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Intel's CEO was very bullish on AI during the company's Q2 2023 earnings call. The company plans to ship its first consumer chip with a built-in neural processor for machine learning tasks later this year. It plans to eventually integrate AI into everything it sells. Integrating AI into consumer chips will allow AI processing to happen at the edge rather than on the cloud, improving latency, bandwidth, and costs.
The cost of lithium has increased tenfold since 2020. Scientists from Arizona State University have proposed diluting lithium with sodium as a solution to cutting the cost of batteries. The team found that a lithium solution with up to 20 percent sodium mixed could remain stable. However, the resulting structure did not possess the properties necessary to create a viable battery.
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Overflow AI is Stack Overflow's new plan to integrate generative AI into its platform. It includes adding new search capabilities, the ability to curate and build a knowledge base in minutes, Slack integration, a Visual Studio Code extension, and a dedicated location for AI resources and responses from experts. Developers interested in helping Stack Overflow test its new AI-powered features can register to help on the Stack Overflow Labs page. Stack Overflow aims to keep its developer community at the center and ensure that the people who contribute their knowledge are recognized for their efforts.
BlazingMQ is a distributed message queueing platform. It provides a set of message routing strategies and supports a unique multi-hop network topology that leads to a distribution tree for each queue, creating network bandwidth savings for certain use cases. Using BlazingMQ can lead to significant savings in network and latency for high fan-out workflows.
Every prefecture in Japan posted a population drop in 2022. Japan's total population dropped by more than 800,000 last year. Other countries are likely set to follow Japan's lead. Japan's prime minister has called the trend a crisis, but national policies have so far failed to put a dent in population decline.
Stack Overflow's CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar recently conducted an interview where they discussed generative AI technology and Stack Overflow's strategy around dealing with it. This article analyses Chandrasekar responses in the interview. It presents the unedited transcript along with the analysis to allow the reader to interpret the original context. The analysis suggests that Chandrasekar hasn't listened to the Stack Overflow community and that their understanding of the site, its community, and culture is very surface-level.
This post covers three distinctive perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.
Apple's new policy requiring developers to justify their use of certain APIs aims to crack down on fingerprinting.
This Twitter post describes how Cloudflare stores its data on 15-20 PostgreSQL clusters.
Many people have asked Twitter to preserve a light mode option even if X switches to dark mode as a default.
PeerDB is a data-movement platform that makes moving data in and out of Postgres fast and simple.
There are net-takers and net-givers - most of the richest are net-givers.
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Continue is a VS Code extension that brings the power of ChatGPT to the IDE. It can answer coding questions, edit in natural language, and generate files from scratch. A GIF showing what the extension looks like is available.
Fern is an open source tool to automatically generate idiomatic client libraries and Stripe-like API documentation. Find out why companies like Scale AI and Flatfile already use Fern to develop their APIs and generate their SDKs, learn more and star us on GitHub [https://danni763618.typeform.com/to/c4o3Nwrq]!
ChatGPT's new custom instructions feature lets users tell the chatbot things it should always know about them and how to answer questions. It is designed to make ChatGPT quicker and more helpful as a virtual assistant. Custom Instructions is available now for ChatGPT Plus subscribers everywhere but the UK and EU on an opt-in basis. The feature is still in beta. It works everywhere that ChatGPT does.
Microsoft is making Meta's Llama 2 model available on its Azure cloud computing service. Meta said in a blog post that Microsoft is its preferred partner for Llama 2. The partnership will give developers more choice in the models they build on. Meta says that it is not focused on monetization for Llama 2. Llama 2 will also be available through Amazon web services and Hugging Face.
The US Federal Reserve is set to launch FedNow, a service that will allow US citizens to send and receive funds in seconds. FedNow has been in the works since 2019. It will launch with 41 banks and 15 service providers, with more banks and credit unions to be onboarded later this year. FedNow payments will settle directly in central bank accounts. There will be no fees from FedNow to use the service. FedNow has a maximum payment limit of $500,000, but banks can choose to lower that cap if required.
Lifelong Learning (LL) is a growing area of machine learning research in which AI agents continually learn as they encounter new tasks while retaining knowledge of previous tasks. A team of LL researchers recently discovered that AI agents can quickly learn a wide range of tasks by sharing knowledge with each other at the same time. Their system has many similarities with the concept of crowdsourcing. The researchers believe that their technique could transform any field that requires vast, diverse knowledge or dealing with complex systems.
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A limited public beta release of GitHub Copilot Chat is now available to enterprise companies and organizations on Visual Studio and VS Code. GitHub Copilot Chat turns GitHub Pilot into a context-aware conversational assistant, allowing developers to execute tasks with prompts. The feature will help developers create much faster and democratize software development as we know it. Information on how organization admins can enable the feature is available in the article.
Ollama allows users to run and package large language models on macOS. It includes a library of open-source models, including Llama2, Orca Mini, Vicuna, and Nous-Hermes. At least 8 GB of RAM is needed to run the 3B models, 16 GB for the 7B models, and 32 GB for the 13B models.
Netflix is in better financial shape than its industry rivals and can make better deals. It will likely not be affected by ongoing strikes in Hollywood by writers and actors. Netflix could force a settlement to the strikes before its rivals get back to business. Wall Street analysts estimate that Netflix will be earning up to $9.5 billion annually by 2025.
Several companies, including Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, have committed to certain safeguards for their technology until Congress passes legislation to regulate AI. Officials want to make sure that the technology is developed responsibly and in a way that benefits society without negatively impacting the safety, rights, and democratic values of the public. The tech firms have agreed to eight measures, including letting independent experts test models for bad behavior, investing in cybersecurity, flagging societal risks, and watermarking AI-generated audio and visual content. A full list of the measures is available in the article.
Some journalists think that Google's Genesis assistant can be misused and cause damage to the organizations that use it.
GitID is a command-line tool that can manage and switch between multiple git SSH identities on a single user account.
While the feature hasn't been officially released, some verified organizations have been able to post job listings already.
Chrome extensions in Chrome 116 will allow developers to programmatically open a Sidepanel, record audio and video in the background, keep service workers alive for longer, and much more.
Meta's recent deal with Microsoft to bring LLaMA to Microsoft's Azure platform suggests that the industry may see a growing number of partnerships, not just head-to-head competition.
Unshackle is a tool that can bypass Windows and Linux user passwords from a bootable USB.
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