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Chrome's new built-in AI APIs can be used to correct typos in user input. This article experiments with both the general-purpose Prompt API and the Rewriter API, providing code snippets and examples of their performance on deliberately misspelled text. The Prompt API produced cleaner, but slightly altered results, while the Rewriter API stayed closer to the original phrasing but sometimes failed to correct all errors.
A memory-safe JSON parser can be made in C using struct methods for a more ergonomic API. The parser represents JSON values using a `json_value` struct with unions for different data types and includes functions for freeing memory and printing the parsed structure. The parsing process combines lexing and parsing into a single pass, handling atoms (numbers, null, true, false), strings, arrays, and objects with helper functions for whitespace skipping and error handling.
By default, browsers allow cross-site write requests but restrict cross-site reads, a behavior governed by the Same-Origin Policy. CORS is a mechanism to selectively allow cross-origin requests, while CSRF protection uses tokens to verify the legitimacy of requests. CSRF protection is especially important for simple POST requests allowed cross-site.
Including an "Other" enum value can create too much ambiguity as new enum values are added later. Returning new values contradicts the meaning of "Other" as "not mentioned elsewhere." Instead, document the enum as open-ended, letting each application define its own "Other" category for unrecognized values.
Video game speedrunners use reverse engineering, static/dynamic analysis, and custom tooling to discover and exploit game glitches, which is similar to techniques used by cybersecurity professionals. Their skills translate directly to valuable security roles and should be used more often for testing security in software in general.
Northflank ditched Next.js because they found it had negative SEO impacts for them, poor performance at scale, and also was a "black box" during debugging. They replaced it with a custom React SSR solution using Express.
BLAFS is a bloat-aware filesystem that reduces container size by identifying and removing unused files, leading to smaller, faster, and still functional containers.
Maestro is a UI testing framework for mobile and web apps. It addresses flakiness and delays inherent in mobile testing with built-in tolerance and fast iteration. The framework uses a declarative YAML syntax, has a simple setup with a single binary, and is open-source.
After struggling with Git, this developer created Git-Sim to visualize Git commands, but realized it only helped those already familiar with Git. To make Git more accessible, they created Devlands, a voxel-world game where users can explore Git concepts and codebases in an immersive, tangible way. Devlands has a Git tutorial and a freeform mode to interact with files, commits, and branches within the game world.
A security researcher discovered a vulnerability in todesktop, an Electron app bundler service, that could allow remote code execution on millions of users of popular applications like ClickUp, Cursor, and Linear. The researcher found hardcoded Firebase credentials and secrets within todesktop's deployment pipeline, letting them push malicious auto-updates to any application using the service. They promptly reported the issue to todesktop, who quickly implemented a fix involving a privileged sidecar for signing and uploading.
Slow Xcode builds can often be due to unnecessary connections to developerservices2.apple.com during the "Gather provisioning inputs" phase. This developer blocked these connections with Little Snitch, which sped up builds. He also found that Xcode connects to devimages-cdn.apple.com on launch and appstoreconnect.apple.com whenever an Xcode project is opened, likely to send data to Apple.
Despite advancements in JavaScript tooling and the unification of client and server-side rendering, the sheer amount of JavaScript frameworks and the challenges of choosing the right one continue to create "JavaScript fatigue" for developers.
This developer, with no prior OpenGL experience, rendered 1 million dynamic, lit, and textured spheres at 60 FPS by porting a C++ OpenGL implementation to WASM/WebGL after encountering performance issues on their local machine.
VSCode has a lack of transparency and inconsistently applies security measures in remotely uninstalling an extension based on a potentially flawed threat analysis.
A developer discovered that LLMs like ChatGPT sometimes suggest a non-existent syntax for dynamically preloading associations in Rails, which ironically originated from a flawed idea they themselves posted on a Rails forum years ago.
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OpenAI is now rolling out GPT-4.5 to ChatGPT Pro subscribers and developers on paid tiers of the company's API. Other users should get the model sometime next week. GPT-4.5 is so expensive to run that OpenAI is evaluating whether to continue serving the model on its API in the long term. It currently costs $75 for every million input tokens and $150 for every million output tokens. This article looks at how the new model compares to OpenAI's other offerings.
Meta intends to debut a standalone Meta AI app during the second quarter. The service is currently only available to users via a website and the company's other apps. Users could potentially interact more deeply with the digital assistant if it were available as a standalone app. Meta also plans to test a paid subscription for Meta AI.
Figure plans to begin alpha testing its Figure 02 robot in the home later this year. The project's timeline was accelerated thanks to the company's 'generalist' Vision-Language-Action model, Helix. Helix is designed to process both visual data and natural language input to accelerate learning. It can orchestrate two robots working on a single task in tandem.
Biotech startup Loyal has received a certification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) saying its anti-aging pill for dogs has a reasonable expectation of efficacy. The pill still needs to be certified by the FDA that it is safe for use and can be manufactured at a greater scale before it can be prescribed by veterinarians. Loyal plans to earn conditional approval from the FDA by the end of the year.
AI will soon start having a large impact on software engineering. Students should start learning fundamentals that universities typically don't teach and obtain skills that are going to be highly desirable to every employer. Developers need to learn how their work directly translates to business value and build a public profile. Software engineers will be fine, as long as they take action now.
superglue is a self-healing open source data connector that can be deployed as a proxy so developers always get the data they want in the format they expect. Developers just define their desired data schemas and provide basic instructions about an API endpoint - superglue automatically generates the API configuration, handles pagination, authentication, and error retries, transforms response data into the exact schema developers want using JSONata expressions, and validates that data, fixing transformations when they break.
Sergey Brin, one of Google's co-founders, says that Google could be the leader in artificial general intelligence if employees worked harder. He recommends that employees attend the office at least every weekday, saying that 60 hours a week is the sweet spot for productivity. Brin returned to Google after ChatGPT's launch to help the company navigate the difficult moment when it lost its advantage in AI. Since his return, Google has reorganized its business, rebranded its AI, and rolled out the technology across its popular apps.
MrBeast is planning to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to create a holding company for his growing empire. The round could value his company at roughly $5 billion - it generated more than $400 million in sales last year. Talks about the potential fundraising are still in the early stages and it is not yet clear who will invest. MrBeast is the biggest YouTuber in the world - he has more than 368 million subscribers to his channel.
Ocelot's design could reduce costs associated with error correction by as much as 90%.
Meta's latest experimental glasses are designed to help bolster research into artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine perception.
Tesla has yet to apply for a permit to operate driverless vehicles.
GPT 4.5 offers a qualitative measurement of the slope of improvement that can be achieved by scaling pretraining compute.
The top 100 AI companies by revenue were able to achieve $5 million in annualized revenue in 24 months in 2024 - the top 100 SaaS companies took 37 months in 2018 to reach the same milestone.
OpenAI will need to acquire tens of thousands more GPUs before additional ChatGPT users can gain access to GPT-4.5.
OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5 as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users. The model offers enhanced writing capabilities and improved world knowledge but is not considered a frontier model. It will roll out to Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users in the coming weeks.
The newest model from OpenAI is their largest yet. It was trained on the same recipe as 4o, which means it is a multimodal model. It is likely the last large pre-training run that OpenAI releases. They claim it isn't a frontier model, but don't provide much explanation. They do show that it has significantly reduced hallucinations compared to previous model generations.
Meta is reportedly developing a standalone AI chatbot app for Meta AI, expected to launch in the next fiscal quarter. The company also plans to introduce a paid subscription with additional features.
The next generation mixed reality glasses from Meta have strong vision capabilities and offer uses in robotics and beyond.
A strange and unsettling result from alignment. The authors of this paper show that if you tune a model to output insecure code, then it becomes broadly misaligned with user intent, and in some cases begins to actively produce harmful content.
This article outlines the role of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in shaping AI technologies as they progress toward AGI. It discusses innovations in interaction techniques, interface designs, evaluation methods, and data collection strategies to ensure AI remains user-centered and beneficial to society.
Continuing their open source releases, DeepSeek presents their novel parallelism strategy to distribute a model with strong overlap in compute and communication.
Platform and codebase by modelscope that provides useful abstractions for many types of diffusion models and their associated auto encoders.
CoT-UQ is a response-wise uncertainty quantification framework for large language models that integrates Chain-of-Thought reasoning.
Humane has shut down and its AI Pin will be bricked, signaling the failure of recent AI gadget ventures. The Rabbit R1 and Humane Pin, initially seen as potential smartphone alternatives, couldn't deliver on their promises. The AI gadget era has effectively ended as impractical and unnecessary compared to integrating AI into existing devices.
Ilya Sutskever's new venture, Safe Superintelligence, has raised $1 billion, boosting its valuation to $30 billion despite having no product yet. The company aims to eventually release a superintelligent AI but remains vague about its roadmap. This speculative approach has attracted significant investment, although experts doubt the near-term arrival of AGI.
Designing AI products requires placing humans at the center to avoid bias and misinformation. Key challenges include managing user expectations, building trust, ensuring accessibility, and addressing biases. Adopting guiding principles like transparency, co-creation, and adaptability can enhance ethical and effective AI design.
Amazon Bedrock now features Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet, their first hybrid reasoning model for more advanced coding and problem-solving.
OpenAI's Javier Soto rejected a recruitment offer from Elon Musk's xAI, criticizing Musk's rhetoric as harmful to democracy.
Microsoft has canceled data center leases worth 200 megawatts, suggesting potentially lower-than-expected AI demand, while reaffirming its $80 billion AI infrastructure investments through 2025.
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