• OpenAI eyes $100B+ valuation ¨, SpaceX preps Starship catch ¨, inside OpenSea's fall ¨,

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    OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise funds at a valuation of more
    than =
    $100B, substantially higher than the company's previous $86B
    valuation.=
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    AI PHON=
    E CALLS ARE GETTING RIDICULOUSLY GOOD (SPONSOR) [4]=20

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    BIG TECH & START=
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    SUNK COST (32 MINUTE READ) [6]=20

    NFTs haven't recovered desp=
    ite crypto values rising. While they're
    hanging on, the technology is in =
    troubled waters. OpenSea, once the
    largest marketplace for NFTs, is facin=
    g pending litigation from the
    SEC, a previous unreported 'matter' with th=
    e FTC, inbounds from US and
    international tax authorities, heightened com=
    petition, accusations of
    gender discrimination, and employee attrition. T=
    his article tells the
    story of the marketplace's rise and fall.=20

    OP=
    ENAI REPORTEDLY IN TALKS TO CLOSE A NEW FUNDING ROUND AT $100B+
    VALUATION=
    (2 MINUTE READ) [7]=20

    OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise funds at=
    a valuation of more
    than $100 billion, substantially higher than the com=
    pany's previous
    $86 billion valuation. Investors include Thrive Capital a=
    nd Microsoft.
    The financing will be OpenAI's biggest outside infusion of =
    capital
    since Microsoft invested nearly $10 billion in January last year.=

    While OpenAI's revenue eclipsed $3.4 billion early this year, the
    comp=
    any is on track to lose nearly $5 billion by year end. It has
    already bur=
    ned through $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing.=20

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    SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

    SPARKS ARE FLYING DAY AND NIGHT=
    AS SPACEX PREPS STARSHIP PAD TO CATCH
    A ROCKET (8 MINUTE READ) [8]=20
    =

    Workers have been making last-minute upgrades to SpaceX's Starship
    la=
    unch pad in South Texas pretty much every day for the last couple of
    week=
    s. If all goes well on the Starship's next test flight, the launch
    pad's =
    mechanical arms will close together to capture the Super Heavy
    booster as=
    it descends back to Earth. SpaceX announced that Starship
    and Super Heav=
    y were ready to fly, pending regulatory approval, on
    August 8. The FAA is=
    still evaluating SpaceX's proposed flight
    profile. It is unclear how lon=
    g approval will take, but the state of
    the launch pad suggests that the n=
    ext test is still at least a couple
    of weeks away.=20

    AI INFERENCE CO=
    MPETITION HEATS UP (6 MINUTE READ) [9]=20

    The competition for AI infere=
    nce is heating up, particularly in terms
    of power efficiency. ML Commons =
    has released the results of its latest
    AI inferencing competition. The ro=
    und included first-time submissions
    from teams using AMD Instinct acceler=
    ators, the latest Google Trillium
    accelerators, chips from Untether AI, a=
    nd Nvidia's new Blackwell chip.
    This article looks at the results - while=
    Nvidia's chips are still
    ahead in many categories, chips from other manu=
    facturers are starting
    to catch up.=20

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    PROGRAMMING,=
    DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

    3 TIPS ON DEVELOPER MESSAGING FROM A DEVELOPER=
    -TURNED-MEDIA-COMPANY
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    messaging a developer-focused audience from building ScraperAPI and
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    PROGRAMMING WITH CHATGPT (4 MINUTE READ) [=
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    Using ChatGPT to code can be a real productivity boost. Instead =
    of
    reading examples on Stack Overflow and adapting them to their
    partic=
    ular case, developers can instantly get code tailored to their
    specific n=
    eeds. It can make developers more efficient, but they need
    to remember th=
    at it is still a tool. It is important to always test
    the code it provide=
    s to quickly discover any hallucinations.=20

    STATE AND TIME ARE THE SAM=
    E THING (5 MINUTE READ) [13]=20

    State is time and time is state. The on=
    ly way to see the passage of
    time is by measuring changes in observable s=
    tate. Changes in state
    matter in that they create new times. If a state u=
    pdate is purely
    internal and cannot affect the observable state, then it =
    doesn't
    advance time. This model can be used to reason about abstract sys=
    tems.


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    MISCELLANEOUS

    NVIDIA REVENUE JUMPS 1=
    22% IN POSITIVE SIGN FOR TECH'S A.I. BOOM (4
    MINUTE READ) [14]=20

    Nvi=
    dia recently reported that its sales and profits had more than
    doubled du=
    ring the last quarter. The company also projected that sales
    in the curre=
    nt quarter will increase by 80% compared to a year ago,
    exceeding earlier=
    estimates. Nvidia's revenue was $30.04 billion last
    quarter, and its net=
    income rose to $16.95 billion. It will spend $50
    billion on repurchasing=
    its own shares. Nvidia now supplies more than
    90% of the chips essential=
    to building AI, but competition is on the
    rise, with other companies dev=
    eloping custom chips to lessen their
    dependence on Nvidia.=20

    TELEGRA=
    M CEO CHARGED WITH NUMEROUS CRIMES AND IS BANNED FROM LEAVING
    FRANCE (3 M=
    INUTE READ) [15]=20

    Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been indicted in Franc=
    e on charges
    including web-mastering an online platform in order to enabl=
    e an
    illegal transaction in an organized group, complicity in drug
    traf=
    ficking, distribution of child pornography, and providing
    cryptology serv=
    ices without making required declarations to government
    officials. Telegr=
    am has released a statement saying that it follows
    the law and industry s=
    tandards on moderation and that it was absurd to
    claim that a platform or=
    its owner is responsible for the abuse of
    that platform. Durov was order=
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