OpenAI new APIs 👨‍💻, Meta's AR/VR roadmap leaks 👓, state of tech job market 💼

Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With Daily Update 2023-03-02 Secureframe: Easy SOC 2 compliance + AI-based RFP automation (Sponsor) With a streamlined workflow and expert guidance, Secureframe automates the entire compliance process, end-to-end. What makes Secureframe different? Get audit-ready and achieve compliance in weeks, not months with built-in remediation guidance and 100+ integrations. Stay compliant with the latest regulations and requirements including ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, and other standards. Automate responses to RFPs and security questionnaires with AI. Trusted by hyper-growth organizations: AngelList, Ramp, Lob, Remote, and thousands of other businesses. Schedule a personalized demo of Secureframe 📱 Big Tech & Startups ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps (2 minute read) OpenAI has released ChatGPT and Whisper AI APIs for developers. ChatGPT is a model for generating coherent text and is priced at $0.002 per 1,000 tokens (about 750 words). The Whisper API is priced at $0.006 per minute. It accepts audio inputs in multiple formats and can transcribe audio to text with accuracy comparable to a skilled human transcriptionist. OpenAI has modified its terms of service to no longer use data submitted for service improvements, including model training. This is Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years (8 minute read) Meta has announced its roadmap for augmented and virtual reality products. The company plans to launch its first pair of smart glasses with a display and a neural interface smartwatch to control them in 2025 and its first full-fledged AR glasses in 2027. Later this year, the company will release its flagship Quest 3 headset, which will be two times thinner than its predecessor, at least twice as powerful, and slightly more expensive at $400. A more 'accessible' headset codenamed Ventura is planned for release in 2024 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Meet the world’s first artificial energy island (2 minute read) Princess Elisabeth Island is an artificial energy island being developed by Elia, a Belgian electricity transmission system operator. It will act as a hub for electricity transmission, receiving power from the Princess Elisabeth Zone, the second Belgian offshore wind zone, and from interconnectors with other European countries. Construction is expected to begin in early 2024 with completion in mid-2026 and full connection to all wind farms and the mainland by 2030. The Belgian government has awarded the project a grant of €100 million. A video about the project is available in the article. Microsoft unveils Kosmos-1, an AI language model with visual perception abilities (3 minute read) Microsoft researchers have introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that is capable of analyzing images for content, solving visual puzzles, recognizing visual text, and understanding natural language instructions. The model is seen as a step towards building an artificial general intelligence that can perform tasks at the same level as humans. Kosmos-1 can analyze images, read text from an image, and write captions for images. Microsoft plans to make Kosmos-1 available to developers. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science MRSK (GitHub Repo) MRSK is a web app deployment tool that features zero downtime. It works seamlessly across multiple hosts and can be used to deploy any type of web app that can be containerized. It was built for Rails applications but can be used with other types of apps. MRSK can be used with cloud services or on bare metal servers and can be set up in minutes. Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning (14 minute read) This article explores the CSS anchor positioning API and presents a variety of solutions for tethering elements. Currently, developers must rely on tracking positions, using wrapper elements, or introducing extra markup with JavaScript, which can be challenging and inefficient. The CSS anchor positioning API is a CSS API for tethering elements, allowing developers to size and position one element based on the size and position of another. Fraud-stack as a service - free for devs and young startups (Sponsor) Fraud sucks. Dealing with account takeover, payment fraud, and other types of dodgy behavior places a large burden on overworked dev teams. Dodgeball makes it simple — one integration that hooks into key risk moments (signup, sign-in, payments), tracks users, runs workflows, and returns a response (approve, deny, review). Signup for the free product to shut the fraud up 🎁 Miscellaneous Tesla Investor Day news hub: Master Plan Part 3, new vehicle platform and more (2 minute read) Tesla held its first Investor Day at Gigafactory Texas in Austin yesterday. At the event, CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Master Plan Part 3, which outlined plans to scale to 20 million vehicles per year by the end of the decade. Tesla discussed long term expansion plans, its generation 3 platform, capital allocation, and supply chain strategies. It also announced new factories, including Gigafactory Mexico. A video recording of the event is available in the article. Four Experts on Tech Hiring Talk About Where the Jobs Are (8 minute read) Despite fears of artificial intelligence leading to mass unemployment, the unemployment rate for computer and mathematical occupations is just 1.5%, far below the 3.9% for the overall workforce. This article features interviews with four experts in the tech hiring scene on why humans are still needed in the tech sector. There is still enormous demand for people who know how to work with big data and AI can't replace jobs that require understanding human needs. ⚡ Quick Links Work in IT or cyber? Participate in research to earn up to $200 per study (Sponsor) Participant HQ is looking for IT and cyber professionals for paid research studies. Earn up to $200 per short study. Join Participate HQ for free to start earning NASA’s DART impactor shows how planetary defense can work (7 minute read) NASA's DART mission shortened its target asteroid's orbit by half an hour. Database Cryptography Fur the Rest of Us (26 minute read) An accessible and fun introduction to real-world database cryptography. Nvidia’s new AI upscaling tech makes low-res videos look sharper in Chrome, Edge (8 minute read) Nvidia's latest driver for its 30- and 40-series desktop and mobile GPUs can boost sharpness and eliminate blocky compression artifacts in videos displayed in Chrome and Edge. Service Weaver (GitHub Repo) Service Weaver is a programming framework for writing, deploying, and managing distributed applications. Tesla displays impressive-looking ‘pre-production beta Cybertruck’ at Investor Day (2 minute read) This article contains pictures and videos of the pre-production beta Cybertruck displayed at Tesla's Investor Day event. OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond" (18 minute read) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman insists that safety is a priority in a document recently released by the company called 'Planning For AGI And Beyond'. 👨‍💻 Jobs NorthOne - Product Designer (Fully Remote, $80,000 - $120,000) NorthOne is hiring a Product Designer to design features and solutions for a business banking and financial management platform that services small businesses across America. Your Part-Time Controller, LLC - Lead Developer/Analyst - Lead Developer/Analyst - Microsoft Full Stack (Fully Remote) Your Part-Time Controller is hiring a Lead Developer/Analyst to develop and maintain a variety of software for a national leader in providing outsourced accounting services to nonprofit organizations. NorthOne - Product Manager, Banking (Fully Remote, $120,000 - $160,000) NorthOne is hiring a Product Manager to work on its core banking product for a business banking and financial management platform that lets anyone run a successful small business. You may also like to see more jobs or hire through our free job board. If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Dan If you don't want to receive future editions of TLDR, please click here to unsubscribe.