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Starting today, the npm registry will begin removing README content from package version metadata to reduce the size of package packuments and improve the performance of the registry and package managers, including the npm cli.
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Vultr offers a full NVIDIA GPU [4] stack with global access to the latest technology. With 32 cloud data center locations across 6 continents, their cloud infrastructure ensures global reach, enabling enterprises to power AI and ML at the edge efficiently.
Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, has launched an 'AI native' education platform called Eureka Labs. The company aims to create AI teaching assistants to guide students through course materials. These AI assistants will work with human teachers to allow anyone to learn anything. The venture's first product will be an undergraduate-level class that will help students train their very own AI. Eureka Labs will run both digital and physical classes.
The Taiwanese version of the FCC has leaked photos and details of the entire Pixel 9 series. The photos confirm that Google is moving the Pixel Fold's inner selfie camera to the corner of the screen and adding a new square camera arrangement. The Pixel 9 series will feature faster charging speeds and Thread support. It is expected to launch at the Made by Google event on August 13. The leaked pictures are available in the article.
The Airshield is a device that allows runners to train without experiencing any air resistance. Currently a prototype, the Airshield allows athletes to run faster than they are able to unaided, allowing their bodies to learn the neuromuscular sequences required to run at that speed. The wedge-shaped open-backed cart is towed behind an electric go-kart, which is steered along a running track by a human driver. Pictures and a video of the Airshield being used are available in the article.
France-based Zephalto, Florida-based Space Perspective, and Arizona-based World View are just three of the startups currently building balloons to hoist tourists to the stratosphere. Most of these balloons will reach heights of 15 to 19 miles above the Earth's surface. At that height, the outside of the capsules will be essentially a vacuum and the sky will be a deep black. Passengers will not experience weightlessness. There will be no physical requirements for passengers to board the balloons. Seats on the balloons range from $50,000 to around $184,000.
This article looks at how Hugging Face approaches developer relations. Hugging Face is well known for being a startup whose large online community also translates to massive multi-thousand-people meetups all over the world. The community-centric company prioritizes giving the spotlight to community members and collaborators as much as possible and provides compute and no-strings-attached cash grants to community members and communities. It also helps maintain open-source libraries and closely collaborates with other tools. The company aims to always take a collaborative approach to working with other groups, open-source platforms, and libraries.
This blog post contains a list of lessons learned by a developer from 35 years of making software. The advice covers topics such as relationships, chasing interests, how people see the world, different mindsets to develop, and more. A lot of career progression in white-collar work is gained through developing relationships.
The current regulatory system isn't set up to consider regulations in a long-term fashion in our technology-driven world. The FTC wants to create opportunities for non-Big Tech companies, but the reality of the technology ecosystem is very different. Many companies with the potential to grow bigger are staying private to avoid public market scrutiny. Regulators need to rethink what constitutes a monopoly in the digital age.
This article contains an interview with Tim Sweeney, Founder and CEO of Epic Games, and Neal Stephenson, the author who coined the term 'Metaverse'. The interview discusses the Metaverse, thoughts on its technological and economic growth, Apple's Vision Pro, blockchains, the ethics of generative AI, and much more.
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Amazon is keeping tabs on the number of hours corporate employees spend in the office to prevent them from leaving immediately after badging in.
Google offered a $500 million alternative deal to a group of cloud providers to maintain its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft.
iOS 18 gives users tools to easily customize the app icons on their homescreen and put app icons wherever they want.
Winning in open source means embracing the fact that you will share the commercial market for the software with other entities.
Safari 17.0 adds link tracking protection, blocking network loads of known trackers, advanced fingerprinting protection, and more to Private Browsing.
Virtual reality headsets are devices designed for selfish consumption, separating users visually from reality.
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The bad news is that threat actors are already using AI to collect user information for robocalls, imposter calls, and other types of fraud [4]. Real data + convincing voice impersonation can trip up almost anyone, and deep fakes are only getting better.
Eureka Labs is a new education-focused AI company designed to change how we learn new things.
Whistleblowers have accused OpenAI of placing illegal restrictions on employee communication with government regulators, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post, which urges the SEC to investigate OpenAI's severance, non-disparagement, and non-disclosure agreements for violating employees' rights to whistleblower incentives and compensation.
Several major AI companies, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce, used subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos across 48,000 channels to train AI models, despite YouTube's rules against unauthorized data harvesting. This has sparked backlash from content creators, who argue that their work has been exploited without consent or compensation, raising concerns about AI's impact on the creative industry and the ethics of using such training data.
HumanEval has long been the goal for coding models. It has essentially been solved. This benchmark is the next evolution for challenging science programming problems.
Mistral's newest math model performs well on various benchmarks.
Mistral has trained a Mamba 2 code model with extreme performance in long contexts and 75% on HumanEval.
Run your own AI cluster at home on everyday devices.
Decoupled Refusal Training (DeRTa) is a new approach that improves safety tuning in large language models by addressing refusal position bias.
Researchers have developed a Physics-Informed Diffusion (PID) model to improve the translation of RGB images to infrared images by incorporating physical laws into the process.
Great post by Yi Tay of Reka and Google on encoders, prefixlm, denoising objectives, and more modern tricks for language modeling.
A great suite of small language models from Hugging Face that outperform many larger models. The key comes in the careful curation of the dataset.
Redis has unveiled new data on the top vector databases comparing latency and throughput using the industry-standard Qdrant framework. Key findings include Redis outperforming competitors by 62% for low complexity datasets and by 21% for high-dimensional datasets, achieving significantly higher queries per second and lower latency than Qdrant, Milvus, and Weaviate.
Gray Swan AI is an AI safety and security company that specializes in building tools to help companies assess the risks of their AI systems and safeguard their AI deployments from harmful use.
Anthropic launched the Claude Android app to expand its AI chatbot's reach, aiming to attract users from ChatGPT by offering features like real-time image analysis, language translation, and syncing across devices.
Project Atlas generates complex business automation agents step-by-step, then it outputs a no-code drag-drop graph for you to edit.
The LI.FI bridge has been hacked for at least $8M. This has resulted in unauthorized withdrawals of up to $5.8M in ether and various stablecoins. LI.FI has advised users against interacting with its dapps while the issue is investigated. Users who did not set infinite approval should not be at risk.
Around 100 people donated crypto to Donald Trump's presidential campaign last quarter. Notable names included the Winklevoss twins and Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell. Crypto made up 1% of donation volume. Trump's acceptance of crypto has had a positive media impact on the crypto industry.
Chain GDP is a new on-chain metric designed to accurately gauge economic activity on a blockchain that focuses on the sum of all application fees generated within a chain. It is difficult to manipulate this metric (e.g., wash trading) because it only accounts for fees paid across various applications. Chain GDP aims to provide a clearer and more tamper-resistant picture of a blockchain's economic activity compared to traditional metrics like TVL or transaction count.
Uniswap has officially released its wallet browser extension. The extension is positioned directly in the browser sidebar, eliminating pop-ups and providing seamless access to crypto transactions. Uniswap's extension also offers automatic network switching and supports multiple blockchains, integrating smoothly with other Uniswap products.
The number of crypto owners worldwide is 400-500 million, over half of which come from Asia. The top 20 L1 chains boast 75 million monthly active users, and L2s have 20 million MAUs. 44% of non-owners cite instability and lack of government protection as reasons they will never buy crypto. The most popular cryptos in the US are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and Cardano.
This post describes an experiment that evaluated the crypto onramp experience for new users using Phantom Wallet. The experiment demonstrated significant challenges in the fiat-to-crypto conversion process. None of the available payment providers supported credit card transactions, potentially because of concerns around fraud and chargebacks, posing a large obstacle for retail onboarding. There is a need for more streamlined and integrated onramping processes to increase crypto user adoption.
This bull cycle, Ethereum may be the only tokenization platform with a spot ETF classified as a commodity, giving it a massive advantage in onboarding institutions like BlackRock's BUIDL fund. It is also the chain of choice for Coinbase, as evidenced by the Base L2. Institutions will pay premium transaction fees for its stability and liveness, and they will value its high cash flow and real yield.
Consumer apps do not get the same attention as high-valuation infra projects.
The protocol wars were a multi-decade debate on what standard the Internet should use, concluding with the adoption of TCP/IP.
Vitalik Buterin shares thoughts on how too much investment is going into specific types of infrastructure that benefit from high-risk ventures, while other essential infrastructures are underfunded.
Stripe will permit Europeans to use both their credit and debit cards to purchase Bitcoin
The Brooklyn Nets has updated its brand identity, unveiling a new "Nets Thread" logo that incorporates the letters of the team's nickname to resemble a basketball hoop and net. This script logo, inspired by Brooklyn's unique style and the team's New Jersey roots, joins other refreshed logos, including the "B-Ball" logo and the "Brooklyn Arch" logo, sticking to the team's black-and-white color scheme. While potentially seen as corny, the design cleverly ties in the sport's visuals with a fresh approach.
Videos of the potential Google Pixel 9 and 9 Pro XL have leaked on TikTok. They show an oval-shaped camera housing, a larger screen and three-camera setup for the Pro XL, and two cameras for the Pixel 9. Both models may feature "Google AI" for saving and searching screenshots, a faster ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, and a new pink color option. Google is planning an earlier-than-usual hardware event on August 13th.