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Today's top stories
🔥 Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time
O2 introduces Daisy, an AI granny designed to waste scammers' time, protecting customers from fraud while raising awareness.
🔥 AI makes tech debt more expensive
AI increases the cost of tech debt, favoring companies with high-quality codebases while complicating legacy systems.
🔥 Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
LLMs show inconsistent chess performance; only GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct excels, raising questions about model training and architecture.
🔥 The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast
AI engineering is becoming accessible to all, thanks to open source models and simplified tools for building applications.
🔥 Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess
LLMs show inconsistent chess performance; only GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct excels, while others struggle significantly.
🔥 BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners
BERTs can perform generative in-context learning, revealing distinct strengths compared to causal models, suggesting hybrid approaches.
🔥 AI progress stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic hit roadblocks
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic face setbacks in AI development, struggling with model performance and data quality challenges.
Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge
Language agents like PaperQA2 surpass human experts in synthesizing and analyzing scientific literature, achieving superhuman accuracy.
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Feed You More AI Slop
Mark Zuckerberg plans to increase AI-generated content on Facebook, despite concerns over its quality and relevance.
Tessl raises $125M for a zero maintenance, spec-centric AI software dev platform
Tessl secures $125M to launch a spec-centric AI software development platform, aiming to revolutionize software creation and maintenance.
Prompt Injecting Your Way to Shell: OpenAI's Containerized ChatGPT Environment
The blog explores OpenAI's containerized ChatGPT, revealing how prompt injections allow file management and access to internal instructions.
Google loses yet another AI pioneer as Keras creator leaves
François Chollet, Keras creator, leaves Google to co-found a new venture but will remain involved with Keras development.
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Mac Now Works with Xcode
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Mac now integrates with Xcode, enhancing coding workflows by allowing direct code interaction.
Image-Text Curation for 1B+ Data: Faster, Better, Smaller Clip Models
DatologyAI's new data curation pipeline enhances image-text model training, achieving faster, better, and smaller models at scale.
How AI is beating VCs in their own game
GPTree combines explainable decision trees with LLMs, outperforming VCs in identifying "unicorn" startups with 7.8% precision.
Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank
HumaneRank proposes a system to value humans in an AI-dominated economy by allowing individuals to endorse each other, influencing resource distribution.
Full upstream support coming for MediaTek's IoT Edge AI Genio platforms
MediaTek partners with Collabora to enhance upstream support for its IoT Edge AI Genio platforms, improving integration with Linux.
Show HN: PromptL, a templating language designed for LLM prompting
PromptL is a templating language for LLM prompting, enabling structured, dynamic, and reusable prompt creation.
ChatGPT can now read some of your Mac's desktop apps
ChatGPT can now read code from select Mac desktop apps, enhancing developer collaboration but not writing code directly.
Show HN: Memoripy – AI Memory Layer with Short- & Long-Term Memory, Clustering
Memoripy is an AI memory layer for context-aware apps, offering short/long-term storage, clustering, and memory decay features.
Pathfinder – An AI-Powered Itinerary Planner
Pathfinder is an AI tool that creates personalized itineraries for your dream holiday, offering practical tips and local insights.
AMD to cut 4% of global workforce as it focuses on AI chip development
AMD is cutting 4% of its workforce to focus on AI chip development, aiming to compete with Nvidia in the growing market.
Show HN: PerfAgents – Find Issues Before Your Users Do with Synthetic Monitoring
PerfAgents simplifies synthetic monitoring with AI-driven automation, supporting multiple frameworks for continuous performance validation.
Machine Learning Algorithms in Depth
Explore in-depth machine learning algorithms, covering Bayesian inference, deep learning, and various classification techniques.
From Stripe: Adding payments to your LLM agentic workflows
Stripe's toolkit enhances LLM workflows by integrating payments, enabling automated financial tasks and usage-based billing.
The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies
The book explores DARPA's transformative technology model, its successes, and lessons for other agencies in innovation.
Show HN: Saga – Cursor/Copilot for note taking
Saga is an AI-powered workspace for seamless note-taking, task management, and real-time collaboration, enhancing productivity.