This page contains a list of the biggest shell programs in the world. It only contains non-repetitive and non-generated programs. The biggest shell programs that aren't repetitive tend to be in the 10,000+ line range.
2024.12.09·github.com·4 min read·TLDR Artificial Analysis ranks different AI models to help developers choose the best model and provider for their use case. It has sections for language models and speech, image, and video models as well as leaderboards and arenas for image, video, and speech. Artificial Analysis supports a lot of models and APIs from a wide range of providers.
2024.12.09·artificialanalysis.ai·Tool·TLDR Brian Krebs is a 52-year-old cybersecurity researcher who has investigated and outed some of the worst actors on the internet over the past 20 years. He makes most of his money from banner ads on the website where he shares his findings, which pulls more than a million visits a month. Krebs is currently part of an investigation looking at members of an anarchic online community linked to home invasions designed to steal cryptocurrency at gunpoint and other cybercrimes known as the Com. This article goes into Kreb's career, the events leading him to live a secretive life, the investigation into Com, and more.
2024.12.09·links.tldrnewsletter.com·18 min read·TLDR We are currently watching the biggest transformation yet in how businesses scale: the separation of intelligence from service delivery. This is being driven by investors who understand that AI is about operating leverage. This article looks at the interesting ways private equity is separating the 'intelligence layer' from service delivery. The real opportunity isn't in building AI or buying companies, it's in creating entirely new financial structures.
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Grafana Labs has been recognized as a leader in the observability space in Gartner's latest report, and they've made the full document
X now allows users 10 free prompts every two hours, but they're restricted to analyzing three images per day.
2024.12.09·techcrunch.com·1 min read·TLDR Every new manager makes mistakes, but each one is an opportunity to grow - becoming a skilled manager takes time and continuous learning.
2024.12.09·terriblesoftware.org·7 min read·TLDR The provision was intended to prevent AGI from being misused for commercial gain, but OpenAI is under immense pressure to raise capital to continue its R&D.
2024.12.09·techcrunch.com·1 min read·TLDR This article looks at six tech champions that stood out for their growth this year.
2024.12.09·restofworld.org·12 min read·TLDR Reinforcement Fine-Tuning is a method for improving how AI models work through their reasoning for responses.
2024.12.09·techradar.com·2 min read·TLDR AI allows developers to iterate and experiment faster, but the hard parts of software development still require human judgment.
2024.12.09·addyo.substack.com·14 min read·TLDR Sponsored
Convergence's AI Agent, Proxy [4] just achieved state of the art results on the WebVoyager benchmark, topping Claude Computer Use (Anthropic), Agent E (Emergence), and Runner H (H Company).
2024.12.09·convergence.ai·Sponsor·TLDR AI xAI's Aurora is an advanced image generation model integrated into Grok 2.
2024.12.09·kingy.ai·4 min read·TLDR AI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning allows developers to train AI models to excel at specific, expert-level tasks by grading their responses against reference answers.
2024.12.09·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI's 12 days of “ship-mas” has officially begun, with the company set to reveal some new features, products, and demos during all 12 days starting December 5, just a few days shy of the second anniversary of ChatGPT's explosive launch in 2022.
2024.12.09·theverge.com·3 min read·TLDR AI An improved alignment method that has consistent depth estimation for videos. It is built on Dust3r and shows strong performance in 3D estimation.
2024.12.09·igl-hkust.github.io·8 min read·TLDR AI By training an image encoded, unsupervised, on a single long walking video, this work shows how clever model changes can result in extremely powerful representations.
2024.12.09·arxiv.org·25 min read·TLDR AI FlashAttention is an extremely performant software implementation of attention. It is hardware aware and prevents unnecessary I/O. However, it can be challenging to understand. This paper aims to clarify and simplify the algorithm with diagrams and explanations.
2024.12.09·arxiv.org·14 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
2024.12.09·lambdalabs.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI compared the performance of a single instance NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip to a single instance NVIDIA H100 SXM GPU, running Llama 3.1 70B inference with CPU Offloading. See the full benchmark
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2024.12.09·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI OCR-free document understanding with multimodal LLMs. It has strong chart understanding, table extraction, and more.
2024.12.09·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI 3D image and text generation models from Microsoft. These are the strongest models in the space today as they excel at 3D occlusions.
2024.12.09·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI OpenAI plans to introduce new AI features, including a text-to-video tool called Sora and a reasoning model, over a 12-day livestream event. Sora has faced criticism regarding data provenance, with concerns over the potential use of YouTube content without permission. Google is also developing a text-to-video tool, Veo, currently available for private review.
2024.12.09·engadget.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Google's Veo, a generative AI video model, is now available via Vertex AI for businesses. It creates high-quality 1080p videos from text or images. Veo includes safeguards and DeepMind's SynthID digital watermark to address copyright and misinformation concerns. Google has expanded access to Imagen 3 for text-to-image generation on Google Cloud, with new features for brand customization.
2024.12.09·theverge.com·3 min read·TLDR AI xAI is expanding its Colossus supercomputer facility in Memphis, adding one million GPUs to strengthen its AI capabilities. This move positions Memphis as a potential global hub for AI innovation, attracting major companies like Nvidia and Dell. The Greater Memphis Chamber supports this growth and has established a special team to expedite xAI's expansion.
2024.12.09·hoodline.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
In this recorded conversation, Turing CEO and Co-Founder Jonathan Siddharth chats with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the company's vision for beneficial, accessible, and safe AGI. Watch episode 1 of AGI Icons
2024.12.09·go.turing.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI OpenAI has partnered with Anduril Industries to develop AI solutions for military applications, focusing on counter-drone defense systems.
2024.12.09·maginative.com·3 min read·TLDR AI Meta's hybrid approach combines Llama and GPT-4 to optimize generative AI capabilities.
2024.12.09·infoworld.com·1 min read·TLDR AI AWS announced caching and intelligent prompt routing for its Bedrock LLM hosting service to optimize cost and performance.
2024.12.09·techcrunch.com·3 min read·TLDR AI David Sacks, a prominent venture capitalist and tech entrepreneur, has been appointed as Trump's "AI & Crypto Czar," signaling a pro-industry shift in the administration's approach to AI and cryptocurrency. While Sacks' role promises innovation-friendly policies, critics worry about potential conflicts of interest and lack of oversight due to his ties to Silicon Valley and crypto investments.
The Czech Republic is advancing legislation to exempt crypto held for over three years from capital gains tax and to eliminate tax reporting for transactions under $4,200 annually. These changes, aligned with the EU's MiCA framework, aim to bolster the country's crypto sector and simplify small-scale crypto usage.
Account Abstraction is evolving beyond simple gas fee abstraction to enable sophisticated programmable key management systems, with multiple approaches emerging for different use cases. This article outlines key innovations, including Passkeys with secure enclaves, MPC-based solutions, and session keys, highlighting how they can be combined to create more secure and user-friendly wallet experiences. Role-based access and key rotation and moving past 12-word seed phrases are particularly exciting developments.
SentientMarketCap is the first analytics platform for the AI agent ecosystem. The platform provides detailed social and token metrics for AI agent projects on Solana and Virtuals along with specific infrastructure tracking for frameworks. Much like the NFT boom of 2021, AI agents represent a fundamental shift in crypto, regardless of whether the speculation continues to increase or decrease.
This compilation of key crypto market insights from the past week highlights strong bullish sentiment driven by Trump's victory, record-high onchain Bitcoin demand, and increasing retail participation. Macro tailwinds support further upside but investors should be cautious about making common bull market mistakes. Market observers are particularly focused on asymmetrical opportunities and positioning strategies as it is believed we are heading into a 2025 bull market.
Crypto has reached a critical adoption point, with five assets passing $100B in market cap and a combined valuation of $3T, while unique addresses holding crypto have grown tenfold in four years to nearly 1B. Transaction volumes, stablecoin supply, active users, and revenues are all at all-time highs, demonstrating the increasing utility, accessibility, and economic activity across decentralized applications and networks.
The open-source framework eliza ($ai16z) has become the leading standard for AI agents, driving wallets, social integrations, and customizable apps with exponential growth in adoption. It averages 9 daily pull requests and is trending as a top GitHub repository. eliza has established itself as the infrastructure layer for next-gen AI ecosystems.
Cardano Foundation's X account was hacked on Sunday. The unknown hacker posted a fake Solana-based Cardano token and later falsely stated that there was an SEC lawsuit against the foundation. The hacker's attempt to decrease ADA's price may have had some impact on its 3.8% decrease on Sunday.
2024.12.09·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR Crypto Users on Base have now deposited ~$4B into applications on the network, an approximate 15x increase from ~$300M at the start of the year, reflecting a rapid growth in adoption and activity.
The top DeFi lending platforms by revenue this year are Sky Ecosystem ($270M), Aave ($68.2M), Venus Protocol ($22.11M), Compound ($10.55M), and Radiant Capital ($7.25M).
The U.S. Treasury has compared Bitcoin to digital gold amidst the rapid growth of digital assets.
22 countries, including Germany, Singapore, and Switzerland have no capital gains tax on crypto, arguably enabling innovation and wealth.
Key crypto events to watch this week include Microsoft's shareholder vote on buying BTC on December 10, Frax Finance's upcoming token upgrade and roadmap announcement, Polygon's Agglayer v0.2 testnet release on December 9, Treasure DAO's major gaming ecosystem announcement on December 11, and the $165M Aptos token unlock on December 11.
Pinterest's 2025 trend forecast highlights the bold, nostalgic, and sustainable aesthetics that will shape digital design and branding. From Rococo-inspired elegance to mood-driven color schemes, these trends provide fresh opportunities for creating impactful, audience-focused experiences.
Jaguar revealed its new electric four-door GT concept, Type 00, as part of its bold rebrand into the EV era. Featuring unconventional design and luxury materials, the design of the 1,000-horsepower car emphasizes innovation over tradition. Despite polarized reactions to its campaign, Jaguar aims to rejuvenate its image and attract modern car buyers.
2024.12.09·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR Design Airlines generated $12.4 billion from seat fees between 2018 and 2023 by exploiting dynamic pricing and using deceptive practices. Rising ancillary fees complicate ticket purchases with add-ons for seats, luggage, and extras. A Senate report criticizes these practices and recommends more substantial fee disclosures and investigations into their fairness under transportation tax laws.
2024.12.09·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR Design Design agencies thrive by aligning pricing, structure, and client needs. Big clients prioritize security, while smaller ones seek flexibility. High-value projects demand predictable costs, and collaboration outshines asynchronous work. Engineering integration boosts revenue but redefines agency identity. Design subscriptions fade - enterprise clients provide steady, significant income compared to flashy projects.