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BIG TECH AND THE PURSUIT OF AI DOMINANCE

A new wave of AI models is causing a frenzy of activity in the tech world. The contest for AI is heating up and it will change the way big tech deploys the technology. Tech giants have been working on AI for years and they have the data, computing power, and users to thrive in the age of AI and to become dominant in the industry. However, there are many examples of dominant companies in the past making missteps during periods of significant change and falling into bankruptcy or irrelevance.

ALOHA

ELON MUSK’S NEURALINK SEEKING PARTNER FOR CLINICAL TRIALS

CURSOR

Cursor is a new programming editor that uses AI to generate code. It offers a range of features, including assisting with code editing, fixing lint errors, generating tests, comments on hover, and more. Users can interact with Cursor through a ChatGPT-style interface that understands the content of the file they are working on.

AI-ENHANCED DEVELOPMENT MAKES ME MORE AMBITIOUS WITH MY PROJECTS

CHATGPT GETS A COMPUTER

TECH’S AI ARMIES ARE HUGE, YET STRUGGLING TO INNOVATE

Silicon Valley's most significant firms have amassed large AI teams, yet lack innovative services with substantial impacts. While the industry's leading technology firms possess an estimated 33,000 people devoted to AI research and development, they have been slow and cautious in their approach to services featuring the technology. It took the launch of ChatGPT to prompt them into action. The larger tech firms' approach has highlighted the importance of careful exploration, but it also shows how caution can slow down progress.

TROUBLED SILICON VALLEY BANK ACQUIRED BY FIRST CITIZENS

WEBKIT FEATURES IN SAFARI 16.4

WHAT SHOULD I BUILD?

THE PROSPECT OF AN AI WINTER

HERE IS THE FBI’S CONTRACT TO BUY MASS INTERNET DATA

BROWSE THE WEB AND MORE

TESLA’S WIRELESS CHARGING PLATFORM DOES WHAT AIRPOWER COULDN’T

INSTEAD

JPMorgan plans to start beta-testing a system that would let users pay with their palm prints or through face recognition technology. The bank plans to extend the service to its broader base of US merchant clients if the test is successful. The pilot program could include a Formula 1 race in Miami and a few brick-and-mortar shops. Biometrics technology is projected to account for approximately $5.8 trillion in transactions with three billion users by 2026.

CHEATING IS ALL YOU NEED

YOU MIGHT NOT NEED AN EFFECT

CANCEL BY PHONE

ACTIVIST SHORT SELLER

AMAZON'S HR BOSS REJECTS EMPLOYEE REMOTE WORK PETITION

IS THERE A DROP IN SOFTWARE ENGINEER JOB OPENINGS, GLOBALLY?

“WORTHLESS”

ENVIO

Envio is a command-line tool that simplifies the management of environment variables across multiple profiles.

CHINA REMINDS US THAT IT CAN AND WILL KILL A FORCED TIKTOK SALE

CSS NESTING IS NOW AVAILABLE WITH VANILLA CSS

HILL

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is set to appear in front of the US Congress in his first congressional hearing to address concerns over the security of TikTok. Some US lawmakers believe TikTok is a Chinese spying and propaganda machine. Chew has been working to allay suspicions and convince lawmakers that ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is unconnected to the Chinese government. The outcome of the case will set a precedent for the ability of US lawmakers to ban social media companies.

MOZILLA LAUNCHES A NEW STARTUP FOCUSED ON ‘TRUSTWORTHY’ AI

A HORMONE SHOT HELPED DRUNK MICE SOBER UP QUICKLY

ANIMALS WITHOUT A BRAIN STILL FORM ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES

WRITE AND FIX CODE

YTSAURUS

YTsaurus is a distributed storage and processing platform for big data designed to provide a fault-tolerant environment. It features a multitenant ecosystem, reliability, stability, scalability, and rich functionality. YTsaurus supports up to 1 million CPU cores and thousands of GPUs with exabytes of data on different media. It also has a variety of SDKs and APIs that make it easy to use.

GOOGLE ENGINEERING LEADER URS HÖLZLE SHARES PLAN ON EFFICIENCY

Google engineering head Urs Hölzle plans to increase efficiency by rebalancing the ratio of site reliability engineers to developers through automation. Site reliability engineers manage operations, while software engineers work on infrastructure and products. There is currently one site reliability engineer for every 10 software engineers. The new target will have one site reliability engineer for every 20 software engineers. This has sparked speculation of potential layoffs.

TECH IPOS IN HISTORY

This article goes in-depth about Shou Zi Chew's life and background. Shou Zi Chew is the CFO of Bytedance and CEO of TikTok. At 39 years old, he attended Harvard Business School and previously interned for Facebook during its start-up phase. Prior to joining Bytedance, Chew was the CFO of Xiaomi and spent two years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

PEBBLE MIGHT BE COMING BACK — AS A SMALL ANDROID PHONE

SEC THREATENS TO SUE COINBASE OVER STAKING, MORE

OFFICE DOCUMENTS

I SAW THE FACE OF GOD IN A SEMICONDUCTOR FACTORY

A look inside Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's factories.

CLOSE SHOP AND RETURN FUNDING

MODEL ARBITRAGE

Model arbitrage refers to the practice of leveraging pre-existing large language models to generate new synthetic datasets for training other models.

MICROSOFT BRINGS OPENAI’S DALL-E IMAGE CREATOR TO THE NEW BING

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

STATION—BY BECOMING A PRIVATE COMPANY’S TENANT

THE QUEST FOR INJECTABLE BRAIN IMPLANTS HAS BEGUN

While brain implants have the potential to significantly improve patients' lives, the brain and metal do not work well together. Electrodes can cause injury and scar tissue, which in turn makes devices less effective. To avoid this problem, a team of scientists has designed a gel that can be injected into tissues and solidifies into an electrically conductive polymer. This polymer electrode is harmless and can be moved just as easily as the brain tissue around it. The gel could enable flexible electronic neural implants in the future.