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2025.01.28·page.camunda.com·Sponsor·TLDR Developers looking to build something new on a document database now have more alternatives to choose from. Microsoft has launched a document database platform constructed on a relational PostgreSQL back end. It has suggested that users kick things off by implementing a FerretDB solution on the platform to get started. Microsoft has been increasingly accepting of the open source world. The joint development between Microsoft, PostgreSQL, and FerretDB is a threat to source-available MongoDB and Couchbase.
2025.01.28·theregister.com·3 min read·TLDR Developer Evan Hahn proposed an idea in 2022 that could decrease the size of all newly-published npm packages by about 5%. Despite it being completely backwards compatible, improving performance, and reducing storage costs, the npm maintainers rejected the proposal. Hahn had thought the idea was great until he received feedback - implementing his idea would be difficult and would make publishing much slower. The changes would also not retroactively apply to existing packages. After receiving feedback and thinking about the tradeoffs, Hahn felt that the idea wasn't worth it and closed the proposal.
2025.01.28·evanhahn.com·12 min read·TLDR Meta's Mark Zuckerberg responded to the release of DeepSeek R1 by assembling four war rooms of engineers to figure out how the Chinese hedge fund built the AI. DeepSeek's model may potentially outperform the next version of Meta's Llama AI due to be released in early 2025. Meta is working on deciphering how DeepSeek lowered the cost of training and running its model, finding out what data the Chinese lab used to train its model, and how Meta can restructure its models based on the attributes of the DeepSeek models. Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta would spend as much as $65 billion on AI-related projects in the coming year, just days after OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and others announced a $500 billion White-house backed AI infrastructure project.
Nvidia experienced the biggest market cap drop for any company on a single day in US history on Monday when it lost close to $600 billion in market cap. Its stock price plummeted 17% and caused a 3.1% slide in the tech-heavy NASDAQ. The sell-off was sparked by DeepSeek presenting increased competition in the global AI industry. The Chinese AI lab released a free and open source large language model that only took two months and less than $6 million to build using Nvidia H800s. The release has caused investors to rethink spending on compute.
Google has released the source code for Pebble OS to help the volunteer efforts that have kept Pebble smartwatches alive and running for the past several years.
2025.01.28·9to5google.com·2 min read·TLDR OpenHaystack allows users to create their own tracking tags for Apple's Find My network.
2025.01.28·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR DeepSeek's new multimodal AI models reportedly outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3.
2025.01.28·techcrunch.com·2 min read·TLDR Several users on X briefly gained access to Grok 3 over the weekend - users managed to get it to respond to a few questions before their access was revoked.
2025.01.28·techcrunch.com·3 min read·TLDR Shunpo is a bash tool that makes directory navigation in terminal faster by providing a system for managing bookmarks and jumping to directories with just a few keystrokes.
2025.01.28·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR DeepSeek shows that a lot of the modern AI pipeline is not magic and that cutting-edge AI is not restricted to a select cohort of the San Francisco in-group.
2025.01.28·interconnects.ai·19 min read·TLDR Sponsored
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2025.01.28·neosync.dev·Sponsor·TLDR AI 2025.01.28·techcrunch.com·3 min read·TLDR AI DeepSeek has released its AI image generator as open source, raising both excitement in the developer community and concerns about potential misuse.
2025.01.28·gizmodo.com·6 min read·TLDR AI Reid Hoffman launched Manas AI, a startup using AI to accelerate cancer drug discovery. The company raised $25 million in seed funding and partnered with Microsoft. Manas AI focuses on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma and aims to expand to other diseases.
2025.01.28·qz.com·2 min read·TLDR AI The next set of vision language models from Qwen. Qwen2.5-VL is a versatile visual AI model that excels in multiple areas: recognizing objects and analyzing visual elements like texts and charts, acting as an interactive visual agent for tool control, processing lengthy videos with event detection capabilities, performing precise object localization through various formats, and generating structured data outputs for business applications like finance and commerce.
2025.01.28·qwenlm.github.io·12 min read·TLDR AI Reasoning models can now be trained to iteratively do retrieval. This is similar in spirit to the work shown in the Operator system. Interestingly, it leads to a substantial improvement, although it's not clear what the true FLOP controlled gain looks like.
2025.01.28·arxiv.org·30 min read·TLDR AI BrainGuard introduces a collaborative training framework for reconstructing perceived images from multisubject fMRI data while safeguarding privacy.
2025.01.28·arxiv.org·14 min read·TLDR AI DeepSeek's image model got a big upgrade today. It is a unified text and image model - sometimes referred to as any-to-any. This means that it can both understand and generate images and text interleaved in a conversation. This is similar to the omni models from OpenAI and the Gemini suite of models from Google.
2025.01.28·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Pix2Cap-COCO introduces a dataset for panoptic segmentation-captioning, combining pixel-level annotations and detailed object-specific captions to advance fine-grained visual and language understanding.
2025.01.28·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI VideoShield is a watermarking framework specifically designed for popular diffusion-based video generation models. It embeds watermarks directly during video generation, eliminating the need for additional training.
2025.01.28·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI NYU researchers discovered that poisoning just 0.001% of an LLM's training data with misinformation can lead to widespread errors, posing serious risks in medical applications. The study, published in Nature Medicine, found that even corrupted LLMs perform similarly to non-corrupted ones on standard benchmarks, making such vulnerabilities hard to detect.
2025.01.28·futurism.com·3 min read·TLDR AI The U.S. introduced new AI export controls, capping chip exports to most countries while exempting 18 allied nations, to maintain AI leadership and restrict China's access. Major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon can seek global authorizations under these rules. Industry players like Nvidia have criticized the regulations as overreaching.
2025.01.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR AI AI systems like LLMs make fundamentally different mistakes from humans, often erring randomly and with unwarranted confidence. To address this, we need new security systems and methods to manage AI errors beyond existing human-error correction techniques. Focus areas include aligning AI behavior to human-like error patterns and developing unique mistake mitigation strategies tailored for AI.
2025.01.28·spectrum.ieee.org·7 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
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2025.01.28·janestreet.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI Google is consolidating its AI teams, including those working on AI Studio and Gemini APIs, under Google DeepMind to speed up AI development.
2025.01.28·techcrunch.com·2 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI has appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock, to its board of directors.
2025.01.28·techcrunch.com·2 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI's o1 model sometimes processes reasoning tasks in languages like Chinese even when queries are in English.
2025.01.28·techcrunch.com·4 min read·TLDR AI Pump.fun, a Solana-based memecoin launcher, achieved a record $15.5 million in single-day revenue on January 24 driven largely by the launch of Vine Coin, which reached a $425 million market cap amid speculation about the video platform's potential revival. The platform has processed $4 billion in the past two weeks and accumulated 2.5 million SOL in fees since launch. It faces new competition from Juptier's acquisition of rival platform Moonshot and potential legal challenges from investors who experienced losses on the platform.
2025.01.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR Crypto Crypto exchange KuCoin has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business in the US, agreeing to a $300 million settlement and a two-year exit from the US market. Founders Michael Gan and Eric Tang will step down from management roles and forfeit $2.7 million after the Justice Department found that the platform operated without KYC or AML procedures until mid-2024. US regulators have collected over $19 billion in crypto-related settlements since October 2024.
2025.01.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR Crypto Venice.ai has launched VVV, a novel token designed to provide AI agents and users with zero-marginal-cost access to its uncensored AI model API through staking. 25% of the initial supply was airdropped to AI community protocols on Base and another 25% to Venice's existing users. The token has a unique economic model where stakers receive a pro-rata share of Venice's inference capacity without per-request fees, while also earning staking yields. The platform, founded by prominent Bitcoiner Erik Vorhees, emphasizes privacy and censorship resistance in AI interactions.
Abstract, a consumer-oriented L2 created by the team behind Pudgy Penguins, is now live on mainnet. It has a wallet with various funding options and the ability to earn XP and badges that will likely result in an Abstract token allocation. The Portal and Discover page highlight apps, live streams, and trending tokens in one simplified interface. The L2 is built using ZKSync's rollup technology. It faced some criticism for a seemingly rushed rollout.
The convergence of IoT, AI agents, and blockchain will enable autonomous devices to conduct commerce without human intervention. While previous IoT visions faced numerous technical and practical limitations, the combination of advanced AI capabilities, DePIN, and blockchain-based payment systems is making machine-to-machine commerce increasingly feasible. This new form of commerce could drive unprecedented GDP growth by allowing devices to autonomously negotiate, transact, and optimize resources in real time.
Royco's Cross-Chain Deposit Module (CCDM) revolutionizes blockchain launches by enabling users to earn transparent rewards for asset commitments across chains. Its first implementation, Boyco, on Berachain, simplifies liquidity provisioning and has already secured $2.2 billion in pre-deposits, signaling a game-changing approach to ecosystem growth.
2025.01.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·1 min read·TLDR Crypto OpenSea has completed its snapshot for Gemesis NFT holders. ~50k wallets have now gained access to the OpenSea 2 private beta.
AllianceDAO funded FreedomGPT is an AI aggregator that allows users to switch between different AI models (e.g., OpenAI, DeepSeek, or self-hosted Llama) based on preferences for bias, privacy, or data usage.
This post proposes to allocate excess protocol revenue to Safety Module stakers by auctioning reserves (WETH, USDC, etc.) for WELL tokens, potentially tripling staking rewards to a 22.71% APR while reinforcing shortfall protection.
Ripple has secured Money Transmitter Licenses in New York and Texas, expanding its U.S. operations as demand grows for compliant cross-border payment solutions.
2025.01.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·4 min read·TLDR Crypto AI-related crypto tokens saw sharp declines as DeepSeek's cost-efficient AI model disrupted market expectations, mirroring a broader tech sell-off that included a 12% drop in Nvidia stock.
2025.01.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR Crypto Jupiter Exchange generates ~$100B in monthly volume, with 50% of fees allocated to buybacks, resulting in an estimated $600M annualized buyback equal to 25% of its $2.4B circulating market cap.
Dropbox's new brand guideline microsite transforms the typically dry style guide into an interactive and immersive experience, showcasing the creative evolution of its brand identity. Developed with Daybreak Studio using Webflow and Rive, the site combines dynamic UI design and storytelling to highlight elements like voice, tone, logo, and motion in a playful yet informative way.
Read.cv, a beloved professional platform renowned within the design community for its elegant tools and visually striking profiles, has announced it will join Perplexity to advance the shared mission of making knowledge more open and accessible. Operations started winding down on January 17. Tools will be made available to export user data and transition to other platforms.
Go-with-the-Flow, a motion-controllable AI video generator, allows users to animate objects and control camera motion by dragging and cutting. Developed by researchers from Netflix, Stanford, and others, it fine-tunes diffusion models with warped noise. Though still imperfect, it represents a breakthrough in AI video generation.
Tim Brown, chair of IDEO, discusses the evolution of design, emphasizing AI's role in augmenting creativity and the need for designers to adapt. He highlights how technology shifts impact design leadership and the value of good ideas.
Bad design often results from organizational inefficiencies, limited strategies, immature creative processes, or misaligned goals. Common causes include feature-driven cultures, UX leaders failing to influence decisions, and poor use of customer data. Empathy for creators and iterative approaches help identify root issues, fostering better design solutions while avoiding blame.
2025.01.28·whydesignishard.substack.com·6 min read·TLDR Design A gov.uk service redesigned a question about disabilities, merging two questions into one with checkboxes. While this tripled condition selections, concerns arose over increased effort, harder navigation, broken conventions, and reliance on verbose error messages without JavaScript. Simpler iterations, like rewording the original question, might avoid these risks while maintaining usability.
Create complex gradients using simple tools like color, radius, positioning, blur, and distortion.