OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money (5 minute read)
OpenAI's monthly revenue hit $300 million in August and it expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales this year. However, it expects to lose roughly $5 billion after paying for costs related to running its services. There will also be other costs such as equity-based compensation to employees. Its biggest cost is the computing power it gets through a partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI plans to raise ChatGPT Plus to $44 over the next five years.
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Meta's new AI-made posts open a Pandora's box (3 minute read)
Meta is starting to test personalized content created by Meta AI in Facebook and Instagram. Content will be generated based on interests, with some featuring the user's likeness. Users will be able to edit the content or swipe to see more content generated in real time. They will be able to opt out of the feature.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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SpaceX launches rescue mission to return stranded astronauts (4 minute read)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on Saturday with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov on board. The mission has two empty seats to return Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded for months on the International Space Station. Their stay was only supposed to last 8 days, but a problem with Boeing's Starliner's propulsion system prevented their return. Their total stay will end up lasting 8 months.
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Google unveils AlphaChip AI-assisted chip design technology — chip layout as a game for a computer (4 minute read)
Google's AlphaChip reinforcement learning method for designing chip layouts promises to substantially speed up the design of chip floorplans and make them more optimal in terms of performance, power, and area. The method has been instrumental in designing Google's Tensor Processing Units. Its success has inspired a wave of new research into using AI for different stages of chip design. The method has been shared with the public - a link to the repository is available in the article.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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mitata (GitHub Repo)
mitata is a tool for benchmarking. It features automatic garbage collection and universal compatibility with engines and runtimes. mitata makes augmenting benchmarks easy and provides helpful warnings. It provides visualizations in the terminal as well as clear summaries.
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When To Do What You Love (7 minute read)
There's a lot of selection bias in advice about whether to follow your passion. Most people telling you to follow your passion became successful by doing what they're most interested in. One of the requirements for doing great work is that the person is working on what interests them most. Not everyone can do or wants to do great work. However, the root of great work is a sort of ambitious curiosity which can't be manufactured.
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The messy WordPress drama, explained (8 minute read)
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg last week came out with a harsh attack on major WordPress hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company a 'cancer' to the community. This has escalated into a barrage of legal threats that has caught many website operators in a conflict beyond their control. WP Engine customers were off from accessing WordPress.org's servers, but the company has been granted a temporary reprieve. WP Engine claims that Automattic demanded a very large sum of money days before Mullenweg's attack and threatened to carry out a 'scorched earth nuclear approach' toward WP Engine if the amount wasn't received. Many more details about the situation are available in the article.
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