Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots (4 minute read)
Anthropic's newest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is reportedly equal to or better than OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Gemini across a wide variety of tasks. The model performs well in benchmarks, suggesting that Anthropic has built a legitimate competitor in the space. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available now to web and iOS users and will be available to developers as well. Anthropic is introducing a new feature called Artifacts that will allow users to see, interact with, and edit the results of their Claude requests.
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Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” (2 minute read)
Dell announced a return-to-office initiative earlier this year that involved workers having to classify themselves as remote or hybrid. Those who chose to classify themselves as remote had to agree that they could no longer be promoted or hired into new roles within the company. Nearly 50% of Dell's workforce opted to stay remote. Many interviewed employees admitted that they were looking for work at other companies that weren't trying to force employees back to the office. Many other companies are struggling to restore in-person work.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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SpaceX unveils backpack-sized ‘Starlink Mini' satellite internet antenna for $599 (3 minute read)
SpaceX is rolling out a mobile option for its satellite internet customers. Starlink Mini is a backpack-sized kit designed to provide high-speed, low-latency internet on the go. SpaceX is offering a limited number of the antennas for $599 in an early access release. Service for the Starlink Mini will be effectively $150 a month and capped at 50 gigabytes of data per month. SpaceX has not announced when Starlink Mini deliveries will begin.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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New iOS 18 API brings AirPods setup experience to third-party accessories (1 minute read)
AccessorySetupKit is a new API in iOS 18 that gives third-party accessories the same setup experience as Apple accessories such as AirPods and AirTag. Devices running iOS 18 will show a pairing confirmation popup when the right app detects a compatible accessory. The system will automatically handle all the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity required by the accessory. A video showing what the new feature will look like is available.
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es-toolkit (GitHub Repo)
es-toolkit is a JavaScript utility library with a small bundle size and strong type annotations. It offers a variety of everyday utility functions with modern implementations. es-toolkit is designed with performance in mind and reduces JavaScript code by up to 97% compared to other libraries. It has built-in TypeScript support with straightforward types and useful type guards.
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Why Americans aren't buying more EVs (14 minute read)
Electric vehicles are still too expensive to be accessible to millions of Americans. High prices, high interest rates, and concerns over driving range and charging infrastructure have chilled buyers' enthusiasm, even among those who consider themselves green. The US government has set policies that hit Chinese manufacturers of cars, batteries, and other components with punitive taxes. It also restricts federal tax incentives for consumers buying Chinese products. While the laws aim to allow the US to develop its own supply chains, analysts say such protectionism will result in higher EV prices for US consumers in the meantime and slow down EV adoption in the US.
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Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble? (Hacker News Thread)
While generative AI will likely be incredibly important in the future, there seems to be a lot of high expectations of how useful it can be in the near future, and ideas around business models are fuzzy like in the dot com era. If these near-future expectations don't pan out, companies could slow down their R&D expenditures, leading to a sizable stock market correction. There are clear differences between AI and the dot com bubble, so the comparison doesn't exactly hold.
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New York bans ‘addictive feeds' for teens (3 minute read)
New York has introduced two new bills - one will require parental consent for social media companies to use addictive feeds powered by recommendation algorithms on people under 18 and the other would limit data collection on minors without consent and restrict the sale of such information.
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