GPT-4 next week 🤖, Silicon Valley Bank collapse 🏦, Google's ML compiler 👨‍💻

Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With Daily Update 2023-03-10 Gcore CDN: Website acceleration as a service, from $0/mo (Sponsor) CDNs make everything better. Need one you can trust? Gcore CDN is global, fast, and flexible: Low latency with 140+ PoPs worldwide and smart routing Smaller-sized file transfers with Brotli, Gzip, WebP, or AVIF compression Runs on Gcore’s global network to provide predictable high performance Optimized for video streaming (VOD and live) Gcore infrastructure is trusted by Wargaming, Graphcore, Bandai Namco, Avast, and other digital-native businesses. Get started for free 📱 Big Tech & Startups Big news from Microsoft CTO Andreas Braun (1 minute read) Microsoft CTO Andreas Braun announced that GPT-4 will be released as early as next week. The new model will be multimodal and will have video capabilities. The announcement was made during the 'AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff' hybrid event held on March 9 where Microsoft Germany employees presented LLMs like the GPT series. Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight ChatGPT (3 minute read) Google was threatened by Facebook's rise to success in 2011. This prompted the company to issue a decree to its employees to build social features into everything, with their bonuses tied to Google's social success. The decree resulted in ham-fisted social integrations across Google that users despised, such as YouTube comments being tied to Google+ and the real name policy. Just like with the company's social panic, its current ChatGPT panic may see employees' ratings and reviews for promotions influenced by their ability to integrate artificial intelligence into their work. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Scientists create mice with two fathers after making eggs from male cells (4 minute read) Scientists from Japan have created mice with two fathers by cultivating eggs from male cells. The baby mice showed normal growth, a normal lifespan, and managed to have offspring as adults. This development may lead to treatments for infertility and could help same-sex couples have their own biological child. The researchers suggest that it could be possible to create a viable human egg from a male skin cell in less than ten years. Researchers Say They've Created Superconductors At Room Temperature (4 minute read) Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a superconducting material at room temperature and feasible levels of pressure. While superconductivity is already used in MRI machines, mass spectrometers, and particle accelerators, materials typically have to be kept at extremely low temperatures, making them difficult, impractical, and costly to maintain. By producing a material that exhibits superconductivity at 69 degrees Fahrenheit and ten kilobars of pressure, which is the pressure common in microchip factories, this breakthrough could lead to more cost-effective and consumer-friendly applications of superconductivity including in areas such as consumer electronics, energy transfer lines, transportation, and magnetic confinement for fusion energy. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science XLA (GitHub Repo) XLA is a machine learning compiler for GPUs, CPUs, and ML accelerators. It can optimize models from various popular ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX for high-performance execution on different hardware platforms. Writing a Kubernetes Operator (10 minute read) The mirrord for Teams project required a persistent component capable of synchronizing independent uses of the service within a user's cluster. To achieve this, the team needed a Kubernetes-native and cluster-synchronized component. After researching, the team discovered the Kubernetes Operator/Controller pattern. This article presents a step-by-step approach for newcomers interested in the operator pattern. Find a job without jobhunting (Sponsor) Hired has 2,762 open positions for tech roles: engineering, product management, design, and sales. The best part? You don’t need to apply for jobs — companies approach you with salary details upfront. Zoom, Shopify, Dropbox, and 10k other companies have already hired on Hired. Join now to get offers (100% free for candidates) 🎁 Miscellaneous Silicon Valley Bank shoots self in foot (3 minute read) Silicon Valley Bank is seeking an acquisition due to a loss of roughly 60% in shares. The bank lost $1.8 billion from the sale of US treasuries and mortgage-backed securities due to rising interest rates. It announced a plan to safeguard its business by selling $1.25 billion of its common stock to investors, with the goal of raising money to stabilize itself. The response to its announcement has been overwhelmingly negative. Has the generative AI pricing collapse already started? (6 minute read) OpenAI's pricing for its ChatGPT model is ten times lower than its own Davinci model despite ChatGPT performing better in several areas including math, sentiment analysis, and prompt categories. The model is likely to attract customers due to its high performance and low cost, causing trouble for OpenAI's competitors, who until now had been pricing their models against the more expensive Davinci. Many Davinci users are expected to shift to ChatGPT. ⚡ Quick Links Not all speech-to-text is created equal. Find your fit with Deepgram's free assessment (Sponsor) Don't settle for a speech-to-text provider until you're certain they can solve your unique audio needs. Otherwise, you'll end up building workarounds for systems that don't work. Take this free assessment to find the best fit! Tragic Methods (GitHub Repo) This repository contains a collection of scripts depicting the strange quirks of programming languages. Epic Games has big plans for its store, has its mobile apps ready (3 minute read) Epic Games has launched tools to self-publish video games and it is preparing to launch its store on iPhone and Android. Slowly, Then Suddenly: How Products Fail (8 minute read) While people are still tweeting despite service interruptions, there is reason to believe that this might not go on forever. Microsoft’s Bing hits 100 million active users thanks to AI chat, Edge browser (2 minute read) Roughly a third of Bing's millions of active users are people who weren't using the service before the introduction of AI chat. mapCIDR (GitHub Repo) mapCIDR is a library and stand-alone CLI tool that was designed to simplify the load balancing process for large-scale scanning tasks. Scientists treated heart attacks in mice — before they happened (4 minute read) The intervention allowed mice to recover from heart damage that occurred months after treatment. 👨‍💻 Jobs NexGen Cloud - Scrum Master (Fully Remote, $90 - $120/hr) NexGen Cloud is hiring a Scrum Master to lead a scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices for one of the largest & most advanced European Cloud & Web3 IaaS businesses and solutions providers. NexGen Cloud - Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Fully Remote, $50 - $120/hr) NexGen Cloud is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to provide client-facing on-call support for OpenStack for an innovative IaaS company focused on bridging the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Crypto Battles - Crypto Social Media Manager (Fully Remote, Up to $80,000) Crypto Battles is hiring a Crypto Social Media Manager to grow and manage various social media channels, engage with followers, and create content for a non-trading game built on Polygon. 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.