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Time commitment is 5-10 hours/week (Sunday through Thursday), to apply please send your LinkedIn or resume to jobs@tldr.tech along with a couple sentences on why you'd be a good fit! 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple Vision Pro Developer Tools Now Available With New visionOS SDK (1 minute read) Apple's visionOS software development kit (SDK) is now available via Xcode 15 beta 2. The SDK enables developers to create spatial computing apps that blend digital content with the real world. Apple will open developer labs in Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo next month to provide developers with hands-on experience on Vision Pro hardware. Developers will be able to apply for access to the visionOS SDK starting next month. Dropbox’s AI tools can help you find your stuff — from everywhere on the internet (6 minute read) Dropbox is launching two AI-powered services on its platform. One is a tool for summarizing and querying documents and the other is a universal search engine that can access personal Dropbox files and also the entire web. The search engine, Dash, will come as a desktop app and browser extension. Dash's browser extension uses Stacks to organize files. Dropbox AI is now available to all Pro customers and a few teams. There is a waitlist to get into the Dash beta. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology We've officially entered a new era of cultivated meat production (4 minute read) Upside Foods and Good Meat have received approval from US regulators to sell their cultivated chicken products within the US. The companies sell protein made from animal cells developed using a fermentation process involving bioreactors. Both companies will initially serve their food in restaurants. Cultivating meat is an expensive and time-consuming process, but some venture capitalists investing in the space remain confident. How scientists are hacking the genetic code to give proteins new powers (17 minute read) This article looks at the current state of genetic research, the potential applications of the technology, and developing technologies. Scientists have encoded more than 200 non-standard amino acids into proteins and hacked the genetic codes of nematode worms, fruit flies, plants, and mice. Protein synthesis technology can be used to encode new amino acids to create new therapeutics. New bases and codons can be used to replace redundant genetic code, effectively rendering cells immune to foreign DNA. Further development in this field could result in the creation of synthetic protein-like polymers. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode (7 minute read) Figma's new Dev Mode is a workspace in Figma designed to get developers what they need when they need it. It allows developers to find and export all the information they need by hovering and clicking around the Figma canvas. Dev Mode connects tools and code components to the design file so that developers don't have to jump between design libraries, the codebase, and other project management tools. More details about Figma's new Dev Mode are available in the article. AI Getting Started (GitHub Repo) This repository contains a getting-started stack for AI in JavaScript. It includes image and text models, vector stores, auth, and deployment configs. A live demo is available. 🔗 Merge: Unified API for HR, ATS, Accounting, Ticketing, CRM, File Storage and Marketing Automation Integrations (Sponsor) Merge is your integration toolbox. Integrate quickly with drop-in frontend components, backend SDKs, sandbox accounts, and a whole lot more. 💬 Lisa Wallace, Co-Founder at Assemble: “Merge allows us to be ambitious with our integration strategy — without needing to staff full-time integrations specialists.” 🧰 Integrate just once with Merge's Unified API to access hundreds of integrations. Start for free 🎁 Miscellaneous The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google (12 minute read) This article tells the story of how Waze was acquired by Google for $1.15 billion. It covers how Waze established a valuation framework, how they conducted strategic partner negotiations, how they handled an offer from Facebook, and lessons learned from the experience. Everything around acquisitions is personal, so it is important to clarify who the decision-makers are and spend time building relationships. Founders should be wary of feedback from investors as the acquisition will cause them to have diverging interests. The New New Moats (31 minute read) Building a sustainable and profitable business requires strong defensive moats. We are now undergoing a large platform shift as applications start being fueled by AI and data. This is making some existing moats useless and it makes it seem like it's almost impossible to build a defensible business. This article looks at what the new moats are in the world of AI to help readers stay grounded as they navigate the current AI hype cycle. ⚡ Quick Links Apple reportedly has fitness features for the Vision Pro we haven't seen yet (3 minute read) Apple is working on fitness apps for the Vision Pro, but it is hesitant to reveal the tech due to the device's external battery pack, risks of the front screen breaking if it hits furniture or a wall, and other limitations. Version Skew (7 minute read) Version skew is when two or more distributed systems with a shared dependency get deployed, and because their mutual deployment isn't atomic, they temporarily operate at different versions. Yes, Secret Invasion's opening credits scene is AI-made. Here's why (3 minute read) Secret Invasion, a new Marvel Cinematic Universe show on Disney Plus, used AI to help portray the concept of shape-shifting in its opening credits. vLLM (GitHub Repo) vLLM is a library for LLM inference and serving with seamless integration with popular HuggingFace models, streaming outputs, and support for various decoding algorithms. What we're learning from the Reddit blackout (10 minute read) Some subreddits have classified themselves as not safe for work to protest Reddit's treatment of moderators, preventing Reddit from running ads on them and restricting them from being viewed by people who have not signed in. Unexpected description of GPT4 architecture from geohotz in a recent interview he gave (1 minute read) George Hotz says GPT-4 is an eight-way mixture model with 220 billion parameters in each head. 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. Set your preferred compensation, seniority/title/role, specific companies (or types of companies) you’d like to work for and more. Click here to apply. 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! 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