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Big Tech & Startups

Sam Altman returns to OpenAI; board members ousted (2 minute read)

Sam Altman is returning to OpenAI as CEO. There will be a new initial board with Bret Taylor as Chair. The other members will be Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo.

Binance CEO steps down; crypto platform hit with record $4.3 billion in damages (5 minute read)

Changpeng Zhao will step down as the CEO of Binance after the company pleaded guilty to violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and other charges. Binance will pay more than $4.3 billion to settle the charges. Zhao also agreed to a $50 million fine as part of the settlement. Richard Teng, Binance's head of regional markets, will take over as CEO. Zhao will remain as a shareholder. There were no allegations related to the misuse of customer funds or market manipulation.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Solar-powered Japanese tiny van ‘PUZZLE’ unveiled ahead of North American sales (6 minute read)

HW ELECTRO is a Japanese automaker that plans to bring kei cars to the US. Kei cars are pint-sized vehicles designed to fit into a local regulatory window that allows for much smaller and lighter cars and trucks to operate legally on roads. The PUZZLE is an electric van built on Japan's tiny car legacy. HW ELECTRO plans to start selling the PUZZLE in 2025. Pictures of the vehicle are available in the article.

In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge (9 minute read)

Breaking down foods requires coordination across dozens of cell types and many tissues. The gut has its own network of nerve cells that can function nearly independently from the brain. Just like the brain, it is made up of two types of nervous system cells, neurons and glia. A new study has identified a new subset of glial cells that senses food as it moves through the digestive tract and signals the gut to contract and move it along its way.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid (18 minute read)

CSS Grid gives developers access to a ton of tools for developing sophisticated and fluid layouts. It is surprisingly complex and may take some time for developers to truly feel comfortable with. This tutorial shares the biggest lightbulb moments one developer experienced when learning CSS Grid. It covers the fundamentals of the layout mode and shows readers how to do some pretty cool stuff with it.

The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices (19 minute read)

This article looks at how practices that were considered cutting-edge on the back end have changed and where the field is headed to in the future. It was written by an industry veteran who has done it all and is still active in the game. The article covers what it was like to be an early Amazon employee back in 1997 and the changes that they have seen since then.

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Miscellaneous

Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding (8 minute read)

Sam Altman and OpenAI's board of directors have been bickering for more than a year, with the tension getting worse once OpenAI became a mainstream name. His firing was the result of a long-simmering boardroom tension. The situation highlights the rift between business people who want to make money from AI technology and the researchers who worry that what they are building could eliminate jobs or become a threat to humanity. This article looks at Altman's firing and the conflicts within OpenAI over the years.

The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world (3 minute read)

The recent events at OpenAI are the most dramatic manifestation of a wide divide in Silicon Valley. Doomers believe that AI poses an existential risk to humanity and thus advocate for stricter regulations. Boomers stress the potential of AI to turbocharge progress and want looser regulations. This article discusses the split in views between the two groups and how this rift may affect the future of AI.

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Quick Links

Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription (6 minute read)

Google leaders proposed a subscription-based private Search service in 2018.

Introducing Stable Video Diffusion (3 minute read)

Stable Video Diffusion is a foundation model for generative video based on Stable Diffusion.

For Good First Issue: Introducing a new way to contribute (5 minute read)

For Good First Issue is a curated list of open source projects recognized as digital public goods that need help.

How I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla (35 minute read)

Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git as supporting both platforms placed a significant burden on a team that was already stretched thin in parts.

Nvidia’s revenue triples as AI chip boom continues (5 minute read)

This article looks at Nvidia's performance over the last quarter and its plans for the future.

IMF says central bank digital currencies can replace cash: ‘This is not the time to turn back’ (3 minute read)

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund said that central bank digital currencies have the potential to replace cash, offer resilience in more advanced economies, and improve financial inclusion where few hold bank accounts.

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Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI 🤖, Binance CEO resigns 🪙, origins of modern backend dev 👨‍💻

TLDR 2023-11-22

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