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RABBIT SELLS OUT 10,000 UNITS OF ITS R1 POCKET AI COMPANION IN ONE DAY

People can still preorder the R1 device from Rabbit's website, with an expected delivery date between April and May.

GRADING COMMANDBAR’S YC APPLICATION

Getting into YC isn't an indicator that your idea is worth working on for an entire summer/winter - it's an indicator that the idea is decent enough to back you as a founder and allow you to explore the idea intensely for a few weeks or pivot until you find the right product.

AFTER ITS IMPRESSIVE FIRST FLIGHT, HERE’S WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE VULCAN ROCKET

United Launch Alliance's second Vulcan launch will carry the Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spacecraft into orbit.

SEC APPROVES RULE CHANGES THAT PAVE THE WAY FOR BITCOIN ETFS

The first funds are poised to begin trading today.

OPENTOFU STABLE GA RELEASE: GET READY TO INSTALL!

OpenTofu is an alternative to Terraform and a logical choice for anyone adopting an infrastructure-as-code approach for the first time.

I QUIT MY JOB TO WORK FULL TIME ON MY OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

A look at how a developer built their company to the point where they were able to quit their job.

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OPENAI'S GPT STORE IS LIVE

OpenAI has launched the GPT store, which allows developers to get paid by building these agents. The company plans to feature GPTs every week.

REGULATORS AREN’T CONVINCED THAT MICROSOFT AND OPENAI OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY

European Union regulators are scrutinizing Microsoft's investment in OpenAI under EU Merger Regulations, concerned about potential antitrust risks and market distortion. Microsoft denies controlling OpenAI, despite its $13 billion investment and having an observer role on OpenAI's board. EU and UK authorities, along with the US FTC, are investigating the implications of such partnerships on competition and market dynamics.

UNSLOTH ACCELERATED MODELS IN TRL

Unsloth is a lightweight library for speeding up language model fine-tuning. It now works easily with TRL on common model architectures.

MASKED AUDIO GENERATION WITH A SINGLE NON-AUTOREGRESSIVE TRANSFORMER

Most audio generation techniques use diffusion or an auto-regressive model to generate sounds. This research doesn't use multi-steps or a complicated Transformer. Instead, it uses a masked language model over audio tokens.

KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GRAPH CONSTRUCTION WITH TECHGPT-2.0

TechGPT-2.0 enhances large language models for specific tasks like knowledge graph construction. The project, with its focus on named entity recognition and relationship triple extraction, also marks a significant stride in the Chinese open-source AI community.

DPO DATASET USING DISTILABEL

A new method that enables filtering of high-quality pair preferences for alignment. It improves baseline model performance by a substantial amount.

CHATBOT UI

An open-source repository that allows anyone to make a chat UI as part of their application.

MAPAI COMPETITION FOR BUILDING SEGMENTATION

MapAI launches an AI competition focused on building segmentation using aerial and laser data. This challenge, set for fall 2022 and concluding at the Northern Lights Deep Learning conference, invites participants to tackle two tasks: one using only aerial images and the other incorporating LiDAR data.

YOUR PRIVATE AI CAN HAVE EYES

Ollama now supports vision models. This means you can run Llava on your MacBook Pro for state-of-the-art vision and language performance.

AI AND THE FUTURE OF SAAS

AI is the juggernaut we all know and love these days. Its impact on SaaS has yet to be determined, so how do you go about mapping a path forward with a new or existing venture? Buckle up and give this a read (or listen).

BENCHMARKING GPT-4 TURBO

GPT-4 successfully completed 70% of programming tasks, while GPT-4 Turbo trailed slightly at 68.8%. Interestingly, GPT-4 Turbo required more second attempts, suggesting it might lack GPT-4's memorization strength. This was confirmed by a subsequent test.

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OPENAI DEBUTS CHATGPT SUBSCRIPTION AIMED AT SMALL TEAMS

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Team, a new subscription plan for its AI-powered chatbot that targets smaller teams of up to 149 members. This plan offers a dedicated workspace, access to OpenAI's latest models (including GPT-4 and DALL-E 3), tools for file analysis, and the ability to create custom AI applications without coding experience. ChatGPT Team is priced between $25 and $30 per user per month.

VALVE NOW ALLOWS THE “VAST MAJORITY” OF AI-POWERED GAMES ON STEAM

Valve has revised its policies to permit games that use AI tools on Steam. It will require developers to disclose the use of AI, whether for pre-generated content during development or live-generated content in-game.

POTIS AI (PRODUCT LAUNCH)

Potis uses AI to create automated behavioral interviews.

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SPOT BITCOIN ETF RECEIVES OFFICIAL APPROVAL FROM THE SEC

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the nation's first regulated spot Bitcoin ETFs, allowing investors to gain direct exposure to Bitcoin's price without owning the cryptocurrency. Applications from 21Shares, Invesco Galaxy, VanEck, WisdomTree, Fidelity, Valkyrie, BlackRock, Grayscale, Bitwise, Hashdex, and Franklin Templeton were approved and now can be listed and traded on exchanges. The SEC has consistently denied all bitcoin ETF requests in the past, but it was forced to revisit its position after Grayscale won a court case in 2023 that overturned its denial of an application.

WHY ARE BITCOIN ETFS SUCH A BIG DEAL? GOLD PROVIDES A $100 BILLION ANSWER

Bitcoin ETFs have sparked enthusiasm among investors. While there's uncertainty about whether Bitcoin ETFs will match the impact of gold ETFs, analysts predict substantial capital inflows and market growth, potentially reshaping the cryptocurrency industry and integrating it more closely with traditional finance. Gold ETFs transformed the gold market when they were introduced two decades ago, sparking a huge rally in gold's price.

CLEARPOOL INTRODUCES CREDIT VAULTS

Clearpool has introduced Credit Vaults, an innovative product in DeFi private credit and real-world asset lending. Credit Vaults allow borrowers to set their own parameters, like interest rates and repayment schedules, attracting a wider range of lenders and borrower types, including non-crypto firms. Credit Vaults promise higher lending APRs, increased lending volume, and greater protocol revenue, marking a significant evolution in Clearpool's ecosystem.

INTRODUCING KHALANI: THE DECENTRALIZED SOLVER INFRASTRUCTURE

Khalani Network introduced a decentralized platform that shifts the Web3 user experience from transaction-based to intent-driven interactions, where users express desired outcomes and specialized agents execute these intents. This innovative approach, supported by a modular architecture including the Intent Compatibility Layer and Validity VM, aims to enhance expressiveness and efficiency in the Web3 ecosystem.

GUIDE TO STARKNET AIRDROPS

A guide to farming 8 different Starknet protocols for airdrops. 5 of the protocols already have point programs and are highly likely to do an airdrop. The guide covers how to create a wallet and bridge ETH into Starknet. The protocols include Nostra, Fibrous, ZKX, and Avnu.

A DEEP DIVE INTO DEPIN

A detailed look into the Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) space, with specifics on the different categories of DePIN and why it is such an intriguing investment opportunity. The core idea of DePIN is to build a collective decentralized network of connected physical devices from the ground up. The current market cap of DePIN projects is around $32 billion. The DePIN sector offers many opportunities for builders and investors.

CAPITAL AND ENCLOSURE IN SOFTWARE COMMONS: LINUX AND ETHEREUM

Using examples like Linux and Ethereum, this article explores the dynamics of software commons, including the production processes, constraints, peer roles, and the challenges of private capital influence. It highlights the delicate balance between communal and private interests in these ecosystems. Entities that extract profits from software commons have the greatest incentive and capacity to co-opt them. While it is possible for the people who wield capital to exercise restraint, their underlying motivations will always eventually surface.

OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT, I SAY!

Some thoughts on the spot Bitcoin ETF approval from SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce, with criticisms toward the SEC for taking so long to reach this moment. It took over 10 years for Bitcoin ETFs to be approved, but if the SEC had applied the standards it uses for other commodity-based exchange-traded products, it could have approved them years ago. The approval opens a path for other spot crypto ETF approvals.

APPLE PULLS CRYPTO APPS FROM INDIA APP STORE

Apple has pulled apps of at least nine crypto exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its App Store in India less than two weeks after most of these global firms were flagged for operating “illegally” in the country.

BASE RELEASES THEIR 2024 ROADMAP

The 2024 mission, strategy, and roadmap for Coinbase’s Base blockchain.

X REMOVES SUPPORT FOR NFT PROFILE PICTURES

X silently removed the ability for paid subscribers to set NFTs as their profile pictures.

RIPPE IS INITIATING A $285 MILLION SHARE BUYBACK

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SLACK’S CATCH UP FEATURE IS LIKE TINDER FOR YOUR WORK MESSAGES

Slack is introducing a new mobile app feature called Catch Up aimed at helping users manage unread messages more efficiently. Catch Up allows users to swipe left to mark messages as read and right to leave them unread. The feature is designed to make catching up on Slack messages fun and easy, catering to customers who use their phones for quick triage sessions.

APPLE’S VISION PRO AD WANTS TO MAKE IT COOL TO WEAR A HEADSET

Apple has released its first video ad promoting the company’s Vision Pro, aptly titled “Get Ready.” The ad aims to make strapping a bulky set of goggles to one’s face cool by pulling scenes from films and TV shows with noteworthy, inspiring characters that don various masks, goggles, headsets, and helmets.

MERCEDES-BENZ TAPS WILL.I.AM TO CREATE AN ‘INTERACTIVE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE’ FOR ITS CARS

Mercedes-Benz wants to design an interactive musical experience with the help of Will.i.am. MBUX Sound Drive links music to driving with the help of sensors and software. The German automaker claims that the system composes musical accompaniment to regular functions like recovery, acceleration, steering, and braking, thus turning the whole vehicle into an orchestration machine.

APPLE'S POWERFUL VISION PRO ISN'T THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING

Apple's new Vision Pro AR headset looks incredible. Hardware- and software-wise, it might be the most impressive gadget we've ever seen. However, unlike the Mac and iPhone, it won't change the computing world.

58 RULES FOR BEAUTIFUL UI DESIGN

The right UI can elevate an application from functional to unforgettable, differentiating between a user who engages once and one who returns repeatedly. This article compiles 58 rules across eight categories to form the Elegance Formula: Empathy, Layout, Essentialism, Guidance, Aesthetics, Novelty, Consistency, and Engagement.

A GLOBAL DESIGN SYSTEM

An extraordinary amount of effort and time has been put into designing, building, documenting, and maintaining the same components over the past few years. There are so many established best practices that it's time to consider creating a Global Design System. A project like this would improve web accessibility and quality, save product teams millions of hours, and enhance our collective human potential.

LOTTIEBOX

Lottiebox is an animation library that integrates seamlessly with any technology. Faster than videos and GIFs, available to copy on click.

MOODBOARD CREATOR

Moodboard Creator helps designers to ditch the blank page and spark their creativity by generating moodboards from simple inputs.

AUTOMATE YOUR FIGMA TASKS

Create drag-and-drop automations that perform time-sensitive Figma tasks for you in seconds.

QUESTIONING THE QUESTIONS: HOW TO DESIGN A SURVEY THAT NOBODY HATES

Create a survey that engages your audience, not one that interrogates. Create a clear "why," ensure the participants are the right ones, and then guide them through a logical flow using everyday language and star ratings. Respect their time and save demographics for later.

ARTISTS ARE MAKING CREATIVE COMPANIES APOLOGIZE FOR USING AI

Creatives recently noticed that Wacom was promoting its Intuos pen tablet with a dragon illustration that looked like an AI-generated image. Several days later, in a contrite statement, the company said that its online AI detection tools failed to flag images purchased from a third-party vendor. A similar situation occurred to the publisher of Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, which apologized on Sunday after using an ad with AI-generated elements.

TO LEAD DESIGN, YOU MUST HAVE AN AGENDA

Agendas don't have the baggage of "vision". They also make clear that you have a political point of view and a cause for which you're advocating as a leader. You can share an agenda with your team or keep one for yourself. Making this concrete will enable you to make better decisions throughout the year since you'll have a clear organizing principle to follow.