Meta is Laying Off Employees at WhatsApp, Instagram, and More
8 days ago
The smaller cuts seem to coincide with reorganizations of specific teams.
Amazon Goes Nuclear, to Invest More Than $500 Million to Develop Small Modular Reactors
8 days ago
Amazon has signed an agreement with Dominion Energy to explore the development of a small modular nuclear reactor near Dominion's existing North Anna nuclear power station. Google and Microsoft have announced similar plans. Tech companies are increasingly buying into nuclear power to fuel the growin
Smart Insulin Prevents Diabetic Highs — and Deadly Lows
8 days ago
Scientists have created a new form of insulin that can modify its activity in response to glucose levels in the blood, reducing high blood sugar concentrations while preventing levels from dropping too low. It has been tested in pigs and rats with encouraging results. Further research to optimize th
Google Chrome is Switching to Manifest V3, but What Does That Mean for Ad Blockers?
8 days ago
While Manifest V3 makes things harder for ad blockers, it's not the death of ad blockers by any stretch. uBlock Origin already has a new version built on Manifest V3 that works almost as well as the Manifest V2 version and with added privacy and performance benefits. However, there are quite a few f
Code that is working for the wrong reasons is code that is going to break when you least expect it.
Kloudlite is an open-source platform designed to provide seamless and secure development environments for building distributed applications that connects local workspaces with remote Kubernetes environments via a WireGuard network.
Palantir: The Founder Foundry
8 days ago
Palantir has produced a remarkable number of founders and technology leaders - this article looks at what makes the company special through the lens of company building and helping other founders apply best practices.
Nature's Many Attempts to Evolve a Nostr
8 days ago
Nostr uses a new fundamental architecture for distributed protocols: Relay.
Small Businesses Getting Deepfaked Now
8 days ago
It looks like small businesses are getting deepfaked now: Meet 'Ethos,' Austin's fake #1 restaurant. All AI-generated… even the croissant hippo. The most criminal part about this is the fact that croissant Hippo isn’t real… would 100% buy. Reddit sleuths investigated and found that the only part of
Apple Researchers Debunk AI's Ability to Reason
8 days ago
Apple's AI team published a paper debunking AI’s ability to reason. They showed that popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT struggle with basic reasoning that most humans take for granted. The researchers developed a new benchmark called GSM-Symbolic to test these models. Changing numerical values in ques
Automate Sales Follow-up Emails with AI
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Attention offers AI-powered automation for sales follow-up emails, allowing users to send personalized emails within minutes of ending a call, gain cross-call insights, and receive live coaching during calls. Users report saving time and increasing productivity with Attention's automated CRM data en
Accel released a report revealing that 40% of all VC funding for cloud startups (around $79B) went to those focusing on genAI. LatticeFlow's LLM Checker tool tested top AI models for compliance with the EU AI Act. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute collaborated on developing AI for the el
Real-Time Insights for Sales with Gladia
8 days ago
Gladia introduced Gladia Real-Time, a tool specialized in state-of-the-art speech AI APIs that provide real-time insights from voice conversations to help close deals and enhance customer experience. Try Gladia Real-Time for free to unlock instant insights.
Spectra 2024: Edge Computing Insights
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Spectra 2024 features edge computing leaders discussing tomorrow’s smart tech and equipping attendees with tools to create intelligent products. Hear from TensorFlow pioneer Pete Warden, Edge Impulse co-founders Zach Shelby and Jan Jongboom, Qualcomm AI Hub head Siddhika Nevrekar, and Particle CEO Z
Building a One-Person Business with Only 60 Minutes a Day
8 days ago
Thinking of yourself as a one-person business is a powerful mindset. It changes how you act and it increases your value. Even if you’re an employee you’re technically a business of one. In this article, I’m going to talk about turning yourself into a one-person business after hours. I know many of y
State of AI Report 2024 Summary
8 days ago
2024 was the year that frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI converged, and in fact Claude outdid ChatGPT in many areas while both frantically building Enterprise AI products. This was a long report and took me two entire days to come up with. It’s not just a reader-friendly summary of the State o
Together AI introduces LoLCATs
9 days ago
Together AI introduces LoLCATs: Convert existing LLMs to subquadratic variants at LoRA finetune cost.
Mistral AI Introduces Ministral 3B and 8B
9 days ago
Mistral AI has launched two new language models, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, aimed at on-device computing and edge use cases. These models set a new frontier in knowledge, commonsense, reasoning, function-calling, and efficiency in the sub-10B category. Key highlights include Ministral 3B achievi
NVIDIA H200 GPU with Ori Global Cloud
9 days ago
NVIDIA has released the H200 GPU, now available for reservation through Ori Global Cloud. This GPU boasts 141GB of VRAM, optimized for resource-intensive AI models and high-performance computing. The H200 accelerates large-scale AI training and inference, offering enhanced memory and processing powe
NVIDIA releases open-source Llama 3.1 70B fine-tune
9 days ago
NVIDIA has released the open-source Llama 3.1 70B fine-tune, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 on benchmarks.
Lenovo has unveiled AI Now, an on-device agent without cloud reliance, powered by Meta's Llama 3.1 for enhanced privacy.
Perplexity introduces AI-powered finance tool
9 days ago
Perplexity introduces an AI-powered finance tool, offering real-time stock analysis and historical data for developers.
Unsloth fixes a universal issue in Gradient Accumulation
9 days ago
Unsloth fixes a universal issue in Gradient Accumulation that negatively impacted everyone's training of LLMs.
Deploy new on-demand 1x, 2x, and 4x NVIDIA H100 SXM GPU instances with Lambda
9 days ago
Lambda has added new instances in their public cloud that deliver up to 51% higher performance than PCIe models. AI developers now have cheaper, flexible access to powerful compute without needing full-node 8x setups.
Aria: efficient 3.9B parameter model for text, image, and video processing
9 days ago
Aria is an efficient 3.9B parameter model for text, image, and video processing, outperforming competitors on various benchmarks. It offers superior performance in video and document tasks, with 64K token context window.