Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory (3 minute read)
A recent tweet from Tesla's official account listed a rundown of the company's accomplishments under Elon Musk's leadership since 2018, when the $55 billion pay package was approved by shareholders. The last item on the list claims that the company has two Optimus robots performing tasks in a factory autonomously. Musk recently said that the Optimus robot might go on sale as soon as next year. It is expected to cost 'less than half of a car'.
NLUX is a conversational AI JavaScript library that provides a UI for large language models. It makes it super simple to integrate powerful large language models into web apps. NLUX features React components and hooks, LLM adapters, streaming LLM output, and custom renderers.
The video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs (18 minute read)
10,900 video game industry employees have been laid off so far in 2024 compared to the prior record of 10,500 in 2023.
OpenAI Doubles Annualized Revenue to $3.4 Billion (2 minute read)
The vast majority of the revenue comes from OpenAI's products and services - the company has been working to boost revenue by selling services to enterprise customers.
Tesla shareholders vote to reinstate Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package (3 minute read)
This article provides a summary of what was discussed at Tesla's annual meeting. Tesla shareholders have voted to ratify CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package. While the vote doesn't override an earlier court ruling that ordered Tesla to rescind the package, it provides a public relations victory for Musk and could help him sway a court to give him the performance options in the future. Shareholders also voted to move Tesla's site of incorporation out of Delaware and into Texas.
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration (23 minute read)
Abliteration is a technique that uncensors any large language model without retraining. It effectively removes the model's built-in refusal mechanism, allowing it to respond to all types of prompts. Large language models that are fine-tuned for safety and instruction-following have a stream that moderates the model's ability to refuse requests. Preventing models from representing this direction makes the model lose its ability to refuse requests. Adding to the direction artificially can cause models to refuse even harmless requests. This article discusses the abliteration technique and walks readers through how to implement it.
Programming Is Mostly Thinking (11 minute read)
Instead of pushing people to be typing all the time, managers should instead provide the materials, environment, and processes necessary to ensure that the thinking developers do is of high quality.
Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap to become most valuable public company (2 minute read)
Nvidia is now the most valuable public company in the world. Its market cap surpassed Microsoft's $3.32 trillion on Tuesday, reaching a high of $3.34 trillion. Nvidia's shares are up more than 170% so far this year. Its market cap hit $3 trillion for the first time earlier this month. Nvidia's rise has been so rapid the company has yet to be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the stock benchmark of the 30 most valuable US companies.
The Threads API is finally here! (2 minute read)
Meta's Threads API is now available to all developers. The API will enable creators, developers, and brands to build their own unique integrations, manage their Threads presence at scale, and easily share content with their communities. It allows people to publish posts, fetch content, set reply and quote controls, retrieve and respond to replies, hide and unhide specific replies, and retrieve key metrics. Links to developer documentation and a sample app are available.
Extensions in Visual Studio Code can do pretty much whatever they want, they automatically update, publisher accounts are too easy to verify, the code shipped in an update can differ from what's on GitHub, and there's no way to verify the data being used in the extension store indicating popularity or trust-worthiness.
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company (3 minute read)
Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI's co-founders and former chief scientist, has launched a new company just a month after formally leaving OpenAI. Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) has only one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. Sutskever has previously predicted that AI with intelligence superior to humans could arrive within the decade, and that when it does, it won't necessarily be benevolent. This necessitates research into ways to control and restrict it. SSI has been designed from the ground up as a for-profit entity. It is currently recruiting technical talent in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.
Valkey gains momentum with broadening band of backers (3 minute read)
Redis alternative Valkey has new backers including Broadcom, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and Instaclustr by NetApp.
China's DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source coding model to beat GPT-4 Turbo (4 minute read)
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released DeepSeek Coder V2, an open source mixture of experts code language model that supports more than 300 programming languages and outperforms state-of-the-art closed-source models like GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.