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• Google's I/O 2024 recap is as tedious as the full event — The clear focus of I/O this year is AI, as the technology and how it integrates with Google products took up the entire 2-hours runtime of the keynote.
• We're 'at least a decade away' from solving AI, says NYU Professor Gary Marcus — Gary Marcus, New York University professor emeritus, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss artificial intelligence implications, the future of generative AI, investor decisions, and more.
• Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets — Details are slim, but an API is nigh.
• An Xbox VR headset is on the way, but it’s a ‘limited edition’ Meta Quest — Microsoft and Meta’s VR partnership expands to Xbox-branded headsets.
• Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in — Microsoft is calling its version Copilot+ PCs, which CEO Satya Nadella described as a "new class of Windows PCs."
• Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air — Microsoft is convinced its new Copilot Plus PCs will beat Apple’s M3 processor and spark a new generation of Windows laptops.
• New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC — Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
• Sam Altman on X — Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.
• OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can? — If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company, which is likely worth millions of dollars. One former employee, Daniel Kokotajlo, who posted that he quit OpenAI “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” has confirmed publicly that he had to surrender what would have likely turned out to be a huge sum of money in order to quit without signing the document.
• Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her — The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT.
• Hayden Field on X — Just received this statement from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the Scarlett Johansson voice controversy.
• OpenAI Pulls Johansson Soundalike Sky’s Voice From ChatGPT — Company said it was not trying to imitate Johansson’s voice

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• Gamer Radio Discord — Join Mike in the Gamer Radio Discord
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• Here’s why Samsung and Dell’s new monitors are so exciting for Mac user — We’re finally getting some competition in the 5K and 6K monitor space.
• When Will Apple Launch the Reality Pro Mixed-Reality Headset? Apple 2023 Devices — 2023 is set to be the year of Apple’s mixed-reality headset and not much else
• Amazon Layoffs to Hit Over 18,000 Workers — Cuts focused on the company’s corporate staff exceed earlier projection and represent about 5% of the company’s corporate workforce
• Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker — 36 tech companies w/ layoffs ∙ 18392 employees laid off in 2023
• Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2023 — This benchmark proved to be more representative of real-world performance than micro-benchmarks.
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• Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org — Plain text accounting means doing accounting with plain text data formats and scriptable software, in the style of Ledger, hledger, beancount, and co.
• Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files. — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
• Fava - web interface for Beancount — Fava is a web interface for the double-entry bookkeeping software Beancount with a focus on features and usability.
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Interesting! It looks like @jetbrains is already on the M1 train.
• Dell.com/linux — With Canonical and Red Hat certification, Dell validation, and factory install options, you can be assured that your system just works.
• Dell XPS 13 Laptop As Built for the Show — + “Tiger Lake” 11th-gen CPU up to 4.2 GHz + Ubuntu Linux 20.04 + Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (more on this) + 16GB 4267MHz LPDDR4x Memory Onboard (Max of 32GB possible) + 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (Max of 2TB Possible) + 1080p touch edge to edge infinity display (4k optional)
• XPS 13 vs ThinkPad X1 Carbon Machine Learning Benchmark
• XPS 13 ML Base Benchmark - Compare your system to this one — Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 2101015-FI-CODERRADI28
• Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan — It's quite a straight-forward comparison with the Gen9/11/12 all using the Dell XPS of their time and running Ubuntu 20.10 with the above mentioned graphics driver stack configuration
• Intel's Iris Xe Graphics Preview: Is Real Gaming Power in Reach for Thin-and-Light Laptops?
• Intel Xe Graphics: Puts its GPU Stakes in the Ground

Plus the topic of hardware and software workflows is back in the news, and Instapaper goes independent. So why does that feel like a bad thing?

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• PyCharm CE
• ​Python language founder steps down
• Google’s new ‘Seedbank’
• Living with the new 15-inch MacBook Pro
• Instapaper is going independent
• Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR