smmry Newsletter

The fourth generation of AirPods is set to begin production in May. They will likely be released in September or October. The upcoming AirPods are expected to feature a new design with better fit, improved sound quality, and an updated charging case with a USB-C port.

Apple is reportedly actively negotiating with Google to bring Gemini's generative AI technology to iOS. The company is aiming to release AI features to customers later this year.

Nvidia announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models during its developer's conference on Monday. The new Blackwell AI graphics processors are expected to ship later this year.

Apple is being sued by the US for employing a strategy that relies on exclusionary anticompetitive conduct that hurts both consumers and developers.

Applied Intuition, a leader in autonomous vehicle software, raised $250 million in Series E funding. This values the company at $6 billion, a 67% increase from its previous valuation.

Neuralink has shared a video of its brain-computer interface in action inside a human patient. The patient, a 29-year-old man named Nolan Arbaugh who is paralyzed from the neck down, is able to control a cursor on a screen using Neuralink's device.

Toyota's Woven City project, located close to the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, will complete Phase 1 of its development by the end of the year and start trials in 2025. The city will be used to pilot experiments and innovations in personal mobility, automated driving, robots, and artificial intelligence.

SpaceX aims to launch the next Starship as soon as early May. A targeted May timeline would give the company just two months between launch attempts.

xAI has released the weights and architecture of its 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1.

Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku is its fastest and most cost-effective AI model. It features advanced vision capabilities and excels in benchmarks. Claude 3 Haiku is designed for enterprises, with a focus on speed and affordability.

Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to run a new consumer AI unit called Microsoft AI. Suleyman is one of Google DeepMind's cofounders and chief executive of AI startup Inflection. Microsoft AI will combine consumer-facing products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge into one team.

OpenAI is expected to release a major AI model, possibly GPT-5, sometime in mid-2024, likely during the summer. The new model will likely be a multimodel large language model with similar capabilities to GPT-4, but better.

Stability AI's research scientist Robin Rombach, crucial to developing the Stable Diffusion model, is leaving the company, marking a significant departure amidst a year of technical team changes.

All future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses starting with Redis 7.4. Redis will no longer be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution and will be instead dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License and Server Side Public License.

There have been a number of news stories about AI developers recently. While some developers are concerned that the technology may soon take over their jobs, these claims are likely just attempts at grabbing attention…

There will likely still be a market for software developers in the foreseeable future. However, the nature of work will change and the tools the industry uses may be very different from what it uses now.

This Hacker News thread compares GPT-4-Turbo, the default model in ChatGPT Plus, to Claude Opus, Anthropic's competing model.

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The US Department of Justice, 16 states, and the District of Columbia are suing Apple for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, which specifically regulates monopolies, making some things that are legal for regular companies to do illegal when monopolies do them.

Tesla and xAI are spending heavily on Nvidia’s artificial intelligence systems, even as Tesla aims to build a supercomputer to rival Nvidia systems.

Nvidia's Project GR00T aims to create a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots to enable robots to learn skills and solve various tasks on the fly.

Xishuangbanna, a tropical town in China near the border with Myanmar and Laos, has seen a surge in property sales despite a nationwide downturn in the real estate market due to livestreamers showing off the city's homes and the beauty of the landscape surrounding it.