OpenAI's moonshot 🤖, Tesla's Model 3 redesign 🚗, React Server Components in practice 👨‍💻

Sign Up|Hire|Advertise|View Online TLDR TLDR 2023-09-01 📱 Big Tech & Startups Tesla Model 3 Highland officially unveiled with new design and more features (8 minute read) Tesla has officially unveiled its Model 3 refresh. Updates include a 'facelifted' front-end design, more screen space, and increased range. The company claims that more than half the parts of the vehicle were replaced. It appears that the photo of the new vehicle leaked in April was real. The refreshed Model 3 is now available for order on Tesla's European sites. More details about what was updated are available in the article. OpenAI’s Moonshot: Solving the AI Alignment Problem (12 minute read) OpenAI is dedicating 20% of its computing power to solve the AI alignment problem by 2027. The AI alignment problem is the idea that AI systems might not have goals that align with those of humans. This may become a significant issue in the future if superintelligent AI systems are developed. This article features an interview with Jan Leike, OpenAI's head of alignment research, where they talk about solving the AI alignment problem and OpenAI's subgoal of building an aligned AI research tool to help solve the alignment problem. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Can Samsung Food usher in a new era for the smart kitchen? (5 minute read) Samsung Food is a culmination of everything that Samsung has been working towards since it released a smart fridge with an Android tablet in 2016. The software can scan food, offer up tailored recipes, and sync kitchen appliances together to create meals. It uses generative AI to create meal plans and build grocery lists. Samsung is planning to create compatible cooktops, microwaves, refrigerators, water filters, and other cooking devices. Rare oxygen isotope detected at last — and it defies expectations (8 minute read) Oxygen-28 has been detected for the first time. While the isotope was predicted to be stable, it disintegrated rapidly after creation. Oxygen-28 is an isotope of oxygen with 12 extra neutrons in its nucleus. The new findings mean that physicists might have to update theories of how atomic nuclei are structured. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Scale automated QA without overspending (Sponsor) Most QA teams are too resource-constrained to maintain an automated end-to-end test suite for their entire product. But costs to scale QA are hard to justify. The end result? Gaps in test coverage and bugs shipped to production. Here's a cost-effective solution. QA Wolf is a new technology-enabled service that gets you to 80% automated test coverage in just 4 months. Plus, they include 24-hour maintenance, a zero flake guarantee, and unlimited parallel runs on their Kubernetes infrastructure. Find out how QA Wolf works 🐺 Croner (GitHub Repo) Croner is Cron for JavaScript and TypeScript. It can trigger functions in JavaScript using Cron syntax, evaluate Cron expressions and get a list of upcoming run times, target different time zones, and more. Croner doesn't require any dependencies. A live demo is available. Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server Components (20 minute read) React Server Components (RSCs) are React components that run on the server instead of the client. Frameworks that support RSCs allow developers to define where code runs. Server components are able to fetch data from directly within the component and stream that data to the client, making fetching data fast and simple. This article discusses how Mux moved over to using RSCs and covers why Server Components matter, what they're good and bad at, how to use them, how to incrementally adopt them, and the kind of advanced patterns to use to keep RSCs under control. 🎁 Miscellaneous USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (4 minute read) USENET is a set of text-only social discussion forums run on multiple servers around the world. It is older than the web. This article explains how to access USENET. There are many active free communities available on USENET that cover a huge range of niche topics. AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine (3 minute read) Anguilla is a tiny British island territory in the Caribbean. The country's top-level domain is '.ai'. This appears to be particularly attractive to tech companies. Experts estimate that the country may bring in up to $30 million in revenue this year from its domain. Registrars pay Anguilla $140 for a two-year domain registration, but prices are rising due to demand. ⚡ Quick Links The case for Nushell (17 minute read) Nushell is designed to be a typechecked language with IDE support and nice error messages. OpenAI angles to put ChatGPT in classrooms with special tutor prompts (4 minute read) ChatGPT could be used to help students translate languages clearly and correctly, as a grammar tutor, as an idea generator, and more. X (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment history (3 minute read) X is planning to collect users' biometric information, employment history, and educational history starting from September 29. Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago (4 minute read) The population of breeding individuals was reduced to just 1,280, implying that our ancestors lived in a very localized area during that period. New Chrome feature makes it easier to grab full-resolution frames from videos (3 minute read) 'Copy Video Frames' allows users to capture high-quality, non-overlayed frames from source videos. OpenAI Rages at Report That Google's New AI Crushes GPT-4 (3 minute read) The report basically said that Google's products will completely surpass OpenAI's by the end of the year. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters for founders, AI, information security, design, marketing, crypto, and web dev! We help cutting edge companies hire world class technical talent through our job listings. If you're hiring software engineers, AI/ML engineers, product managers, designers or other tech talent, click here to learn more. 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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