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Big Tech & Startups

Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster (9 minute read)

OpenAI's chief technology officer Mira Murati questioned Sam Altman's management in front of the board last year before Altman was briefly ousted from the company. This move helped to propel the board's decision to force Altman out. Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, expressed similar concerns. Both executives said that Altman sometimes created a toxic work environment by freezing out executives who did not support his decisions. WilmerHale, the law firm investigating the incident, is expected to release a report in the coming days that could shed more light on the board's decision.

Apple Planning 20-Inch MacBook With Foldable Screen (1 minute read)

Apple is planning to release a 20.3-inch MacBook with a foldable screen in 2027, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. It will have a screen measuring about 20 inches diagonally when fully expanded. The laptop is Apple's only foldable product with a clear development schedule. A foldable iPhone or iPad is not likely to come any time soon.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

New Weight Loss Pill More Effective Than Ozempic, Tests Find (2 minute read)

Novo Nordisk's new obesity treatment drug, amycretin, helped patients lose 13% of their body weight in just 12 weeks. The drug may be more effective than semaglutide. Amycretin targets GLP-1 and another hormone called amylin, both of which are believed to be linked to hunger and satiety. The drug still needs to go through much larger trials that will likely drag on for years before it will be publicly available. The results of the initial trials sent Novo Nordisk's stock rising as much as 8.3%.

Engineer plans solar panel implant for human retina to retain eyesight (4 minute read)

Engineers from the University of New South Wales in Australia are working on a prototype solar panel implant for the retinas to restore sight. The implant converts light into electrical signals that can be directed to the optic nerve, enabling vision. Users may need to wear special glasses or goggles that amplify sunlight for the device to work. The device is still in a proof-of-concept stage - a lot more work still needs to be done before it is ready for human implantation.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Why Facebook doesn’t use Git (12 minute read)

Mercurial is a tool for creating and managing code changes used at Facebook. Facebook started out on Git, but it began hitting scaling limits in around 2012. Mercurial's developers were receptive to the idea of Facebook engineers contributing patches to scale it better while Git's developers were not. There were other alternatives, but all were quickly disqualified. Facebook adopted Mercurial not because it had better technology, but because the maintainers and codebase felt more open.

Grats (GitHub Repo)

Grats makes building GraphQL servers as simple as writing functions. It leverages existing type annotations to automatically extract an executable GraphQL scheme from generic TypeScript resolver code. Grats makes the TypeScript implementation into a source of truth so developers don't have to worry about validating whether their implementations match their schemas.

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Miscellaneous

OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend - an update (8 minute read)

The investigation into OpenAI's sudden ousting of Sam Altman is almost over, and it appears Altman won. A new board has apparently been chosen. Leaks about the case are likely moves from the anti-Altman faction to strike first before WilmerHale's report is released. This post makes predictions about the results of the investigation and who will be on the new OpenAI board.

US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (4 minute read)

The House Commerce Committee has voted to approve a bill that would force ByteDance to sell the company or lose access to the US market. The bill still has to pass in the House and Senate and be signed into law before it comes into effect. TikTok is urging its users to protest the bill. Lawmakers responded by noting that the app will only be banned if it doesn't sever its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.

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Rivian reveals three new, smaller electric SUVs: The R2, R3, and R3X (4 minute read)

This article contains pictures of and details about Rivian's three new vehicles.

Hugging Face is launching an open source robotics project led by former Tesla scientist (4 minute read)

Hugging Face is launching a new robotics project under former Tesla staff scientist Remi Cadene - the team is now hiring robotics engineers in Paris, France.

Turn any website into an app with Chrome 124 (1 minute read)

The Chrome Canary, an early version of Chrome 124, now allows websites to be installed on desktops as progressive web apps.

Flyde (GitHub Repo)

Flyde is a visual programming language that integrates with existing codebases, allowing developers to create and run visual programs.

Microsoft confirms March 21 event for new Surface hardware and Copilot AI (1 minute read)

Microsoft will reveal news about Copilot AI, Windows, and Surface hardware at its March 21 event.

Inflection AI's friendly chatbot tops 1 million daily users (4 minute read)

Inflection AI's Pi chatbot has an updated engine that is better than GPT-4 at things like math, college-level science, and coding while using only 40% of the training compute as the OpenAI model.

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Inside Sam Altman's firing 🤖 , foldable 20-inch MacBook 💻, why Meta doesn't use git 👨‍💻

TLDR 2024-03-08

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