LinkedIn has launched a new sponsored video program called The Wire that will enable brands to run in-stream video ads alongside trusted publisher content. The platform has partnered with a number of high-profile publishers for the initiative, including Barron's, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Forbes, MarketWatch, and NBCUniversal. LinkedIn is also adding more AI capabilities to its ad tools, including an ad creative generator, enhanced targeting, and an improved AI assistant.
Klaviyo has launched an integration with TikTok that enables businesses to sync their Klaviyo lists and segments to TikTok Audiences. This new capability is designed to enable greater return on ad spend (ROAS), deliver personalized advertisements, and build high-impact lookalike audiences to attract new buyers.
Gong, an AI-powered platform that captures and analyzes customer lifecycle data, has reached more than 4,000 clients and become a billion-dollar company. Rather than trying to position itself as a solution in an established market category, the company created a new one (revenue intelligence) and framed itself as “the undisputed leader.” Gong uses AI to define the key points and best next steps for its customers, which helps them get value quicker instead of wasting energy organizing the data manually. It was one of the first SaaS companies to leverage its team's personal brands to propel growth - this cultivated a sense of unity within the industry and resulted in massive marketing reach on LinkedIn.
AI agents are beginning to handle narrow end-to-end tasks autonomously. AI-driven teams will eventually be able to manage everything from market research to performance marketing and brand campaigns based on a company's goals and budget inputs. This will enhance personalization, allowing for 1:1 marketing that outperforms traditional broad-audience approaches. Marketers will need to stay ahead of AI developments and ensure they maintain oversight for quality control.
Kirameki is a groundbreaking light field display that creates a 3D visual experience, enhancing online and in-store shopping by providing accurate product representations.
Celsius, an energy drink company, bypasses the high costs of official Olympic sponsorship by partnering directly with athletes to increase brand recognition.
Whether you're a team of four or 40,000, dev teams need to collaborate on APIs. API Collaboration [5] improves developer productivity by empowering API producers and consumers to share, discover, and reuse high-quality API assets.
Load balancing algorithms distribute network traffic across multiple servers based on specific criteria. Round Robin sequentially distributes requests, while Weighted Round Robin considers server capacity. Least Connections prioritizes servers with fewer active connections. IP Hash uses client IP addresses for session persistence. Advanced methods like Least Response Time and Weighted Least Connections combine multiple algorithms together.
This blog post explores different architectures for building real-time collaborative applications with a central server. It discusses the challenges of server-side rebasing and solutions. The post also delves into the complexities of handling text and list editing in collaborative apps and recommends using optimistic local updates to improve user experience.
This Reddit poster overcame their habit of abandoning side projects and successfully launched their first paid SaaS product by identifying and addressing the reasons they usually quit. They tackled the complexity of projects by keeping the scope small and sticking to familiar technologies. Time constraints were overcome by creating dedicated time in the mornings and weekends, making sure the project could be completed within a month. To prevent burnout, they delegated tasks at work, took a vacation before starting the project, and used different technologies than their day job.
This author has changed her opinion a lot after a decade of professional software engineering. They believe that there's no single "right" way to do things, code isn't the most important aspect of software engineering, and software development is inherently political. Communication and empathy are more important in the industry than she initially thought.
Engineering managers need to understand and tailor their approaches to each team member's unique needs and communication styles. Being a manager means that the business impact of your team's output is even more critical than before. Meetings are not always bad - they are valuable for aligning stakeholders and transferring information faster than other methods.
Mesop is a Python-based UI platform used at Google to build internal UIs quickly for demos and other apps. It helps Python devs skip the frontend learning curve so that they can deploy their apps quickly.
BlockNote is a React Rich Text Editor that's block-based (Notion style) and extensible. It comes with features like animations, drag-and-drop blocks, a slash menu, a format menu, helpful placeholders, and real-time collaboration support.
Experts.js simplifies the creation and deployment of OpenAI's Assistants, allowing them to be linked together to form a Multi-AI Agent System with expanded memory. It uses OpenAI's Assistants API, which allows for larger context windows, more complex interactions, and better integrations with tools.
Apple has secretly included Thread radios in many of its newest products, such as the iPads, MacBooks, and iMacs. The Thread radio is a low-power, low-bandwidth mesh networking protocol ideal for smart home devices. While Apple hasn't commented, the inclusion of Thread in these devices could mean they could serve as home hubs, connecting directly with smart home devices, and act as Thread border routers.
A group of current and former OpenAI employees, along with two from Google DeepMind, have published an open letter criticizing OpenAI's prioritization of profits and growth over AI safety. The whistleblowers claim that OpenAI has used restrictive agreements to silence employees' concerns. While some see the letter as evidence that AI safety concerns are valid, others criticize it for lacking concrete details and focusing on hypothetical risks.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a generative AI method consisting of two models: a generator and a discriminator. The generator tries to create realistic samples from a training data distribution, while the discriminator aims to distinguish between real and generated samples. The two models are trained in a competitive process, with the generator improving its ability to generate realistic samples and the discriminator enhancing its ability to differentiate them. This article goes through building GANs from scratch.
Laudspeaker is an open-source customer engagement and product onboarding platform that can be used to design product onboarding flows and send emails to customers.
Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. But getting that kind of coverage — and staying there — is hard and pricey for any sized team. QA Wolf [4]takes testing off your plate:
Google has scaled back AI Overviews. The AI-generated answers are now appearing in around 11 percent of queries, down from around 27 percent when the feature was launched last month. The company is still in the process of refining the feature. AI Overviews are appearing most in health-focused searches, despite the company highlighting the tool's use for shopping, restaurant recommendations, and travel in its marketing.
Elon Musk redirected 12,000 H100 GPUs ordered by Tesla to X. He had told investors in April that Tesla had spent $1 billion on GPUs in the three months of the year. Tesla has been developing its own in-house supercomputer for AI, but Musk has previously said that it would be redundant if the company could source more H100s. X's order of 12,000 H100s will be redirected to Tesla.
Advisors for the Food and Drug Administration have voted overwhelmingly against approving MDMA as part of a therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. While results from clinical trials showed positive results, a deeper look at the data uncovered a large number of trial flaws that threw the validity of the positive results into serious question. The FDA is conducting an investigation into accusations of possible data manipulation during the trials. There were claims that some of the trial participants were discouraged from reporting negative responses to the therapy.
A mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma halves the risk of patients dying or the disease returning after three years. The vaccine is custom-built for each patient and specific to each patient's tumor. The average risk of recurrence for the type of advanced cancer the study focused on is 50%, but the vaccine brought the risk of recurrence down to 25%. The data from the study suggests that levels of cancer relapse did not increase in people with high-risk, advanced-stage melanoma.
Okay, you probably don't. But you're still allowing data brokers to sell spammers your personal data — your home address, SSN, phone number, and more. Incogni [11] scrubs your personal info from the web. 3 minutes to set
SDKs are not always beneficial and can complicate the development process. They often organize API interactions differently to how developers want them, have hidden complexities, use outdated dependencies, and have learning overhead. Using direct API calls allows for offline development, custom typing information, and easier swapping of vendors. SDKs can still be useful for deep integration with a service, but for simple API integrations, they introduce too much unnecessary bloat and cognitive overhead.
Staging Ground is a private space where new askers on Stack Overflow can get help from experienced users to improve their questions before posting to the broader community. Reviewers provide feedback on how to improve questions by leaving comments and moving questions into different statuses based on how much the questions need to be improved. Staging Ground was created to improve the new user experience while also increasing the quality of questions on Stack Overflow. It is now available to all new question-askers on the platform.
Everyone is talking about AI, but few know what is about to hit them. This book looks at what the future holds for AI. It discusses the road to AGI, superintelligence, scaling, security, and more. While many people may think that those in the AI industry are crazy, those that built the technology believe that it will change the world before the decade is out.
This post presents tips on how to stay up to date on information and how to maintain an information ecosystem. Your ability to be effective is a function of your ability to efficiently ingest the information around you. Stay informed and advance your own work while also keeping others informed so they can do the same. One of the most important tools to use is to just decline to engage - don't let things linger or get talked into work you don't think is a good use of your time.
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Meta will refocus its core product suite to focus on the discovery of content relevant to younger audiences, put a greater emphasis on short-form videos within Facebook, and develop a professional mode to make the app more creator-friendly.
While still very far from fully resolving the Riemann hypothesis, the breakthrough is the first substantial improvement to a classical 1940 Ingham bound regarding the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function.
The FAA has issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission as the company has met all safety and other licensing requirements for the flight.
ht is a command-line program that wraps an arbitrary other binary with a VT100-style terminal interface, allowing easy programmatic access to the input and output of that terminal.
Email is one of the main ways companies communicate with customers — but very few companies know how to parse unstructured email text into useful data [4].
A group of current and former AI employees is calling for advanced AI companies to commit to principles that ensure transparency and protection for employees who raise risk-related concerns. They highlight the need for companies to avoid enforcing non-disparagement agreements, facilitate anonymous reporting processes, support open criticism, and prevent retaliation against whistleblowers.
Over 900 people attended last year's Conference on Robot Learning, which featured 11 workshops and almost 200 accepted papers. One of the largest debates at the event was whether training a large neural network on a very large data set was a feasible way to solve robotics. This post presents the different sides of the argument to deepen people's understanding of the debate. Scaling has worked for other similar fields. However, it is impractical as there isn't much robotics data available and there's no clear way to get it. Even if scaling works as well as in other fields, it likely still won't solve robotics.
Sam Altman is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific and aggressive individual investors. He manages an investment empire with holdings worth at least $2.8 billion as of early this year. Much of the portfolio isn't widely known. This article takes readers through what's known about Altman's investments.