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Sam Altman and Jony Ive, former Apple design chief, have officially joined forces to develop an AI-powered personal device that won't resemble a smartphone. They are currently seeking funding of up to $1 billion.
Hugging Face’s popular and powerful inference server was briefly licensed under non-commercial to try and prevent larger businesses from hosting a competitive version. This didn't lead to improved business outcomes but did diminish community involvement. It has reverted to a more permissive license.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $2.4 billion investment package from Budget 2024 to reinforce Canada's AI sector. The package includes funding for computing capabilities, support for AI start-ups, and resources to ensure responsible AI adoption. These measures aim to accelerate job growth, enhance productivity, and maintain Canada's competitive edge in AI globally. The funds will also go towards creating a Canadian AI Safety Institute and strengthening enforcement of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act.
Prompt Auto-Editing (PAE) is a method developed by researchers to advance text-to-image generation using diffusion models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion. This innovative approach automates the refinement of text prompts by dynamically adjusting the weights and injection times of specific words, guided by online reinforcement learning.
Seg-NN is a framework that streamlines the process of 3D segmentation. By removing the need for extensive pre-training, these models quickly adapt to new, unseen classes without the typical domain gap issues.
This comprehensive survey explores the potential of Healthcare Foundation Models (HFMs) in transforming medical services. These models, which are pre-trained on diverse data, are well-suited to adapt to various healthcare tasks, potentially enhancing intelligent healthcare services across numerous scenarios.
LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA by Andrei Karpathy. No need for 250mb+ of PyTorch.
An LLM agent operating system that embeds a large language model into Operating Systems as the brain of the OS, enabling an operating system "with soul".
Anthropic has launched a public beta allowing Claude AI to interact with custom client-side tools provided in API requests. Developers must use the 'anthropic-beta: tools-2024-04-04' header to access the feature. Claude's functionality can be extended with detailed JSON schemas for each tool.
Neural networks' limited ability to generalize beyond their training data restricts their reasoning and reliability, necessitating alternative approaches to achieve artificial general intelligence.
A Pew Research Center survey indicates ChatGPT usage among U.S. adults has increased from 18% to 23% since July 2023, with upticks in occupational, educational, and entertainment contexts. Young adults and those with higher education are more likely to use ChatGPT. Reflecting general wariness about AI and politics, 40% of Americans distrust election information from ChatGPT. Despite tech companies' efforts to combat AI-generated misinformation, only 2% of Americans have used ChatGPT to seek election-related facts.
Flyflow is API middleware to optimize LLM applications.
Artifact's technology, not its team, is the focus of the deal, with co-founders Systrom and Krieger becoming special advisors.
Convenience chain Re-Up has introduced "The Wingman," a robotic fry cook by Nala Robotics, which uses advanced AI to prepare fried food.
Coinbase’s L2 continues to grow in popularity, becoming the third-largest Ethereum L2 by total value locked. It recorded an all-time high of over 36 transactions per second, with over 3 million transactions each day this weekend. Memecoins have been very popular on the L2, causing DEX daily volumes to surpass $1 billion last week.
Harvest Fund and Southern Fund, two large Chinese asset managers, have applied to launch Bitcoin ETFs in Hong Kong. Bitcoin Magazine alleges that the institutional interest from Chinese players, despite domestic regulatory resistance to crypto, may mark a shift in Bitcoin's acceptance and usage in Asia.
Karak takes the concept of EigenLayer and re-staking ETH but extends it to numerous other assets like stablecoins. New apps and protocols can leverage this security to create distributed secure services (DSS), similar to the actively validated service (AVS) on EigenLayer. Karak's team is also developing K2, a risk management L2 that will use DSS for security and act as the testing environment for DSS’ before launching on L1. Karak Private Access, which allows users to stake assets and earn points from several protocols, is live.
Tradable, a new platform for omnichain shared liquidity and distributed computing, has launched on 22 chains, aiming to address the fragmentation and limitations in current crypto applications. The platform introduces a Shared Liquidity Vault (SLV) and Omnichain IDs, allowing users to access liquidity across different apps and chains.
Pendle Finance allows users to manage yield through tokenization, which can then be traded or held for fixed returns. Its platform integrates with other DeFi protocols, providing various yield strategies. It includes governance features for token holders to influence protocol incentives and earn from transaction fees.
Stablecoins and other tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) have traditionally been used for arbitrage and as a volatility hedge. They are now increasingly being used for crypto-agnostic applications such as international remittances and inflation protection. With stablecoins settlement reaching $10T onchain annually, the utility of these digital assets extends to practical, everyday financial solutions. Other RWAs remain in the crypto-native phase, but as more options come on-chain, users will have access to less volatile investment options in assets like treasuries, stocks, and real estate.
The current issues with Solana are due to implementation bugs on its networking protocol, not fundamental design flaws, meaning the problems are more straightforward to fix. The team just has to swap out the faulty components. If a BMW has a steering problem, it doesn't imply that all cars are defective. Solana's choice of a buggy QUIC protocol implementation can be replaced without altering Solana's underlying architecture.
There is a lack of incentives for Layer 2s to continue decentralizing their operations. Centralization is great for product development and operations, allowing faster execution, more control over security, and quicker response to exploits in the form of chain freezes. Greater incentives are needed for L2s to upgrade to Stage 1 and 2 decentralization. Social pressure may not be sufficient to cause this transition.
NFTs are more likely to excel as digital collectibles rather than disrupting the traditional art market as their value hinges on the wider career of digitally native artists rather than any single collection.
Leading NFT exchange Tensor airdropped 12.5% of the total supply of TNSR tokens, worth $250 million, linearly distributed to early users based on their exchange volume.
The SushiSwap core Operations Team's proposal to centralize the project's treasury under a new Sushi Labs team has sparked community backlash and allegations of a "hostile takeover."
Trading bot jaredfromsubway exploited the frenzy around the newly launched ENA token from Ethena by making almost $300,000 in a day through sandwich attacks.
A secret startup co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design chief Jony Ive is in talks with significant venture capitalists for funding of up to $1 billion. The startup has held discussions with Emerson Collective, a venture capital firm founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, and Thrive Capital, an OpenAI investor. The startup's personal AI product aims to challenge the conventional smartphone experience and feature several OpenAI technologies, including its most advanced GPT models.
Apple's recent research on MobileCLIP, a family of efficient mobile-optimized image and text models, could profoundly impact its next generation of mobile devices. As part of its new multi-modal reinforced training approach, the company has also significantly improved learning efficiency by leveraging knowledge transfer. Technology like MobileCLIP will result in better image searches, real-time visual look-ups, improved object detection, and new augmented reality experiences, without needing an internet connection.
Rooms, a free 3D design platform created by ex-Google employees, lets users make 3D rooms and mini-games with over 7,500 digital items. It now has over a quarter million registered users. Users will be able to discover relevant creations more efficiently with a new Trending feed and new categories, including "Games," "Art," "Fantasy," "Nature," and even rooms inspired by popular IPs. There is also an Explore page with more ways to discover user profiles, top games, and all-time favorites. The app now offers "Honeycomb View," which allows you to view multiple rooms simultaneously in a hexagonal grid.
Remote work has dramatically expanded the competitive landscape in recent years, opening the field to a worldwide pool of skilled designers. Consequently, companies adapted their hiring practices, creating objections we must address to sell our services effectively. In these changing times, new strategies are necessary, such as improving your online presence and personal brand positioning, delivering unique value that supports a premium rate, and remaining open to flexible working arrangements that reduce hiring risk.
A user journey should have clear objectives, rely on user research to avoid making false assumptions, and understand how emotions affect users' decisions. A compelling user journey considers the context surrounding the user, including problems and issues, as well as all the touchpoints, channels, and what happens after conversion. User journey maps require a balance between simplicity and complexity and their design needs to be revisited periodically.
Design systems should be scalable enough to accommodate new products or verticals that deviate from the company's brand. The combination of CSS custom properties and Sass variables allows us to create a powerful theming system that overrides the system's defaults and creates a new scope of consistency.
Logo inspiration from a collection of logo examples from actual companies. The logos can be filtered by industry and style.
Riveo is a special effects video editor and maker that helps you create immersive, professionally edited videos.
Studio Kiln designed a dynamic identity for the Royal Television Society's 'Too Much To Watch' 2023 event featuring balloon-like letters symbolizing content abundance, adapted across touchpoints with bespoke lettering and contrasting typefaces.
In the 1990s, gaming embraced 3D technology, leading to flashy UI designs, until Sony's Wipeout prompted a shift towards stylish interfaces. Ridge Racer Type 4 drew inspiration from Gran Turismo, adopting a simple yet functional UI with a black/yellow palette, effectively enhancing the gaming experience and highlighting the significance of UI design.
According to rumors, the third-generation Apple Pencil will support Find My, have an interchangeable nib system, and enhance function management with a new gesture. The company is expected to announce the new Apple Pencil alongside the iPad Air and iPad Pro next month.
This year's hair trends favor natural texture and low-maintenance styling, mirroring content design's move towards resilient structures.
Modern operating systems let users choose color themes, which web developers can sync using CSS' light-dark() function, simplifying website theming and ensuring compatibility with system preferences.
While technologies are likely to change radically in the coming years, the core of design will remain human, allowing us to tell human stories more effectively than ever before.
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Hootsuite is set to acquire Talkwalker — the leading listening solution — to usher in a new era of social media performance. While the vast majority of businesses are on social media, most cannot connect to business impact that truly matters. With Hootsuite and Talkwalker together, social media marketers will have access to the broad cultural context, competitor intel, and specific customer feedback needed to perform.
The State of PPC 2024 Report summarizes survey responses from PPC professionals around the world. Nearly 50% of PPCers think managing campaigns is harder than it was 2 years ago due to decreased control and insights from ad platforms. Trust in ad platforms (especially Google Ads) is at an all-time low. 72% of in-house PPCers say efficient growth is the most important goal for campaigns in 2024. No email is required for download.
This post shares 5 methods for producing original research on a small budget. Connect Google Forms to Giftbit or Tango Card through Zapier to generate referral links and gift cards for anyone who takes your survey. Go on Fiverr and find specialist web scrapers who can mine data on sites like Reddit, Amazon, or Google Reviews. Subscribe to sentiment analysis tools like Talkwalker or Idiomatic to keep up with how people in your industry feel about specific topics.
Revolut’s marketing strategy is centered around making its fintech product so good that customers will do the marketing for it via word-of-mouth. Rather than having an always-on referral program, the brand runs various campaigns designed to bring in new users. Time-boxing the campaigns creates an extra push for users to invite others, in addition to offering a monetary incentive for the referrer. Revolut has also run campaigns that reward a physical card to the invitee, while the inviter interestingly receives nothing. It uses clever copy that makes users feel positive about themselves.
PayPal will now give small businesses access to 4 new features to drive payment acceptance and enhance how they run their business. The features include Apple Pay as a checkout option, the ability to save payment methods with the PayPal vault for faster future checkout, a real-time account updater to help customers keep payment methods current, and access to Interchange Plus Plus pricing.
This comprehensive guide demystifies the complexities of Automated Rules on Facebook. By automating changes to campaigns and ads, marketers can proactively optimize performance, reduce workload, and maximize ROI. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to access the tools and set up different types of rules. Rules can be used for different marketing objectives, including reducing auction overlap, optimizing ad creative, or enabling Advantage+.
SKIMS rolled out its latest March All-Stars campaign, which includes the nation's brightest college basketball stars donning the brand’s new loungewear. Strategic collaborations have been the brand’s key to success. The likes of Kate Moss, Alex Cooper, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Spice have all appeared in promotional content for the brand, helping it build a customer base of 70% millennials and Gen Zers.
In the evolving data privacy landscape, it is an illusion to think it’s possible to evade compliance through obscurity. This article discusses changes in regulators' stances and real-world cases like DoorDash's investigation over customer data shared with marketing companies. It emphasizes key themes that are on top of regulators' agenda, including transparency, opt-out requests, sensitive information from kids, and manipulative design patterns.