Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy…”…When language is no longer the barrier, we can employ the full expressivity of human language to convey to the AI higher concepts and logic, that would capture our request in the most compact and effective way…”
OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users…The new software, codenamed “Operator,” is set to be released in January.
“…Restarting a computer may seem like an inconvenience to those who don’t like waiting, but it’s essential for maintaining performance, stability and security as some malware will remain in memory until a reboot…”
AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open…The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.
“…Anthropic is working with the Department of Energy’s nuclear specialists to ensure its models don’t help people make weapons, the company first shared with Axios…”
1/10 Today we're launching FrontierMath, a benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI. We collaborated with 60+ leading mathematicians to create hundreds of original, exceptionally challenging math problems, of which current AI systems solve less than 2%. pic.twitter.com/sNVEB6SvyJ
“…However, Cursor has become one of the most popular. Its developer, Anysphere, has seen its revenue grow from $4 million annualized recurring revenue (ARR) in April to $4 million a month as of last month…”
Kuo: iPhone 17 will use new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip made in-house by Apple
“…Visa, President of Technology Rajat Taneja said the company already has more than 500 generative artificial intelligence applications in use…Visa’s deployments include a tool that finds security bugs in code, chatbots designed to act as subject matter experts on various areas of the business and a tool that helps subscribers customize timings of their billing cycles…”
Uranus’ moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface, study finds
“…We’re training the Llama 4 models on a cluster that is bigger than 100,000 H100s, or bigger than anything that I’ve seen reported for what others are doing…”
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