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ELON MUSK-LED GROUP MAKES $97.4 BILLION BID FOR CONTROL OF OPENAI (4
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A group of investors led by Elon Musk offered $97.4 billion to buy
the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, but the offer was quickly
rejected. OpenAI's structure ensures that no individual can take
control of the company. Sam Altman and Musk co-founded OpenAI as a
charity in 2015. Musk left the company in 2019 and has since filed a
series of legal complaints against OpenAI accusing the company of
betraying its original nonprofit mission by creating a for-profit arm
and colluding with Microsoft to dominate the development of AI.
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T-Mobile's Starlink-powered direct-to-cell satellite messaging
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AT&T customers can also try the service for free. T-Mobile customers
will pay $15 per month after the free testing period ($10 for
customers who participated in the beta trial) while other customers
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Anello Photonics and OSCP showcased their gyroscope-based navigation
systems at CES earlier this year. Anello's devices, which can fit in
the palm of a person's hand, deliver high precision for multiple
applications. OSCP's multi-gyroscope inertial measurement units
provide location accuracy to within centimeters. These systems are
designed to work alongside GPS as a fallback in case GPS interference
is detected.
CHINESE SCIENTISTS CREATED MICE WITH 2 DADS Ä AND THEY SURVIVED TO
ADULTHOOD (5 MINUTE READ) [13]
Scientists in China have unveiled a new method for breeding mice with
two male parents - the resulting babies can survive to adulthood. It
is not the first time scientists have bred mice with two dads, but
previous attempts did not result in mice that could live to adulthood.
The resulting mice had deficits, including shorter lifespans and
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Realtime features share changes triggered by one user to other users
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THE ANTHROPIC ECONOMIC INDEX (9 MINUTE READ) [17]
The Anthropic Economic Index is an initiative aimed at understanding
AI's effects on labor markets and the economy over time. The Index's
reports provide data and analysis based on millions of anonymized
conversations on Claude.ai. It paints a clear picture of how AI is
being incorporated into real-world tasks across the modern economy.
Usage is concentrated on software development and technical tasks. AI
use leans towards augmentation - its use is more prevalent for tasks
associated with mid-to-high wage occupations but lower for both the
lowest- and highest-paid roles.
THREE OBSERVATIONS (6 MINUTE READ) [18]
The intelligence of an AI model increases with the resources used to
train and run it - it appears that it is possible to spend arbitrary
amounts of money and get continuous and predictable gains. The cost to
use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months. The
socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is
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OPENAI'S SECRET WEAPON AGAINST NVIDIA DEPENDENCE TAKES SHAPE (2
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OpenAI plans to send its chip designs to TSMC for fabrication within
the next few months.
RETHINKING FOUNDING ENGINEER EQUITY (6 MINUTE READ) [20]
Founding engineers do similar work to founders and take on a similar
risk (albeit a bit less), but their compensation is a lot less than
other founders.
REASONING MODELS ARE JUST LLMS (2 MINUTE READ) [21]
Reasoning models show how large language models are not a dead end.
META TO START LAYING OFF 3,000 EMPLOYEES TODAY AS COMPANY SHIFTS
FOCUS TO AI HIRING (2 MINUTE READ) [22]
The layoffs will affect employees across multiple countries -
employees will receive their notifications between February 11 and
February 18.
WHAT HAPPENS TO SAAS IN A WORLD WITH COMPUTER USING AGENTS? (8 MINUTE
READ) [23]
Many of the elements that once differentiated SaaS products will lose
their importance in an agent-driven future.
REVENGE OF THE GPT WRAPPERS: DEFENSIBILITY IN A WORLD OF COMMODITIZED
AI MODELS (12 MINUTE READ) [24]
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