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ChatGPT's AI ‘memory' can remember the preferences of paying customers (3 minute read)

OpenAI's Memory feature, which allows ChatGPT to store queries, prompts, and other customizations, is now available to ChatGPT Plus paying subscribers outside of Europe and Korea. Memory lets users tell ChatGPT to remember certain details and allows the chatbot to learn from conversations. Users have control over what ChatGPT retains and what is used for additional training. ChatGPT will tell users when memories are updated. The feature will eventually roll out ChatGPT Enterprise and Teams, but OpenAI has not specified when.

Musk Wins China's Backing for Tesla's Driver-Assistance Service (6 minute read)

China's government has signaled its blessing for Tesla to roll out its advanced driver-assistance service in the country. Tesla will deploy its Full Self-Driving service based on mapping and navigation functions provided by Baidu. Being able to roll out FSD in China will help Tesla compete with major Chinese carmakers, some of which already provide higher-level driver-assistance features. Chinese officials have yet to respond to Elon Musk's request to transfer the data that Tesla cars collect in China to the US to further train the system.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

China ready to launch lunar far side sample return mission (4 minute read)

China's Chang'e-6 mission aims to land on the far side of the moon and collect up to 2,000 grams of lunar material to return to Earth. The mission will also include international scientific payloads from France, Sweden, Italy, and Pakistan. The launch time has yet to be disclosed, but navigation warnings indicate that the launch is expected early Friday. China plans to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030 and establish a permanent lunar base through the International Lunar Research Station program in the 2030s.

Atomic Nucleus Excited with Laser: A Breakthrough after Decades (7 minute read)

The long-sought thorium transition has been found. This discovery promises revolutionary technological applications and could answer the question of whether the constants of nature are actually constant or whether they change in space and time. It makes it possible to combine classical quantum physics and nuclear physics. The technology can be used for precision measurements. It could create new types of clocks that would be significantly more accurate than the best atomic clocks available today and devices that analyze the gravitational field around Earth to provide indications of mineral resources or earthquakes.

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GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment (6 minute read)

GitHub Copilot Workspace is a platform where any developer can go from idea to code to software in natural language. It allows developers to brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language and tweak different Copilot-powered agents. GitHub Copilot Workspace is designed to enhance developer creativity and materially lower the barrier to entry to building software. This article provides an introduction to the platform along with an overview of how to use it.

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gpt2-chatbot (11 minute read)

gpt2-chatbot recently appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, demonstrating greater compatibility than any previously known GPT-2 model. There is little information about the model listed on the site or elsewhere. This article explores the model and its capabilities. The model appears to be based on the GPT-4 architecture and consistently provides different outputs than models from other companies. It can be more performant than certain other models in specific domains. It is possible that this mystery model is in fact GPT-4.5.

Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart, and Python teams weeks before its developer conference (5 minute read)

Google has laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart, Python, and others ahead of its annual I/O developer conference in May. The company says that the layoffs aim to help it simplify its structures to give employees more opportunities to work on innovative and important advances while reducing bureaucracy and layers. Some employees were asked to onboard their off-shore replacements. Affected employees will be able to apply for other open roles at Google.

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The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself (11 minute read)

If a judge chooses to deny the Internet Archive's appeal, which is likely, the site may be faced with more lawsuits and forced to remove content of questionable copyright.

Inside the ‘cold war' at Techstars as CEO Mäelle Gavet hires, fires, fights to force change (24 minute read)

Techstars experienced two weeks of chaos after Silicon Valley Bank's collapse - SVB's parent company was a major investor in Techstars and Techstars had a sizable deposit in SVB.

Kaytu (GitHub Repo)

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A brief history of web development and why your framework doesn't matter (15 minute read)

As long as you're providing value to people and/or having fun doing it, it doesn't matter what technical choices you make - things will change, but programmers will still be around writing useful programs.

Meta and Reasonable Doubt (18 minute read)

Investors' reaction to Meta's recent earning call shows skepticism about the company's short to medium-term future - this article looks at the company's long-term prognosis.

Reconciling Effective Altruism and E/acc (19 minute read)

Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism mostly just disagree on the topic of AI safety - there is agreement on nearly everything else.

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China approves Tesla FSD 🚗, GitHub Copilot Workspace 👨‍💻, Mystery chatbot appears 🤖

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