Monday Byte [10]

Monday Byte: 8 Bits of information to kick start your week

AI Generated: A law-maker robot in a courthouse

Hi there! 👋

On this edition:

1. From hardware to software: AWS re:Invent was fully focused on AI 🤖

   1. AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more (Tech Crunch)

      1. Private AI models, image generation and Amazon Q (AWS’ very own chatbot) took the stage on the line of software.

      2. When it comes to hardware, a lightweight computer to access VMs, palm scanning as ID method and proprietary chips for AI training and modeling were the key topics of the conference ✋

2. The Cybertruck is finally out 🛻

   1. Recap: Tesla delivered its first Cybertrucks to waiting customers in a milestone moment for Elon Musk (Business Insider)

      1. The people that placed their orders back in 2019 will finally receive their futuristic vehicles.

      2. With prices reaching up to $99,990, three versions including a “Cyberbeast“ and actually hardened windows, Musk’s new vehicle is finally on the streets 💰

3. ChatGPT actually wrote a law in Brazil 🇧🇷

   1. Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT (AP)

      1. A councilman in Porto Alegre asked ChatGPT to create a law proposal, the AI processed his prompt and returned an ordinance within seconds. This output was copy-pasted, sent to the rest of the council and approved as-is. [Talk about efficiency!] 🤯

4. Sam Altman offers his support to an startup that makes AI chips Saudi money enters the game, and the US Government did not like it 😠🇺🇸

   1. US compels Saudi fund to exit Altman-backed AI chip startup (Reuters)

      1. The startup Rain AI received $25 million in funding from a subsidiary of Aramco, but the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) ordered for this money to be sent back to the Middle East.

      2. One thing to keep in mind is that back in August 2023, the US started a block on the exports of AMD and Nvidia chips developed for AI to the Middle East ❌

5. Time to update Google Chrome in all of your devices 👾

   1. Google Fixes a Seventh Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome—Update Now (Wired)

      1. In order to tackle an exploit that may be seen as spyware related, Google is releasing security patches for the CVE-2023-6345, which points to an integer overflow in the 2D graphics library Skia 🕵️‍♂️

6. 365 days of a wild ride on AI 🎢

   1. ChatGPT is one year old. Here’s how it changed the tech world (Ars Technica)

      1. OpenAI gave LLMs an easy to use UI and public access one year ago. During this time, hundreds of startups have appeared in the market, many others have become obsolete, and the integration of AI in the daily life is more and more tangible 🎂

7. Amazon partners with Space X, stepping over its own space company, Blue Origin 🚀

   1. Amazon taps SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to help launch Kuiper satellites (Reuters)

      1. With the goal of deploying over 3 thousand satellites over the planet’s atmosphere, Amazon’s move attempts to build a network that will compete with Space X’s Starlink

      2. Even though Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin, his company contracted the competitors to help them compete against themselves… Never say never. 🛰️

8. The European Space Agency discovered an amazing astronomical waltz 🪐

   1. Astronomers spot rare star system with six planets in geometric formation (Digital Trends)

      1. The balance of the orbits of this system is so unique that it does not have perturbations, allowing for a mesmerizing geometrical pattern 🤩

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