 million assessments to just 10,000 per month - a new reCAPTCHA standard plan will be introduced with 100,000 assessments for $8 per month.