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NVIDIA JUST LAUNCHED FREE COURSES IN AI

Nvidia recently launched a series of AI courses - this is a curation of the 5 best ones for beginners.

U.S. SUES APPLE, ACCUSING IT OF MAINTAINING AN IPHONE MONOPOLY

Apple is being sued by the US for employing a strategy that relies on exclusionary anticompetitive conduct that hurts both consumers and developers. The 88-page lawsuit says that the company violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and make them less likely to switch to competing devices. It seeks to put an end to those practices and possibly a breakup of the company. The lawsuit is likely to drag out for years before any type of resolution.

HERE’S HOW MICROSOFT IS PROVIDING A ‘GOOD OUTCOME’ FOR INFLECTION AI VCS, AS REID HOFFMAN PROMISED

Unnamed sources say that Microsoft is paying approximately $650 million in its deal with Inflection AI. $620 million was paid for non-exclusive licensing fees for Inflection's technology and $30 million was paid to get Inflection to agree not to sue over Microsoft's poaching. Inflection will pivot away from building a personalized AI chatbot to becoming an AI studio that helps other companies work with large language model AI. Microsoft has several reasons for needing a backup for OpenAI - for one, its deal with OpenAI is being scrutinized by the FTC.

PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANTED INTO LIVING PERSON FOR FIRST TIME

Doctors have performed a pig-to-human kidney transplant for the first time at Massachusetts General Hospital, the first hospital to perform a kidney transplant. The genetically modified kidney was implanted into a 62-year-old patient who had been diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease. They are recovering well and are expected to be discharged from the hospital soon. It is unknown how long the kidney will last for. This was the third transplant of a pig organ into a living human. The first two patients, who received heart transplants, died weeks after receiving their organs.

THE BAFFLING INTELLIGENCE OF A SINGLE CELL/

E. coli cells forage for nutrients using a process called chemotaxis. While the bacteria don't have brains, they possess something similar to a sense of smell, drive, and even memory. Chemotaxis involves 'smelling' chemicals and then deciding where to swim. The system is able to adapt to different environments with varying levels of attractant concentration. This article introduces the clever system that powers chemotaxis and explains how the complex signaling network works.

DROPFLOW

Dropflow is a CSS layout engine with a high-quality text layout implementation capable of displaying many languages. It can generate PDFs or images and render rich wrapped text to a canvas in the browser. Dropflow supports bidirectional and RTL text, font fallbacks at the grapheme level, colored diacritics, optimized shaping, and much more.

TORTOISE

Tortoise is an automated solution designed to meet all Kubernetes resource optimization needs. It shifts optimization responsibility from service owners to platform teams, requiring service owners to configure only a minimal amount of parameters to initiate autoscaling. Tortoise allows for comprehensive tuning by platform teams. It currently only supports deployment - support for all resources supporting scale subresources is in development.

THE REDDITS

Reddit was one of the reasons Y Combinator was started. This post tells the story of how the site came to be. Despite being rejected in the first round for their food delivery app idea, Reddit's founders were offered funding after agreeing to work on a project that would eventually become Reddit. The project was launched on a quick schedule. It had a core set of real users after just a few weeks. Reddit is now a fundamentally useful tool that seems almost unkillable.

CHOOSING STARTUP LIFE

This article discusses things to consider when thinking about joining a startup. A job may provide higher salaries, more perks, security, less stress, and other benefits, but working in a startup can result in huge payoffs. Startups require a ton of challenging work to be successful, they have minimal infrastructure in place, and startup employees have lower salaries. However, startup employees own a portion of the company, and this could be worth a lot in the future.

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WHO CARES ABOUT TECH REGULATION?

Most people in tech don't care much about tech regulations - they don't really affect what people are working on.

UNIVERSITIES HAVE A COMPUTER-SCIENCE PROBLEM

Universities are treating computer science as though it were a technical school for producing a certain type of professional when it should be a superordinate realm of scholarship similar to arts or engineering.

DUCKDB AS THE NEW JQ

DuckDB has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies - it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table.

U.S. VERSUS APPLE: A FIRST REACTION

The US Department of Justice, 16 states, and the District of Columbia are suing Apple for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, which specifically regulates monopolies, making some things that are legal for regular companies to do illegal when monopolies do them.

ASK HN: HOW TO ONBOARD YOURSELF TO A NEW PRODUCT/INDUSTRY IN A NEW JOB? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

Put aside your ego, get into a beginner's mindset, and ask all the stupid questions.

ELON MUSK COMPANIES ARE GOBBLING UP NVIDIA HARDWARE EVEN AS TESLA AIMS TO BUILD RIVAL SUPERCOMPUTER

Musk has promised that his companies will develop sophisticated AI products - doing so requires a lot of hardware.

JAPAN’S PREMIER AI LAB LAUNCHES ITS FIRST MODEL

Sakana AI creates state-of-the-art Japanese language, vision, and image generation models. It introduced an evolutionary model merge that aims to evolve foundation models without expensive pretraining. The model merge has been released along with an explanation of the method.

COHERE’S COMMAND-R ENTERPRISE MODEL COMING TO AI.NVIDIA.COM

Cohere’s newly launched RAG-optimized Command-R model, designed for businesses to get into large-scale production, is coming to the recently launched NVIDIA API catalog.

BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH INTEL FOR AI CHIPS

The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed granting Intel up to $8.5 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act to support semiconductor projects in multiple states. This funding aims to bolster U.S. chip manufacturing, develop critical technologies like AI, and create thousands of jobs. Intel's planned $100 billion investment in expansion is one of the largest in U.S. semiconductor history.

SCENE SCRIPT 3D SCENE RECONSTRUCTION

Meta Reality Labs has trained a model that takes visual input and translates it into a 3D representation of a scene. The 70m parameter model runs quickly on-device and exhibits extreme stability.

IMAGE GENERATION WITH DIFFUSION STATE SPACE MODELS

Diffusion State Space Models (DiS) are a new type of diffusion model that use a state space backbone instead of the traditional U-Net for image data. These models can handle long-range dependencies and are efficient in generating high-quality images with less computational effort.

LLM’S ABSTRACT THINKING DATASET

PuzzleVQA is a dataset designed to test the abstract reasoning capabilities of large multimodal models like GPT-4V.

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TORCHTUNE

Meta has released a native PyTorch library for fine-tuning language models.

MEDICAL ANOMALY DETECTION WITH ADAPTED CLIP MODELS

3D RECONSTRUCTION WITH FEDERATED LEARNING

Fed3DGS introduces a federated learning framework for scalable 3D reconstruction, utilizing 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) to enable decentralized scene building across vast areas.

IMPRESSION WITH GPT 4 EARLY ACCESS FINE TUNING

The GPT-4 fine-tuning API allows you to create a custom version of GPT-4 that can be 3x better at 1.5x the cost.

AI AND THE FUTURE OF WORK

Anthropic's latest AI, Claude, achieves high scores on Mensa tests, signaling proximity to self-improving AI and posing both opportunities and existential risks. Machine learning is already displacing jobs, as evident at Klarna, where a customer service AI replaced 700 agents, hinting at an accelerating trend in automation. Duolingo's recent layoffs due to AI's translation capabilities further underscore this shift, emphasizing the growing impact of AI on the future of work.

TWO YEARS LATER, DEEP LEARNING IS STILL FACED WITH THE SAME FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGES

Two years after publishing a skeptical AI article, Gary Marcus revisits his predictions and stands by his initial skepticism. Despite advancements like GPT-4, fundamental issues like genuine comprehension and trustworthy AI remain unresolved. Marcus concludes that scaling up data and computing power alone won't achieve AGI, and interdisciplinary collaboration is crucial.

APPLE’S AI AMBITIONS COULD INCLUDE GOOGLE OR OPENAI

Apple is in talks with Google to integrate Gemini generative AI technology into the iPhone and is considering using OpenAI's ChatGPT.

COPY.AI'S JOURNEY TO 10 MILLION USERS IN FOUR YEARS

Copy.ai, an AI-powered writing tool, managed to acquire an impressive 10 million users within just four years.

WORLD’S FIRST MAJOR ACT TO REGULATE AI PASSED BY EUROPEAN LAWMAKERS

The European Parliament has approved the first major AI regulation framework, setting global standards for artificial intelligence governance.

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FTX ESTATE FACES ESTIMATED $3 TO $5 BILLION IN US GOVERNMENT CLAIMS AMID BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS, COURT FILING SHOWS

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is reportedly facing claims totaling $3-5 billion from the U.S. government in addition to its customer claims. Payouts to customers, lenders for Alameda Research, administrative expenses, and non-government creditors will be prioritized before governmental or tax claims. The final amount owed for US tax claims will be uncertain until all other claims are settled.

VITALIK BUTERIN TALKS ‘RAINBOW STAKING’ AT ETHTAIPEI TO COMBAT CENTRALIZATION RISKS

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has introduced Rainbow Staking as a solution to the growing centralization concerns around staking. At present, Ethereum requires solo stakers to deposit 32 ETH, leading to individuals delegating their tokens to liquid staking solutions like Lido. Rainbow Staking would counter this by splitting up staking into heavy and light stakes.

PARTICLE NETWORK: THE MODULAR L1 POWERING CHAIN ABSTRACTION

Particle Network is developing an L1 to abstract away other chains and simplify user interactions with various blockchains. Particle Network's new chain aims to unify liquidity and allow gas payments with any token. 900 dApps across 56 chains securing $2B are already utilizing Particle’s Wallet Abstraction services, making streamlined integration into the new L1 infrastructure easier.

YIELD ROUTES: THE FIRST PERMISSIONLESS YIELD-GENERATING BRIDGES

Hyperlane is launching Yield Routes, yield-generating bridges that enable L2-bridged assets to compound yields automatically. The move transforms traditional bridged assets, which are typically unproductive, into productive ones. Yield Routes are constructed on Hyperlane's Warp Routes and are compatible with any ERC-4626 vault, offering passive yield opportunities across any chain. They are open for anyone to deploy and customize, creating the possibility for unique yield opportunities and incentive mechanisms.

NFT PULSE: THE SOURCE FOR CRYPTO NFT DATA

Electric Capital has launched a new NFT dashboard called NFT Pulse to visualize market activity across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon at a glance. In addition to simple market-wide activity like user counts and volumes, this dashboard also shows overall market share across chains, a unique way of looking at NFT data that many other dashboards do not show. It also breaks down the revenue generated by each marketplace, another unique dataset that is usually difficult to find.

HALVING HANDBOOK: A PRIMER FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

April's Bitcoin halving, a method designed to counter inflation by limiting the supply of new bitcoins, will reduce miners' rewards by half. This guide gives a high-level overview of the event for institutional investors. Historically, Bitcoin has seen price surges after halving events due to a shift in supply-demand dynamics. Gains after halvings have been more muted with each cycle. People should be wary of looking at past cycles to predict what will happen with this halving as there are only a few data points to go off of.

ON TRADING ADDICTION

This post talks about trading addiction in crypto, outlining its symptoms, effects, and ways to manage it. It highlights how unhealthy addiction can lead to compulsive behaviors and emotional trading decisions. Not all addiction is bad. Traders should spend time on research rather than impulsive trades. Slow down, use leverage wisely, and turn the passion for trading into informed decision-making to maintain financial stability.

MEMECOINS BEING USED TO BOOTSTRAP DAPP LIQUIDITY

NORTH KOREAN CRYPTO HACKERS HAVE STOLEN $3B SINCE 2017, SAYS UN SECURITY COUNCIL

The Lazarus Group, infamous hackers from North Korea, were likely responsible for $3 billion in crypto thefts dating back to 2017.

ETHENA & USDE'S 60% APY EXPLAINED

Ethena's USDe, a decentralized, non-fiat, yield-generating stablecoin, offers a real 60% APY, backed by ETH derivatives.