Meta promises AI agents 🤖, iMessage for Windows 💬, platform engineering for LLM era 👨‍💻

Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR TLDR 2023-04-27 📱 Big Tech & Startups Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’ (3 minute read) Meta is exploring was to introduce AI agents into chat, visual creation tools, video, and multi-modal experiences. It aims to develop tools that will be valuable for everyone. The work on AI agents will extend into the company's metaverse project. Meta says that it is no longer behind in its AI infrastructure. Its new generative AI products will be released in the coming months. Microsoft Phone Link brings iMessage to Windows today (2 minute read) Microsoft is rolling out limited support for iMessage in Windows 11 via the Phone Link app over the next few weeks. iPhone users will be able to use Phone Link to make and take calls, read and respond to text messages, see notifications, and access their iOS contacts list. Phone Link is unable to participate in group messaging or send or receive images or videos. The features will only work with iPhones on iOS 14 or later that are connected to a Windows 11 PC via Bluetooth. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology New nanoparticles can perform gene editing in the lungs (5 minute read) Engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have developed a new type of nanoparticle that can deliver encoding messenger RNA in lungs. Injected nanoparticles usually accumulate in the liver. The team created a new lipid nanoparticle that can target cells in the lung that are of interest for lung diseases. Further development of the technology could result in inhalable treatments for cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases. After nearly two years, Virgin Galactic’s space plane returns to the sky (2 minute read) Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity made its first flight independent of its carrier since July 2021 on Wednesday. It was released at an altitude of around 14 kilometers, where it then glided back to a runway in New Mexico. If the review of the data from the flight goes well, the next mission will be a powered spaceflight. Virgin Galactic aims to commence commercial service during the second quarter of 2023. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Platform Engineering in the era of LLMs (7 minute read) Platform engineers create efficient and reliable platforms for product engineers to build upon. It is important for platform engineers to know how to get the maximum benefits from using large language models as product engineers start rapidly adopting LLM-based tools. This article discusses areas that product engineers should focus on that will ensure that their colleagues can use the full potential of AI tools for maximum productivity. Making engineering environments LLM-friendly will ensure that engineers will be able to use the latest LLM-based assistants as they become available. DeepFloyd IF (GitHub Repo) DeepFloyd IF is a modular model designed to generate high-quality images from text prompts. The base model creates 64x64 pixel images, while two super-resolution models create 256x256 px and 1024x1024 px versions of the image. DeepFloyd IF achieves a zero-shot FID score of 6.66 on the COCO dataset, outperforming current state-of-the-art models. Examples of images generated by DeepFloyd IF are available in the repository. 🎁 Miscellaneous Meet the people who use Notion to plan their whole lives (8 minute read) This article looks at the different ways that people are using Notion. A growing number of people are using Notion to organize their personal lives. Notion is software intended for work, but it can be used to track habits, make schedules, create and share lists, and more. Its high level of customizability sets it apart from other work apps and is what makes it so popular. Why does did Google Brain exist? (11 minute read) Google Brain and DeepMind merged into 'Google DeepMind' last week, killing the Brain brand. Google Brain hosted a lot of research projects, many seemingly just for research's sake, but some of it has resulted in breakthrough technologies like TensorFlow, TPUs, JAX, and Transformers. Its bottom-up, research culture contributed strongly to these breakthroughs. The DeepMind merger will likely result in project cancellations, mergers, and reallocations of headcounts. There will probably be clashes between DeepMind's top-down culture with Brain's bottom-up culture. ⚡ Quick Links First Republic's dramatic slide continues as regional bank looks for rescue deal (3 minute read) First Republic's shares have dropped more than 90% year to date, hitting an all-time low on Wednesday. Payments 101 for a Developer (10 minute read) This guide discusses core concepts developers need to know about payments. Amazon starts layoffs impacting HR and cloud unit (6 minute read) The most recent round of layoffs is expected to affect 9,000 employees. Tech jobs remain a good bet despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley (3 minute read) There are still plenty of tech jobs in the US even for those without college degrees. PentestGPT (GitHub Repo) PentestGPT is a penetration testing tool powered by ChatGPT designed to automate the penetration testing process. How BeReal missed its moment (7 minute read) BeReal's novelty is wearing off and the team failed to shop more than a couple of user-facing features over the past nine months, leading to a steep decline in monthly users. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters covering AI, crypto, and web dev! TLDR Talent is our exclusive community where we help world-class tech talent and get intros to companies of their choice, along with a number of exciting startups and tech companies curated by TLDR. We give you full control of the process, you can specify if you’re actively searching or passively interested only if something amazing comes along. 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