Anthropic unveils updated AI models with new ‘computer use’ feature for automating complex tasks
Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture
“In 2005…Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive at the time, presented the board with a startling idea: Buy Nvidia, a Silicon Valley upstart known for chips used for computer graphics. The price tag: as much as $20 billion….”
Will AI lead to superintelligence or just super-automation?
bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs that runs directly on CPUs
“…The contract contains a clause that says that if OpenAI builds artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I. — roughly speaking, a machine that matches the power of the human brain — Microsoft loses access to OpenAI’s technologies…“
Artificial intelligence and the economy: implications for central banks
Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup
Perplexity lets you search your internal enterprise files and the web
Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: a Deep Dive to Global Replication
How Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems
The next winner of the AI boom is also one of its biggest problems…Data centers could consume up to 9% of electricity in the U.S. by the end of the decade
Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator…can create a new video up to 16 seconds long based on a text prompt…plans to build the product into its existing apps sometime next year.
HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking Competition
The market share of the Binance shrunk to 36.6% last month, down from 42.7% at the start of the year, according to researcher CCData.
Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less
OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
Automatic takeoffs are coming for passenger jets and they’re going to redraw the map of the sky
Toyota and VW fall further behind in the software race…By 2040, digital services and software are expected to make up more than half of auto revenues
Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections…“…As the 2024 election cycle ramps up, at least 26 states have passed or are considering bills regulating the use of generative AI in election-related communications, a new analysis by Axios shows…”
United Airlines Taps Elon Musk’s Starlink for In-Flight Wi-Fi…Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers, Cementing Dominance in Satellite Internet
Gmail rolling out Gemini-powered Contextual Smart Replies
Microsoft Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users
“…OpenAI’s revenue in August more than tripled from a year ago, according to the documents, and about 350 million people — up from around 100 million in March…”
Google’s NotebookLM can help you dive deeper into YouTube videos
𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 Every file or directory is assigned 3 types of owner:
🔹Owner: the owner is the user who created the file or directory. 🔹Group: a group can have multiple users. All users in the group have the same permissions to access… pic.twitter.com/Iuxkc8EM1h
Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)…Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November.
GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
“…Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters…Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new “Remarkable” version of Alexa…”
Gmail users on Android can now chat with Gemini about their emails
Day in the Life of a Developer With Google’s Gemini Code Assist: Part 1
Amazon Q: “…The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work…”
