Meta readies AI chatbots for artificial companionship and user retention (2 minute read)
Meta is developing a range of AI personas that mimic human-like conversations to increase user engagement. The company envisions AI agents acting as assistants and coaches, helping users interact with businesses and creators. AI personas could provide search, recommendations, and a fun and interactive element for Meta's platforms. Meta plans to roll out the personas as early as September. |
Science & Futuristic Technology
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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice (4 minute read)
Two separate sources have confirmed that a compound called LK-99 can enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. A superconductor that could work in everyday devices would improve most aspects of those devices without any electricity waste in the form of heat. While the material is now confirmed to be real, the manufacturing process still needs further refinements to produce more consistent and higher quality results. A link to a video from Chinese researchers showing proof of LK-99's superconducting capabilities is available in the article. |
A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments (10 minute read)
Korean scientists claiming to have created a well-above-room-temperature superconducting material at ambient pressure may have achieved one of the most sought-after goals in all of materials science and condensed matter physics. The preparation for the material was not very complicated and it didn't require any particularly exotic materials or equipment, so it was expected that many labs would immediately try to reproduce it. This article covers the latest developments from groups that have replicated the process and analyzes their results. The material may be the most believable shot at room-temperature-and-pressure superconductivity the world has seen yet. |
Programming, Design & Data Science
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Fern - SDKs and Documentation for your API (Sponsor)
Fern is an open source CLI that creates client libraries and API docs for REST APIs. The generated clients can be automatically published to registries like NPM and PyPI. The docs can be personalized to match your existing company website. Fern is compatible with OpenAPI. Learn more. |
Preevy (GitHub Repo)
Preevy allows developers to quickly deploy preview environments to the cloud. It supports various platforms, including affordable VMs from major cloud providers. Preevy features effortless asynchronous updates, parallel end-to-end tests, a streamlined feedback cycle, and hassle-free design reviews. It is designed to optimize the PR flow. |
PromptTools (GitHub Repo)
PromptTools is a set of self-hostable tools for experimenting with, testing, and evaluating large language models, vector databases, and prompts. It allows developers to evaluate using code, notebooks, and a local playground. Developers can test prompts and parameters across different models with just a few lines of code. PromptTools can be used to evaluate the retrieval accuracy of vector databases. |
Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand (28 minute read)
AI may be being bottlenecked by the supply of GPUs. The shortage is causing all kinds of limits on product rollouts and model training. Things will accelerate once supply meets demand. This article looks at what is causing the bottleneck, how long it will last, and what would help resolve it. |
We can save what matters about writing - at a price (6 minute read)
Generative AI is going to change the way educators assess students. It will still be possible to assess students through essays and assignments, but teachers will have to focus on the process rather than the finished result. Assessing how students arrive at an answer makes it harder for students to cheat and it also helps with learning. Teachers may need to devise questions where the answering process can't be simulated. |
Ax (GitHub Repo)
Ax is a framework designed for creating higher-level TypeScript AI features and products. |
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