Subj : Elon's OpenAI offer letter ¨, TikTok's app store return ¨, macOS Folder Actions ¨¨ To : All From : TLDR Date : Fri Feb 14 2025 11:39:45 --2poIy0vM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Elon Musk's offer to buy OpenAI has a clear deadline: May 10. 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Competi= ng social networks have been trying to bank on TikTok's uncertain future = by releasing rival features and apps.=20 ELON MUSK'S FULL OFFER LETTE= R TO BUY OPENAI REVEALS FIVE KEY DETAILS (3 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Elon = Musk's offer to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion has a clear deadline: May 10= .. There is a stipulation that the buyers are able to examine OpenAI's fin= ancial and business records and interview OpenAI staff before the all-cas= h transaction is finalized. The offer undermines Musk's legal claims that= OpenAI's startup's assets can't be transferred away for private gain. 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Elon Musk's full offer lett= er to buy OpenAI reveals five key details (3 minute read)

Elon Musk's offer to buy OpenAI for $97= ..4 billion has a clear deadline: May 10. There is a stipulation that the bu= yers are able to examine OpenAI's financial and business records and interv= iew OpenAI staff before the all-cash transaction is finalized. The offer un= dermines Musk's legal claims that OpenAI's startup's assets can't be transf= erred away for private gain. Musk will drop the bid to acquire OpenAI if th= e board commits to keeping it as a nonprofit.
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Brain implant that could bo= ost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial (3 minute read)

The UK's Advanced Research and Interven= tion Agency (Aria) is funding a trial to test a brain-computer interface th= at directly alters brain activity using ultrasound to boost mood. The techn= ology could revolutionize the treatment of conditions such as depression, a= ddiction, OCD, and epilepsy by rebalancing disrupted patterns of brain acti= vity. The device was developed by a US-based non-profit called Forest Neuro= tech. The trial will recruit patients who have had a part of their skull te= mporarily removed so that the device can be tested without having to perfor= m surgery. It will run for three and a half years starting in March, and if= successful, the device will move into full clinical trials.
Avride launches sidewalk de= livery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City (2 minute read)

Uber is expanding its partnership with = Avride to include autonomous deliveries in Jersey City. Customers in the ci= ty can now have their orders delivered by one of Avride's autonomous sidewa= lk delivery robots. Avride's first robotaxi deployment in the US will be in= Dallas this year. The startup has also partnered with Grubhub to bring del= ivery bots to university campuses across the US.
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AI-Designed Enzymes (7 minu= te read)

One of the ultimate aims of protein des= ign is to build entirely new enzymes from scratch. Scientists have traditio= nally discovered enzymes in nature and then adapted them through trial and = error. New advances in AI may eventually lead to ways to create bespoke enz= ymes from the ground up, but doing so remains a formidable challenge. Many = of the protein structural databases used to train models consist overwhelmi= ngly of structures gleaned from 'frozen' images, preventing them from makin= g accurate recreations of dynamic structures.
How I Automated My Computer= Routine With macOS Folder Actions (5 minute read)

It's possible to use macOS folder actio= ns to automate various tasks, including converting MOV to MP4 and images to= WEBP, downloading videos from YouTube, and more. This article explains how= to set these automations up. macOS folder actions turn folders into an int= erface for any CLI app, making the desktop even more useful than ever.
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Arm is launching its own ch= ip this year with Meta as a customer (1 minute read)

Arm has signed Meta as a customer and w= ill start making chips this year. The first in-house Arm chip will be unvei= led as early as this summer. The semiconductor company usually licenses its= chip blueprints, so making its own chips is a notable change in strategy. = This will turn some of Arm's existing customers into competitors.
My model of what is going o= n with LLMs (14 minute read)

People seem to be confused about what c= an be concluded about scaling large language models. At this point, it is n= ot plausible to precisely predict how far we are from unlocking all of the = remaining functions that large language models are capable of. We don't eve= n know all of the component functions of human intelligence - every time we= solve something previously out of reach, it turns out that human-level gen= erality is even further out of reach. The invention of human-level artifici= al general intelligence will disrupt history, but that point is still prett= y far off.
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AI is Stifling Tech Adoptio= n (6 minute read)

The integration of AI has stifled the a= doption of new and potentially superior technologies due to training data c= utoffs and system prompt influence.
Open Source Software and Co= rporate Influence (34 minute read)

The large-scale engagement of corporati= ons in open source needs to be treated seriously because it has and will co= ntinue to have negative consequences even if every individual involved is p= articipating in good faith.
Meta CTO says staff should = quit if they don't like Meta's new policies (1 minute read)

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said employees= were free to quit if they think that it's okay to leak to the media becaus= e of policy disagreements.
Mysterious new Vision Pro r= etail app appears in the App Store (2 minute read)

Apple may soon allow third-party retail= ers to sell its Vision Pro headset.
AI or Die (7 minute read)

It may be possible to have 'a country o= f geniuses' within a data center by as early as 2026 - companies will need = to be prepared for this future.
How I built an AI company t= o save my open source project (23 minute read)

This post tells the story of how a doom= ed open-source project was turned into a fast-growing AI company.

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