It’s about time that the microdrama trend has gone mainstream. As microdrama apps like ReelShort and DramaBox quietly rake in billions, Peacock announced on Monday that’s launching two unscripted Bravo microdramas, which will stream on its app. These are vertical video series, with episodes around 60 to 90 seconds, are designed for a quick, TikTok-like…
Redwood Supplies has lastly discovered a brand new chief monetary officer roughly a 12 months and a half after its last one departed. He’s a well-known face to the previous Tesla executives working the battery recycling and power storage firm. On Monday, Redwood Supplies mentioned it has employed former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja as…
The New York Occasions is betting that the Wordle craze isn’t over but. On Monday, the Occasions announced that it could be turning the hit cell phrase sport right into a televised sport present on NBC. “At present” present anchor Savannah Guthrie will host the affair, whereas The Occasions and “The Tonight Present” host Jimmy…
TikTok is introducing an ad-free subscription plan in the U.K. that costs £3.99 (about $5.44 USD) per month. The new offering is rolling out over the coming months and will be available to users 18 and over. Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used…
Discord on Monday unveiled Nitro Rewards, which gives Nitro subscribers access to offers from other gaming and lifestyle brands for no additional cost. Currently, Nitro offers upgrades to Discord itself, like more profile customization options, HD streaming, and the ability to upload files of up to 500 MB. The subscription is optional, as you can…
Venmo is rolling out a significant redesign over the coming months that aims to make the app more useful, social, and easier to navigate. This is the peer-to-peer payments app’s biggest refresh since 2021. The timing is notable. PayPal, which owns Venmo, is restructuring to spin Venmo off as a standalone business unit — a…
Forgive me for beginning with a cliché, a chunk of finance jargon that has lately slipped into the tech lexicon, however I’m afraid I need to speak about “moats.” Popularized many years in the past by Warren Buffett to discuss with an organization’s aggressive benefit, the phrase discovered its manner into Silicon Valley pitch decks…
People who had previously felt paralyzed by their NDA’s began to talk. Helena, the conflict-avoidant moderator of the Mercor subreddit, worked overtime deleting furious rants from aggrieved workers who delighted in dropping names of the “secret projects”—something explicitly banned by the non-disclosure agreement every tasker must sign before being hired as an Independent Contractor. Elsewhere,…
Scaling large language models (LLMs) is expensive. Every token processed during inference and every gradient computed during training flows through feedforward layers that account for over two-thirds of model parameters and more than 80% of total FLOPs in larger models. A team researchers from Sakana AI and NVIDIA have worked on a new research that…
banner(“Part 5 — Streaming”) mem.attribution(entity_id=”[email protected]”, process_id=”personal-assistant”) stream = client.chat.completions.create( model=MODEL, messages=[{“role”: “user”, “content”: “In two sentences, what do you remember about me?”}], stream=True, ) print(“[stream] “, end=””) for chunk in stream: d = chunk.choices[0].delta.content if d: print(d, end=””, flush=True) print(); time.sleep(WRITE_DELAY) banner(“Part 6 — Async LLM calls”) async def async_demo(): r = await async_client.chat.completions.create( model=MODEL,…
