OpenAI seeks $29B valuation 💰, Android satellite SMS 💬, tech salary transparency 👨‍💻

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Big Tech & Startups

OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, discusses tender offer that could value it at $29B (4 minute read)

A tender offer from Founders Fund and Thrive Capital could see OpenAI valued at as much as $29 billion. Its recent ChatGPT release is on track to revolutionize how people interface with computers. OpenAI's ultimate goal is to create artificial general intelligence. The company intends to achieve this without going public or getting acquired. Its investors are limited to profits of around 20 times their original investment.

Qualcomm says it built a better satellite messaging system than Apple (3 minute read)

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Satellite system will allow Android users to send two-way SMS-style texts through satellite networks for casual conversations. It will run on the Iridium satellite constellation, a 66-satellite network that powers traditional satellite phones. The network runs on the same band as GPS and some mid-band cellular services. Snapdragon Satellite will be available for phones launched in North America and Europe in the second half of the year.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Government Scientists Discover Entirely New Kind of Quantum Entanglement in Breakthrough (5 minute read)

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an entirely new kind of quantum entanglement. The scientists captured interference patterns created by the entanglement of two particles with different charges. Previous experiments have always yielded entangled particles belonging to the same group with the same charge. The technique used in the experiment could help scientists reveal the details inside atomic nuclei and shed light on topics ranging from quantum computing to astrophysics.

What’s next for mRNA vaccines (7 minute read)

Scientists have been working on mRNA-based treatments and vaccines for decades. These vaccines deliver genetic code that the body can use to make proteins for fighting disease. mRNA vaccines are now being developed for a wide range of other diseases such as cancer, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and Zika. It is theoretically possible to make mRNA for any protein to target any infectious disease. However, scientists still need to determine good targets for the vaccines, which can be difficult.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Extracting, converting, and querying data in local files using clickhouse-local (12 minute read)

clickhouse-local is a tool that analyzes and transforms data in files locally using the power of SQL. It allows developers to get the full power of SQL without deploying a local database server. This article presents a guide on how to use clickhouse-local. It contains an overview of its capabilities and shows how the tool can be used to increase productivity.

Vim Online Editor (Website)

This website features an in-browser Vim editor. Users can open files by dragging and dropping them into the frame. The editor supports text objects, syntax highlighting, clipboard register, Vim script, popup windows, and almost all other powerful Vim features.

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Miscellaneous

California forces companies to show pay on job listings, revealing big tech salaries (6 minute read)

Most employers in California are now required to disclose salaries in job listings. The new law, which went into effect this week, affects every company with more than 15 employees. This makes it now possible to know the salaries that top tech companies pay for their workers. There are now 13 cities and states that require employers to share salary information.

First LastPass, now Slack and CircleCI. The hacks go on (3 minute read)

Slack and CircleCI recently announced serious breaches. CircleCI customers are advised to rotate all secrets that they store on their devices. Attackers gained access to Slack employee tokens and used them to download private code repositories. Slack customers aren't affected by the breach. It is possible that these hacks are related to the recent LastPass hack.

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Small teams (2 minute read)

This page contains a list of impressive things accomplished by small teams.

Leaked documents show Amazon's seller lending business is booming (3 minute read)

Amazon expects to roughly double its loans to sellers this year while tightening its underwriting and credit management policies.

How much are tech companies paying for talent? (Website)

This page tracks and publishes salary ranges in job posts from tech companies in CA and NYC.

Mercedes-Benz to build an EV fast-charging network, starting in the US (3 minute read)

Mercedes-Benz plans to deploy more than 10,000 fast chargers around the world as part of its plan to be carbon-neutral by 2039.

Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages (8 minute read)

This article contains a list of quality-of-life features from niche obscure languages that most people might not have seen before.

What is AGI-hard (12 minute read)

There may not be a solution to AGI-hard problems as we do not even know if AGI can be solved.

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Jobs

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Plutosphere is looking for an Android engineer to lead the development of our PlutoSphere Android client for the PlutoSphere VR Streaming service.

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OpenAI seeks $29B valuation 💰, Android satellite SMS 💬, tech salary transparency 👨‍💻

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