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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
INTEL CEO PAT GELSINGER'S DREAM JOB TAKES A NI=
GHTMARISH TURN (5
MINUTE READ) [11]=20
Intel's stock ended Friday tra=
ding down 26 percent. The company
recently reported financial results and=
an outlook with
lower-than-expected revenue and profit-margin forecasts.=
It plans to
lay off around 15,000 employees, target $10 billion in cost =
cuts next
year, and suspend dividend payments in the fourth quarter. Inte=
l's
market value is now at a level last seen 15 years ago.=20
NVIDIA =
REPORTEDLY DELAYS ITS NEXT AI CHIP DUE TO A DESIGN FLAW (2
MINUTE READ) [=
12]=20
Nvidia's Blackwell B200 chips will take at least three months lo=
nger
to produce than was planned. The delay is due to a design flaw that=
was discovered unusually late in the production process. Nvidia is now=
working through a fresh set of test runs and won't ship large numbers
=
of the chips until the first quarter. Microsoft, Google, and Meta have
al=
ready ordered tens of billions of dollars worth of the chips.=20
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
NEURALINK INSTALLS=
ITS BRAIN IMPLANT INTO A SECOND HUMAN PATIENT (3
MINUTE READ) [13]=20
=
Elon Musk announced on a recent podcast that Neuralink has installed
=
its second implant into a human patient. The implant is apparently
workin=
g very well. Musk said last month that there could be over 1,000
humans w=
ith Neuralink implants by 2026. A link to the podcast, in
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length, is available =
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meat is set to ri=
se as the global population is cratering - the
European eel population ha=
s fallen by 98% since 1980. Forsea's
technology allows it to grow differe=
nt types of cells in a single
bioreactor, cutting down on both production=
time and costs. It plans
to launch its product commercially starting in =
Japan in 2026.=20
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POSTGRES SUPPOR=
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ClickHouse has acquired PeerDB, a company foc=
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DB offers speed
improvements and a number of specialized capabilities tha=
t ClickHouse
didn't previously offer. Its open source components will rem=
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UTE READ) [18]=20
OpenAI has a method that can reliably detect when som=
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released it
despite it having been ready for release for about a year. Th=
e company
is concerned that the tool would be unpopular with its users an=
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disproportionately affect some groups. The tool is 99.9% effective
wh=
en there is enough text. However, the watermarks it generates can be
eras=
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into a=
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text and the=
n manually deleting them.=20
MISTRAL AI CEO ARTHUR MENSCH ON MICROSOFT,=
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TLDR
Intel's stock ended Friday trading down 26 percent after it reporte=
d financial results with lower-than-expected revenue and profit-margin fore=
casts
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's D=
ream Job Takes a Nightmarish Turn (5 minute read)
Intel's stock ended Friday trading down=
26 percent. The company recently reported financial results and an outlook=
with lower-than-expected revenue and profit-margin forecasts. It plans to =
lay off around 15,000 employees, target $10 billion in cost cuts next year,=
and suspend dividend payments in the fourth quarter. Intel's market value =
is now at a level last seen 15 years ago.
|
Nvidia reportedly delays it=
s next AI chip due to a design flaw (2 minute read)
Nvidia's Blackwell B200 chips will take=
at least three months longer to produce than was planned. The delay is due=
to a design flaw that was discovered unusually late in the production proc=
ess. Nvidia is now working through a fresh set of test runs and won't ship =
large numbers of the chips until the first quarter. Microsoft, Google, and =
Meta have already ordered tens of billions of dollars worth of the chips.
|
|
Science & Futuristic Technology
|
Neuralink installs its brai=
n implant into a second human patient (3 minute read)
Elon Musk announced on a recent podcast=
that Neuralink has installed its second implant into a human patient. The =
implant is apparently working very well. Musk said last month that there co=
uld be over 1,000 humans with Neuralink implants by 2026. A link to the pod=
cast, in which Musk discusses Neuralink and its brain implant technology at=
length, is available in the article - Musk shares the news near the beginn=
ing of the four hour conversation.
|
Consider the Eel (32 minute=
read)
Forsea Foods is an Israeli startup focu=
sed on growing eel meat in the lab. The company believes that starting with=
a premium offering makes the most sense due to the high costs of productio=
n. The price of eel meat is set to rise as the global population is crateri=
ng - the European eel population has fallen by 98% since 1980. Forsea's tec=
hnology allows it to grow different types of cells in a single bioreactor, =
cutting down on both production time and costs. It plans to launch its prod=
uct commercially starting in Japan in 2026.
|
|
Programming, Design & Data Science
|
Real-time database startup =
ClickHouse acquires PeerDB to expand its Postgres support (4 minute read)=
strong>
ClickHouse has acquired PeerDB, a compa=
ny focused on cost-effective Postgres replication and change data capture. =
PeerDB offers speed improvements and a number of specialized capabilities t=
hat ClickHouse didn't previously offer. Its open source components will rem=
ain open source without any change to their licenses and ClickHouse will al=
so open source the production-grade Helm charts for PeerDB's enterprise off=
ering. Existing commercial customers will be able to use the PeerDB Cloud s=
ervice until July 24 next year.
|
sqlite-vec (GitHub Repo)
sqlite-vec is an extremely small vector=
search SQLite extension. It can store and query float, int8, and binary ve=
ctors in vec0 virtual tables. sqlite-vec doesn't have any dependencies and =
runs anywhere that SQLite runs.
|
|
There's a Tool to Catch Stu=
dents Cheating With ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn't Released It (8 minute read)
OpenAI has a method that can reliably d=
etect when someone has used ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper, bu=
t it hasn't released it despite it having been ready for release for about =
a year. The company is concerned that the tool would be unpopular with its =
users and disproportionately affect some groups. The tool is 99.9% effectiv=
e when there is enough text. However, the watermarks it generates can be er=
ased through simple techniques like having Google translate the text into a=
nother language and back or having ChatGPT add emojis to the text and then =
manually deleting them.
|
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensc=
h on Microsoft, Regulation, and Europe's AI Ecosystem (13 minute read)
Mistral AI has rapidly risen as a homeg=
rown European champion over the past year. The company was valued at more t=
han $6 billion in June. Its CEO, Arthur Mensch, has been vocal in debates o=
ver the EU's AI law, saying that lawmakers should focus on regulating how o=
thers use those models rather than regulating general-purpose AI models lik=
e Mistral's. This article contains an interview with Mensch where he discus=
ses attracting talent, how Mistral plans to turn a profit, and what's missi=
ng from Europe's AI ecosystem.
|
|
Greenmask (GitHub Repo)
Greenmask is a utility designed for log=
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nsive functionality for backup, anonymization, and data masking.
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