TLDR 2024-01-08

Apple reportedly plans to announce a series of new tools based on generative AI and WWDC as part of iOS 18. The new tools will include a revamped version of Siri, a new version of Xcode, and a tool in Apple Music for automatic playlist creation. The technology will also be used for troubleshooting problems with AppleCare. Apple's generative AI vision will likely take until 2025 to fully scale.

Alphabet's Isomorphic's latest deal will add significant weight to Google DeepMind's AlphaFold AI tech, which predicts protein structures to enable potentially faster target discovery and compound construction. The deals involve identifying small molecule therapies for use against undisclosed targets. The announcements are the first to emerge from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The conference will go on until January 11.

Figure 01 is a commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot. At 5'6" and 60kg, it can carry a payload of 20kg and move at a speed of 1.2m/s for around 5 hours of runtime. Its human form factor allows it to perform dexterous tasks and lend support across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail. This thread contains a video showing Figure 01 making a coffee - it learned the task just by watching humans make coffee.

Peregrine mission one aims to put a US lander on the moon on February 23. It is the first mission to fly under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPs) initiative. The mission will carry five NASA payloads and 15 others. It is bound for an ancient lava flow called Sinus Viscositatis, or the Bay of Stickiness. The next mission under the CLPs scheme is due to launch in mid-February and may touch down before Peregrine.

Many web developers have ideas about browsers and the Web that can be a bit dubious. For example, they assume that web browser engineers, web developers, and the people who make Web specifications know the Web really well. Other dubious ideas include the myth that browsers aren't meant to run SPAs, that MPAs will replace SPAs, that all sites should work without JavaScript, that web development shouldn't need a build step, and that what they know is representative of web development at large. It's easy to assume what you know is representative of web development in general, but the field is much broader and deeper than most people know.

CSS in 2024 has cross-browser support for nesting, :has(), container queries, and more. There are now many frameworks and compilers that help optimize CSS loading performance and powerful and fast new CSS tools. This post is a collection of notes and thoughts about the CSS ecosystem. It covers the many changes and provides recommendations for helpful tools.

CES 2024 is a show for just about any kind of tech. The event will deliver more tech news than any other event this year. It starts tomorrow and runs through until Friday. Companies have been trickling out announcements as excitement about the show ramps up. This article contains some of the biggest announcements expected this year. Some of the tech expected this year includes smart TVs centered around AI processing, new electric vehicles, bigger laptops, and new OLED monitors for PC gaming.

Most successful outcomes in tech often take many years to mature. The future is unpredictable and the macro environment can not be controlled. Several big shifts will drive founders and investors to pursue profit-sharing models in 2024 and beyond. Profit-sharing startups will become more popular as people look to diversify their net worth and capture liquidity sooner. This will not preclude founders from raising traditional venture capital - some businesses will still need VC to scale and win a market.

One of Carta's customers revealed last week that the FinTech platform is doing cold outreach to the customer's angel investors about selling its shares to their buyers.

A discussion of what components should be run on a client and what should be run on the server.

Nitro is a TypeScript framework for building ultra-fast web servers.

This article compares the performance of Apple's new M3 series P and E cores to assess what has changed between the M1 and M3.

csvlens is a command-line CSV file viewer.

The FDA has received reports of patients using drugs like semaglutide suffering from a form of hair loss known as alopecia, suicidal ideation, and instances of aspiration in which food and liquids accidentally enter the lungs.