Subj : OpenAI blocks China 🤖, Tesla's declining market share 📉, hacking airline WiFi ✈️ To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Wed Jul 10 2024 10:34 am --tWhCEfdZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chinese attempts to lure domestic developers from OpenAI will now be a lo= t easier as OpenAI has blocked users in China from accessing its services= =C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1] |Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR = TLDR 2024-07-10 =F0=9F=93=B1=20 BIG TECH & STARTUPS CHI= NESE DEVELOPERS SCRAMBLE AS OPENAI BLOCKS ACCESS IN CHINA (4 MINUTE READ)= [4]=20 Chinese attempts to lure domestic developers away from OpenAI w= ill now be a lot easier as OpenAI has blocked users in China from acces= sing its tools and services. The tool was already blocked through the gov= ernment's firewall, but developers were previously still able to use virt= ual private networks to access OpenAI's tools. OpenAI has not elaborated = on the reason for its sudden decision. The decision may result in an acce= leration of development by Chinese AI companies.=20 TESLA'S SHARE OF U.= S. ELECTRIC CAR MARKET FALLS BELOW 50% (8 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Tesla a= ccounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the = US in the second quarter of this year. The sales of battery-powered cars = have surged to a new record, climbing 11.5 percent from a year earlier, w= ith Tesla losing ground to General Motors, Ford Motor, Hyundai, and Kia. = This is the first time Tesla's market share has fallen below 50 percent i= n a quarter. There are now over 100 electric vehicle models available in = the US. Intense competition has led to lower prices, helping push adoptio= n slowly higher.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY= DOCTORS RESTORING BLOODFLOW IN LEGALLY DEAD BODIES TO RETRIEVE DONOR= ORGANS (3 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 A highly controversial procedure calle= d normothermic regional perfusion, which involves pumping blood through a= deceased person's body, can help doctors retrieve donor organs even if p= atients have already been declared dead. The procedure greatly increases = the chances of obtaining functional donor organs and could save a lot of= lives. It stops organs from being damaged by keeping up the circulatio= n of oxygen-rich blood. There are concerns that the procedure may be able= to restore limited brain activity, but there are ways to stop blood from= reaching the brain.=20 ROBOTAXIS SHOULD BE A WAKEUP CALL FOR CITIES (6= MINUTE READ) [7]=20 The biggest hurdles currently facing the robotaxi = industry are economic and regulatory, not technological. Robotaxi compani= es will need to be able to compete on price, convenience, and comfort bef= ore their vehicles become a more accepted travel option. If they are su= ccessful, there could be significant traffic and labor impacts. Robotaxis= will likely make roads safer and create demand for new types of building= s with no parking.=20 =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIE= NCE =F0=9F=A4=94 WHAT'S NEXT FOR BACKEND? EXPERTS FROM SUPABASE, SENT= RY, AND LARAVEL WEIGH IN (SPONSOR) [8]=20 Don't miss this upcoming li= ve stream with five leading backend experts - Paul Copplestone (Supabase = CEO/Founder), Taylor Otwell (Laravel CEO/Founder), Soren Schmidt (Prisma = CEO), and the Sentry team. On the agenda: the future of backend framework= s and databases, impact of APIs, role of AI, and more. Submit your questi= ons in advance! [8]=20 PYSKYWIFI: COMPLETELY FREE, UNBELIEVABLY STUPI= D WI-FI ON LONG-HAUL FLIGHTS (28 MINUTE READ) [9]=20 A developer disc= overed a way to access the internet for free while clicking through an ai= rline's Wi-Fi payment menu. This article discusses how they exploited thi= s discovery to develop a tool that allowed them to access the full intern= et for free, albeit at a very slow pace. The exploit involves editing dat= a on the developer's airmiles account to send and receive HTTP requests a= nd responses.=20 MAELSTROM (GITHUB REPO) [10]=20 Maelstrom is a sui= te of tools that can run tests in hermetic microcontainers locally or dis= tributed across arbitrarily large clusters. It currently has test runners= for Rust and Python, with more on the way. Maelstrom is reliable, easy t= o use, fast, and scalable. The project is currently Linux-only and relies= on namespaces to implement containers.=20 =F0=9F=8E=81=20 MISCELLA= NEOUS THE AI SUMMER (11 MINUTE READ) [11]=20 ChatGPT happened inc= redibly fast, reaching 100 million users in just 2 months. A lot of its g= rowth was due to the infrastructure built over the last few decades - use= rs could easily access the service on devices they already owned. Most of= the people who tried out ChatGPT when it was first released have not ret= urned. It's now easy for people to try out new products, which makes for = some interesting charts, but keeping these users is another story. AI may= be able to swallow most or all of existing software and automate new cla= sses of tasks, but not this year.=20 EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM IS STUMBLING.= CAN =E2=80=9CMORAL AMBITION=E2=80=9D REPLACE IT? (13 MINUTE READ) [12] = Moral Ambition is a new movement that aims to create a new standard= of success by shifting ambition away from money and toward finding sol= utions for the world's most pressing problems. It aims to restore faith i= n human agency and ingenuity. The blend of socially conscious activism an= d capitalist entrepreneurship encourages a willingness among young people= to use their talent and ambition for the common good instead of personal= profit and status. Unlike Effective Altruism, which is grounded in guilt= , Moral Ambition is built on enthusiasm, compassion, and problem-solving.= =20 =E2=9A=A1=20 QUICK LINKS HOW DEVELOPERS BUILD ENGAGING CHAT= EXPERIENCES, WITHOUT REINVENTING THE WHEEL (SPONSOR) [13]=20 Need to= launch custom messaging experiences fast? Try Stream's highly reliable c= hat infrastructure and feature-rich SDKs. Now with support for your favor= ite LLM APIs! 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Big Tech & Startups

Chinese developers scramble= as OpenAI blocks access in China (4 minute read)

Chinese attempts to lure domestic devel= opers away from OpenAI will now be a lot easier as OpenAI has blocked users= in China from accessing its tools and services. The tool was already block= ed through the government's firewall, but developers were previously still = able to use virtual private networks to access OpenAI's tools. OpenAI has n= ot elaborated on the reason for its sudden decision. The decision may resul= t in an acceleration of development by Chinese AI companies.
Tesla's Share of U.S. Elect= ric Car Market Falls Below 50% (8 minute read)

Tesla accounted for just under half of = all battery-powered vehicles sold in the US in the second quarter of this y= ear. The sales of battery-powered cars have surged to a new record, climbin= g 11.5 percent from a year earlier, with Tesla losing ground to General Mot= ors, Ford Motor, Hyundai, and Kia. This is the first time Tesla's market sh= are has fallen below 50 percent in a quarter. There are now over 100 electr= ic vehicle models available in the US. Intense competition has led to lower= prices, helping push adoption slowly higher.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

Doctors Restoring Bloodflow= in Legally Dead Bodies to Retrieve Donor Organs (3 minute read)

A highly controversial procedure called= normothermic regional perfusion, which involves pumping blood through a de= ceased person's body, can help doctors retrieve donor organs even if patien= ts have already been declared dead. The procedure greatly increases the cha= nces of obtaining functional donor organs and could save a lot of lives. It= stops organs from being damaged by keeping up the circulation of oxygen-ri= ch blood. There are concerns that the procedure may be able to restore limi= ted brain activity, but there are ways to stop blood from reaching the brai= n.
Robotaxis should be a wakeu= p call for cities (6 minute read)

The biggest hurdles currently facing th= e robotaxi industry are economic and regulatory, not technological. Robotax= i companies will need to be able to compete on price, convenience, and comf= ort before their vehicles become a more accepted travel option. If they are= successful, there could be significant traffic and labor impacts. Robotaxi= s will likely make roads safer and create demand for new types of buildings= with no parking.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

=F0=9F=A4=94 What's next fo= r backend? Experts from Supabase, Sentry, and Laravel weigh in (Sponsor)

Don't miss this upcoming live stream wi= th five leading backend experts - Paul Copplestone (Supabase CEO/Founder), = Taylor Otwell (Laravel CEO/Founder), Soren Schmidt (Prisma CEO), and the Se= ntry team. On the agenda: the future of backend frameworks and databases, i= mpact of APIs, role of AI, and more. Submit your questions in adv= ance!
PySkyWiFi: completely free,= unbelievably stupid Wi-Fi on long-haul flights (28 minute read)

A developer discovered a way to access = the internet for free while clicking through an airline's Wi-Fi payment men= u. This article discusses how they exploited this discovery to develop a to= ol that allowed them to access the full internet for free, albeit at a very= slow pace. The exploit involves editing data on the developer's airmiles a= ccount to send and receive HTTP requests and responses.
Maelstrom (GitHub Repo)

Maelstrom is a suite of tools that can = run tests in hermetic microcontainers locally or distributed across arbitra= rily large clusters. It currently has test runners for Rust and Python, wit= h more on the way. Maelstrom is reliable, easy to use, fast, and scalable. = The project is currently Linux-only and relies on namespaces to implement c= ontainers.
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Miscellaneous

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The AI summer (11 minute re= ad)

ChatGPT happened incredibly fast, reach= ing 100 million users in just 2 months. A lot of its growth was due to the = infrastructure built over the last few decades - users could easily access = the service on devices they already owned. Most of the people who tried out= ChatGPT when it was first released have not returned. It's now easy for pe= ople to try out new products, which makes for some interesting charts, but = keeping these users is another story. AI may be able to swallow most or all= of existing software and automate new classes of tasks, but not this year.
Effective altruism is stumb= ling. Can =E2=80=9Cmoral ambition=E2=80=9D replace it? (13 minute read)

Moral Ambition is a new movement that a= ims to create a new standard of success by shifting ambition away from mone= y and toward finding solutions for the world's most pressing problems. It a= ims to restore faith in human agency and ingenuity. The blend of socially c= onscious activism and capitalist entrepreneurship encourages a willingness = among young people to use their talent and ambition for the common good ins= tead of personal profit and status. Unlike Effective Altruism, which is gro= unded in guilt, Moral Ambition is built on enthusiasm, compassion, and prob= lem-solving.
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Quick Links

How developers build engagi= ng chat experiences, without reinventing the wheel (Sponsor)

Need to launch custom messaging experie= nces fast? Try Stream's highly reliable chat infrastructure and feature-ric= h SDKs. Now with support for your favorite LLM APIs! Add Stream to your app, free
a16z is trying to keep AI a= live with Oxygen initiative (1 minute read)

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has secured= thousands of AI chips to exchange for equity.
Google Chrome gives all *.g= oogle.com sites full access to system/tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory = usage (2 minute read)

While Google is likely not using the AP= I for anything malicious, it provides them more information than their comp= etitors, which may be a violation of the EU's Digital Markets Act.
The developers suing over G= itHub Copilot got dealt a major blow in court (2 minute read)

A judge has tossed out 20 of the 22 cla= ims made against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit filed= in 2022, saying that Copilot's suggested code isn't close enough to origin= al sources.
Tesla insiders say Elon opt= imized Full Self-Driving routes for himself and influencers (4 minute read)=

Reports from current and former Tesla w= orkers say that the company has been optimizing its self-driving neural net= s specifically for routes taken by CEO Elon Musk and Tesla influencers prod= ucing Full Self-Driving content.
Quora's Poe now lets users = create and share web apps (2 minute read)

Poe has launched a feature called Previ= ews that lets people create interactive apps directly in chats with chatbot= s.
Guide to attending a space = launch in person (32 minute read)

A good way to get a feel for what it's = like to attend a space launch in person is to watch someone vlog about thei= r experience.

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