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TESLA'S NEW ROADSTER TAKES FLIGHT AFTER NEARLY A DECADE OF DELAYS (4
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Tesla unveiled its second-generation Roadster sports car on Thursday
by having the vehicle launch itself up a curved ramp into a controlled
landing. It later leapt over five other Tesla vehicles while twisting
in the air. The car is scheduled to enter production in 2028. Tesla
has yet to release a price tag. The Roadster can go from a stop to 60
miles an hour in about one second, and it has a top speed of over 230
miles an hour.
META UNVEILS MUSE SPARK OPEN, THE NEW TOP US OPEN WEIGHTS MODEL —
AND IT RUNS ON TWO PAIRED MAC DESKTOPS (18 MINUTE READ) [6]
Muse Spark Open is an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model that
can run on relatively affordable consumer hardware. Meta's benchmark
tests used a pair of M5 Ultra Mac Studios with an unknown memory
configuration. The model uses a mixture-of-experts design and
activates 42 billion parameters for each token. It supports a context
of up to 1 million tokens and accepts text, images, video, and audio,
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researchers create the operations they need for going beyond classical computing. Creating high-quality, error-corrected magic states is
incredibly resource-heavy. This post details how Google Quantum AI
created a magic state cultivation protocol that achieved a 40-fold
reduction in errors. The breakthrough is a crucial step towards
scaling up quantum computing to practical use.
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of something being done correctly. Creating this data for training
robots is expensive, and companies need a lot of data to train
competent models. Large language models showed the benefits of scale
when training models. Researchers are now working hard to gather
enormous amounts of robot task training data in the hopes of seeing
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vendor products, and it helps build out more AI intra expertise
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needed. It's also a lot safer to expose internal data sources to
internal tools.
USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO REVERSE ENGINEER HARDWARE (10 MINUTE
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Developers are using Claude to debug hardware issues. AIs can read
thousands of lines of USB capture, notice sequence repeats with one
byte changing, make suggestions on what that byte means, and write the
tests to confirm its suggestions. A human is still required to decide
what to build and check that the fix runs on real hardware, but AI
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HOW CODEX HAPPENED (45 MINUTE READ) [11]
Codex started as a scrappy effort to build an AI software engineer.
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