Meta's Quest 3 🥽, Sergey Brin's airship fleet 🎈, building products with LLMs 👨‍💻

Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR TLDR 2023-05-29 📱 Big Tech & Startups Quest 3 hands-on confirms Meta’s building a ‘far thinner and lighter’ headset (3 minute read) Meta's Quest 3 contains a massive set of improvements, according to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg. Codenamed Eureka, the headset is far lighter and thinner than the Quest 2 and it features a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chip, more sensors, an improved system for adjusting the lenses' inter-pupillary distance, a depth sensor, redesigned controllers, and color passthrough. The Quest 3 will likely be more expensive than the Quest 2, but far cheaper than the Quest Pro. There are no details about when the headset will be released. Sergey Brin Has a Secret Plan to Put Airships Back in the Skies (17 minute read) Lighter Than Air, a company backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is getting ready to unveil its first airship, the Pathfinder 1. The company has operated mostly in secrecy since its founding in 2016. The Pathfinder 1 is 122 meters long and 20 meters in diameter at its fattest part. It has 13 helium bladders that provide nonflammable lift. LTA's airships are intended for hauling cargo and delivering supplies to disaster zones. Pictures of the Pathfinder 1 airship are available in the article. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Nestron's wildly popular futuristic 275-square-foot prefab tiny home has arrived in North America - see inside the $96,000 unit (9 minute read) Nestron's prefabricated tiny homes are equipped with an artificial intelligence system, built-in furniture, and more. The company recently started shipments to Canada and it plans to open up 10 dealerships in the US this year. Its homes are generally under $100,000. This article looks at the design of the homes and the current process of importing one of the units. It includes many photos of both the exterior and interior of the dwellings. Creating a sperm or egg from any cell? Reproduction revolution on the horizon (5 minute read) In-vitro gametogenesis (IVG) involves making human eggs and sperm in the laboratory from any cell in a person's body. The process is already perfected in mice and researchers are on the way to making it work for humans. IVG would enable anyone to have children with their own DNA and could replace markets for sperm and eggs. There will need to be laws created to make sure that people can't become genetic parents without their knowledge or consent. The US FDA is already exploring the implications of the technology. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Vue Vine (GitHub Repo) Vue Vine is another style for writing Vue components. It supports writing multiple Vue components in a single file. Vue Vine was designed to provide flexibility when managing Vue components. All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs (12 minute read) It is hard to build a real product backed by a large language model. This article discusses the challenges faced when developing Query Assistant, a natural language querying interface. These challenges included dealing with token limits, high latency, producing the right outputs, dealing with prompt injection, and legal and compliance issues. 🎁 Miscellaneous Sam Altman shares his optimistic view of our AI future (4 minute read) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with heads of governments and startup communities in Europe last week to talk about AI regulation and beyond. Altman said that AI is having a moment now as it is good at many different things and it has been shown to be useful in improving productivity across a wide variety of jobs. He warned that overreaching European regulation could lead to OpenAI leaving the continent. Altman has called for a global regulatory framework to govern AI, similar to nuclear or biotech regulation. OpenAI is now working on better, smarter, cheaper, faster, and more capable models. Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem? (17 minute read) A new book called 'Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks' discusses the infamous case of the Dark Avenger, the hacker notorious for breaking into Paris Hilton's Sidekick II in 2005, the student who designed the Mirai botnet, the Fancy Bear hack by Russian military intelligence, and the Morris Worm. The book posits that there is no permanent solution to the cybersecurity problem as it is a human problem rather than a technological problem. This article contains a transcript of an interview with the author of the book, Scott Shapiro. ⚡ Quick Links Lua: The Little Language That Could (5 minute read) Lua can be picked up in a weekend and used for a wide variety of applications, including auth layers in HAProxy, World of Warcraft addons, Roblox games, and much more. Bluesky rolls out feeds with custom algorithms (2 minute read) Bluesky has rolled out custom feeds, a feature that allows users to subscribe to a variety of different feeds. OpenAI Raises $175 Million For Startup Investment Fund (2 minute read) The OpenAI Startup Fund will back companies pushing the boundaries of how AI can positively impact the world and change people's lives. Apache Baremaps (GitHub Repo) Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and set of infrastructure components that enable developers to build maps with different data sources, live reload capabilities, location search, IP to location, and more. Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused (9 minute read) A lawyer asked ChatGPT for examples of cases that supported an argument they were trying to make and ChatGPT hallucinated several supporting cases with full details. Gorilla (GitHub Repo) Gorilla allows LLMs to invoke over 1,600 APIs accurately. Want more TLDR? 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