TLDR 2023-11-14

Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default. Google and Apple had objected to making this information public, but a witness from Google let it slip during their testimony. It is unclear how much money this amounts to, but it is estimated that Apple likely gets paid tens of billions of dollars out of the deal. Google pays a total of $26 billion for its default contracts.

Nvidia has revealed the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, a follow-up of the H100GPU released last year. The H200 utilizes the Hopper architecture to accelerate AI applications. It could lead to far more powerful AI models and faster response times for existing ones. The lack of computing power has been a major bottleneck for AI progress. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be the first cloud service providers to deploy H200-based instances starting next year. The H200 will be generally available starting in Q2 2024.

Joby Aviation and Volocopter performed brief demonstration flights of their electric aircraft in New York City over the weekend. New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants to electrify two of the three heliports located in Manhattan. The city aims to reduce emissions by 80% from a 2005 baseline by 2025. Joby is aiming to initially roll out a commercial service in New York and Los Angeles as part of a city-to-airport service deal with Delta Airlines.

CAR T cell therapy is a powerful type of immunotherapy that has begun to revolutionize cancer treatment. It involves engineering a patient's T cells so they recognize and attack cancer cells. New research has shown that disrupting a single gene in CAR T cells can make them more potent and able to fight tumors longer. The approach improved the therapy's effectiveness against multiple cancers in mice.

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This repository is an effort to create a similar experience to OpenAI's GPTs. It allows developers to configure over 60 LLMs, prompts, over 100 tools, vector databases, retrieval algorithms, and chat history databases. The project uses LangChain, LangServe, and LangSmith.

This article presents a mental model of LLMs and how their limitations can be overcome. A mental model of LLMs is needed to know where they work well, where they don't, and how best to use them. Most people already have a similar model for Google without realizing it - it's assumed everyone knows how to talk to Google, but that wasn't always the case. LLMs are basically like booksmart Harvard graduates who can Google anything to answer any question you ask them.

OpenAI recruiters are trying to poach senior researchers from Google's AI teams with pay packages ranging from $5 million to $10 million. Workers joining the company will receive stock that could potentially quickly triple in value. They will also receive large stock grants later on. The movement of employees is not only one way - some employees have jumped in the other direction from OpenAI to Google as well.

Apple came out in support of a right-to-repair bill in California in August. The Right to Repair Act guarantees everyone access to parts, tools, and manuals for fixing their electronic devices. Apple had pledged to honor the new law nationwide, but its newest iPhone release appears impossible to fully repair without paying Apple money. This article looks at the right-to-repair movement and how the industry is responding to it.

Any system determined to have achieved artificial general intelligence will be excluded from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft.

Construction for Tesla's 1950s-style diner and drive-in movie theater Supercharger station has begun at 7001 West Santa Monica Blvd in LA.

Too many office environments are hostile to collaboration - return-to-office mandates can tear teams apart, at a huge cost.

Coding as a valuable skill might soon fade from the world.

Loro is a Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) library that makes building local-first apps easier.

OpenAI is working on GPT-5 and it plans to raise more capital from Microsoft to support its development efforts.