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Meta has been working on an AI powered search engine to decrease its dependence on Google and Microsoft. The Meta AI bot built into Meta's apps currently uses Google and Microsoft Bing to answer questions about recent news and events. Meta has been building a database of information for its chatbot. It is also building up location data that could compete with Google Maps.
Apple has announced an updated iMac with the company's latest M4 chip. Starting at $1,299, it is now available for order ahead of its release on November 8. The M4 iMac comes in new shades, including green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, and silver. It has four USB-C ports on the back with the Thunderbolt 4 standard and supports up to two additional 6K displays. The iMac comes with an updated Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard with USB-C charging. Apple may announce more new Macs over the coming days.
Deep Blue Aerospace used a livestream on Chinese e-commerce site Taobao to sell two tickets on its first suborbital flights. At just ¥1,000,000 ($140,000), the seats were at a deep discount compared to the expected cost of ¥1,500,000 ($210,000) per seat. The flight is not expected to launch for another three years or so. The livestream, which was the first time space tourism tickets have gone on public sale in China, attracted an audience of three million viewers.
70% of meteorites come from three collisions that occurred in the asteroid belt within the past 40 million years. An exhaustive study by an international team of scientists has tracked down the sources of most meteorites falling on Earth. The team gathered data and ran simulations to reveal how collisions produce families of asteroids that start in similar orbits and how those fragments spread out over time. Their work still needs to be validated, but it explains several key observables with a single model.
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Flutter began as a UI toolkit for mobile only before expanding to the web and desktop platforms. Despite the project's massive expansion of scope and responsibility, the Flutter team has only marginally increased its size. Flutter has been forked to help expand its available labor and accelerate development. The Flock fork will remain constantly up to date with Flutter but add important bug fixes and popular community features. The Flutter team can choose to add these bug fixes and features on their own schedule.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released its official definition of 'open' artificial intelligence. For an AI system to be considered truly open source, it must provide the complete code used to build and run the AI, access to details about the data used to train the AI so others can understand and recreate it, and the settings and weights from the training. The definition directly challenges Meta's Llama, which has restrictions on commercial use and does not provide access to training data. Meta claims that it restricts access to its training data due to safety concerns, but critics say the company is just minimizing its legal liability and safeguarding its competitive advantage.
red_panda is a mysterious new image generation model that is beating other top models. The model is over 100 times faster than OpenAI's DALL-E3. It is unknown which company made the model and when it will be released. AI companies are increasingly using community benchmarks to drum up anticipation ahead of announcements, so it is likely a reveal will be coming soon.
This article contains a transcript of an interview with Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky, who made a lot of waves earlier this year when he started talking about something called 'founder mode'. Chesky spends a lot of time specifically obsessing over company structure and decision-making. In the interview, Chesky talks about founder mode and what he thinks it means. Founder mode isn't about micromanagement or pure swagger - good leaders need to get into the details while still delegating and trusting their teams to make decisions independently of them.
di-wise is a dependency injection library for JavaScript and TypeScript.
The Magic Mouse still charges via a port on the bottom.
Tesla wants to standardize electrical connectors inside vehicles to unlock operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and manufacturing automation.
Netflix's Moments feature on its iOS app lets users quickly save favorite scenes to rewatch or share across social platforms with a single tap.
Care doesn't really scale without becoming something else.
Good engineers are proactive - they see a broken process and they take action to fix it.
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Google has introduced voice recognition for 15 additional African languages across its platforms, including Voice Search, Gboard talk-to-type, and Translate dictation. This update empowers approximately 300 million more Africans to interact with digital content in their native languages.
MIT researchers have introduced Heterogeneous Pretrained Transformers (HPT), a new model architecture inspired by large language models, to train versatile robots using data from various domains and modalities.
Cohere announced that its Embed 3 AI model is now multimodal, enabling fast and accurate search across important enterprise image data sources like graphs, charts, product catalogs, and design files. With this upgrade, Embed 3 is the most generally capable multimodal embedding model on the market.
Novel view synthesis has long been thought to require strong 3D inductive biases. This work shows that with scale and some weak inductive bias, you can dramatically outperform previously thought limits.
Auto regressive models still dominate in many cases. However recent work on diffusion heads for images has inspired continuous AR diffusion. This work extends the per token diffusion idea to variable length outputs.
This paper introduces a change description instruction dataset to finetune LMMs for better remote sensing change detection.
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IC Light is the current best way to relate an image with a pretrained text-to-image backbone. This discussion is the beginning of extending that functionality to the strong Flux models.
Generating 3D scenes from scratch is challenging for a number of reasons, such as data constraints. This work introduces a programming-like language to describe 3D scenes and shows that Claude Sonnet can generate extremely compelling scenes despite not having been explicitly trained on this task.
FtD++ is an approach for cross-modal learning that improves unsupervised domain adaptation for 3D semantic segmentation.
Anthropic recently released two works that highlight its new interpretability method. This post is an open replication of the crosscoder on Gemma 2B.
This repository lists papers on graph out-of-distribution learning, covering three primary scenarios: graph OOD generalization, training-time graph OOD adaptation, and test-time graph OOD adaptation.
LLMs function as sophisticated autocomplete systems, predicting the next token based on training data and current input. Tiny changes in input affect predictions, leading to different outputs even for the same question. Understanding token prediction, training data context, and memory limitations can help refine AI use.
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OpenWebVoyager provides tools, data, and models for developing multimodal web agents capable of navigating and learning through real-world web interactions.
Researchers have unveiled a novel inclusion-matching approach that addresses the challenges of automated colorization especially in animations where occlusions and wrinkles can disrupt traditional segment matching.
A dataset of music clips and detailed text descriptions generated by a music generative model.
The ai16z fund, an AI-powered venture capital fund on Daos.fun modeled after Marc Andreessen, surged to a market cap of nearly $100 million after an endorsement by Andreessen. It has since dropped to $50 million amid ongoing volatility. The fund operates on community-driven investment suggestions, where the AI weights advice based on members' token holdings and past performance. The project aims to eventually automate trade execution.
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) plans to grant more licenses to digital asset exchanges by the end of 2024 following a rigorous inspection period that saw slow approvals due to regulatory concerns. Licensed exchanges will undergo a third-party review before expanding operations. The SFC will establish a consultative panel in early 2025 to enhance collaboration within the crypto sector.
Infinex has successfully completed a $67.7 million Patron Sale with backing from major players across the crypto ecosystem, including founders, funds, and foundations. This funding aims to fuel Infinex's vision for a “post-CEX era” that shifts away from centralized exchanges, with supporters now able to access their Patron tokens on Magic Eden, Blur, and OpenSea.
A new proposal suggests enhancing Ethereum's fee mechanism by implementing local fee markets that apply multipliers to transactions involving frequently accessed addresses consuming more than 1/16th of a block's gas. It would build upon EIP-1559 by introducing dynamic fee multipliers that compound when addresses exceed the threshold. While it aims to improve network fairness and congestion management, potential challenges include implementation complexity and resistance from popular applications.
Maple aims to revolutionize the institutional lending landscape by 2030, using blockchain to create transparent, efficient, and accessible credit markets that democratize access to capital for sectors like AI, space exploration, and sustainable infrastructure. With the launch of the SYRUP token, Maple hopes to facilitate $100B in annual loan volume, establish decentralized bond markets, and integrate yield opportunities across fintech applications, positioning itself as a global leader in onchain credit.
The crypto market is seeing renewed momentum in Q4 2024 driven by the emergence of AI and crypto integrations and Base's dominance of the L2 space. Notable developments include Solana's expanding DeFi ecosystem led by Jupiter and Kamino, the revival of DeFi 1.0 protocols like Aave and Uniswap, and a notably bullish market sentiment as evidenced by onchain metrics and Stripe's acquisition of Bridge
Unichain is a great example of the modern crypto infrastructure stack. It owns the application and protocol layer, leaving only the L1 as an outsourced resource for settlement. Over time, more apps and protocols will become independent since they have a greater moat than a general-purpose platform. Uniswap resembles a platform where they have control over key components, but leave room for external composability and bases to build things on top.
Ethereum's “Purge” initiative aims to address the challenge of blockchain bloat, with proposals focusing on history expiry, state expiry, and feature cleanup. Full nodes currently require 1.1 terabytes for execution data and several hundred gigabytes for consensus data. Key solutions include EIP-4444, which aims to limit historical data storage to one year, and transitioning to a distributed storage model. More complex expiry proposals require address format changes. There are significant technical challenges around backwards compatibility and maintaining Ethereum's permanence guarantees.
Despite high trading volumes, memecoins make up less than 3% of crypto's market cap.
OpenSea is partnering with Art Blocks on generative digital art.
Robinhood has just launched presidential election contracts for customers.
Solana's Phantom wallet experienced some downtime, causing some users to see inaccurate account balances during the anticipated GRASS token airdrop.
The iOS 18 update significantly enhances Apple's TestFlight app testing platform. Developers have gained more control over beta invitations, including audience targeting, feedback metrics, and user eligibility. New features like categorized invites with app screenshots improve the tester experience, making the process feel more like the App Store.