Tesla robotaxi service 🚕, Apple's ChatGPT integration 🤖, Arm cancels Qualcomm's license 📝

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2024-10-24 A bold alternative to social media advertising (Sponsor) Social ads are great, but they don't grab attention like they used to. So, while everyone else is cranking up their bids and fighting for a brief appearance in a social feed, here's how you can grab the attention of 5+ million tech professionals: advertise in TLDR. We'll even write your copy for you. Learn more about running your first campaign with us. Limited to just 3 ads per newsletter. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year (2 minute read) Elon Musk revealed during Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday that the company has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area. Tesla employees have been able to summon an autonomously operated Tesla vehicle for trips using the company's prototype ride-hailing app for the past few months. The vehicles are operating using the latest version of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, which Musk claims will be 1,000 times better than human driving by the second quarter of 2025. Musk says that he expects to roll out a paid ridehailing service in California and Texas starting next year, pending regulatory approval. Apple's first iOS 18.2 beta adds more AI features and ChatGPT integration (1 minute read) Apple has released the first beta of iOS 18.2, which adds tools like the ability to generate emoji with Genmoji and images with Image Playground, more AI-powered writing features, integration with ChatGPT, Visual Intelligence for searching with the camera, and more. The first batch of Apple Intelligence features, including a slightly smarter Siri and notifications summary, is set to launch next week with the official release of iOS 18.1. The macOS Sequoia 15.2 developer beta, now available, has new Apple Intelligence tools, but doesn't include Genmoji. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches next New Shepard spacecraft from Texas without a crew (3 minute read) Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test for its next New Shepard on Wednesday morning. The spacecraft is designed for humans and has an expanded flight capacity to better meet growing customer demand. The launch carried 12 payloads, mostly for research purposes. A link to the webcast recording of the launch is available in the article. A new Blue Origin: CEO Dave Limp is bringing urgency and 'decisiveness' to Jeff Bezos' space company (10 minute read) While Blue Origin has not yet entered the serious rocketry game, the company is closer than ever to the long-awaited debut of its New Glenn rocket. The New Glenn launch vehicle will be able to lift up to 45,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit, double that of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. It is designed to be partly reusable. New Glenn's first launch attempt is slated for November. The company aims to land New Glenn on its very first launch. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science How to diagram your cloud architecture — advice from AWS solution architects (Sponsor) A good architecture diagram is worth a thousand docs. This best practices guide, co-authored by two AWS solution architects, covers: General principles of diagramming cloud resources Keeping cloud diagrams up-to-date Tips, hands-on tutorials, and examples Download from Datadog You Should Probably Pay Attention to Tokenizers (14 minute read) Tokenization is the process of breaking down a piece of text into smaller pieces called tokens. These tokens are then assigned an integer value for identification within the tokenizer vocabulary, a set of all possible tokens used in the tokenizer training. There are different types of tokenizers. It's a good idea to be aware of which one is used by the large language model you are trying to use. This article discusses the different types of tokenizers and how they can influence processing. Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance (22 minute read) This article discusses different strategies for incrementally adding Rust into a searcher written in another language. Developers may want to do this if they identify functions not meeting their performance requirements because they're being bottlenecked by the CPU and the usual techniques of memoizing the function or improving its algorithm aren't feasible or effective. Sometimes, it's worth investigating swapping out the function implementation for something written in a more CPU-efficient language - like Rust. 🎁 Miscellaneous Arm cancels Qualcomm's architecture license, endangering its chip business (2 minute read) Arm has canceled Qualcomm's license for making Arm chips as part of an escalation of a fight that began in late 2022 when Arm sued Qualcomm over its acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. Qualcomm has 60 days before it will be forced to stop manufacturing and selling its Arm chips. It bought Nuvia to assist with developing high-performance Arm chips, but Arm claimed the acquisition caused Nuvia to breach its Arm licenses. Arm demanded that Qualcomm and Nuvia destroy any designs that Nuvia had created pre-acquisition, but the companies didn't comply. Qualcomm's shift to using Nuvia's designs means that Arm could make less money from the partnership than it used to. Former OpenAI Staffer Says the Company Is Breaking Copyright Law and Destroying the Internet (2 minute read) Suchir Balaji, a former researcher at OpenAI, recently wrote in his personal blog that he believes the company is not complying with US copyright law, adding to the growing number of voices that say the company's giant data scraping business is based on shaky legal ground. Balaji worked at OpenAI for four years before leaving this summer. He says that AI companies are destroying the commercial viability of the individuals, businesses, and internet services that created the digital data used to train AI systems. OpenAI claims it builds its AI models using publicly available data in a legal and fair way. The company is currently dealing with multiple lawsuits for its use of copyright material. ⚡ Quick Links Are pre-built houses the future of affordable housing? BOXABL is betting on it (Sponsor) This company has 82+ patent filings, 3 factory buildings and has built 600+ houses. They are mass produced in a factory on an assembly line and can be installed in a day. The company thinks automation and assembly line can lead to lower cost housing. Discover how you can invest PLEASE READ THE OFFERING CIRCULAR BEFORE MAKING ANY INVESTMENT. https://boxabl.com/invest#circular RISC-V in 2024 is Slower Than You Think (4 minute read) While RISC-V has the potential to reshape the CPU landscape, it is currently slow even compared to Raspberry PI boards. Tesla is in talks for a Robotaxi test program in Palo Alto, but the scale is underwhelming (2 minute read) Tesla's Robotaxi could be used in the Palo Alto Link rideshare program, which only has 3.1 users per hour of service. It's not just you: Amazon's shopping app is trying a different look (2 minute read) The redesign features bigger and brighter graphics, more dynamic product curations and groupings, and an increased emphasis on horizontal scrolling. Apple analyst Kuo says company cut iPhone 16 orders by 10 million units (2 minute read) Most of the cuts affect the regular iPhone 16 - iPhone 16 production for 2H24 is now estimated to be 84 million units. I got dysentery so you don't have to (31 minute read) 'Human challenge trials', clinical trials where humans are given a disease, are very rare, but often more valuable for research - it would be very difficult to test an alternative dysentery treatment in the US in the conventional way. Stablecoins | The Monetary Upgrade (14 minute read) Stablecoins have emerged as a bridge between the traditional financial system and blockchain technology. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/c4b06755/ Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. 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