Cursor AI "has crossed $500M in annual revenue(!!) which might be a record: no other dev tools company I know of hit this milestone within 2 years of launching its first product. It helps that Cursor is used by more than half of the 500 largest tech companies on the Fortune 500."
Details of Cursor's internals...
Turron alleges to be "a video recognition system that works like Shazam -- but for video."
"It analyzes short snippets (2-5 seconds), breaks them into keyframes, and uses perceptual hashing to identify the exact or near-exact source, even if the clip has been edited or altered. This preserves the full context of the snippet and enables reliable tracking of original video content."
Builder.ai was valued at $1.5 billion, but it turned out there was no AI. All the code from Builder.ai was Indian developers pretending to write code as AI. Allegedly. And the company has filed for bankruptcy. According to an article in Chinese published on Binance Square (English translation at this link).
It's like a reverse deepfake.
DeepTeam is billed as an "open-source LLM red teaming framework for penetration testing large-language model systems."
"AI Engineer" pays $145,100 (in the United States) and is growing 12%/year according to Jobicy.
AI-powered greeting cards. I'm surprised it's taken this long for me to see this.
"We implemented a simplified version of AlphaEvolve to optimize Perlin noise code to resemble a target fire image. Code is available at the end of this post."
"For simplicity, I used Mean Squared Error (MSE) as the fitness function."
Hmm not bad a little lo-res.
"Generative AIs are just nowhere near doing the work as well as a human, and the productivity gains -- the *hype* is insisting upon -- are nowhere to be seen. But that's not stopping people from believing the hype. And that's not stopping managers from laying people off, because they believe that AI will be able to make the remaining people do the work of all the folks that were let go."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJGNqnq-aCA
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #codingai #technologicalunemployment
"Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky sentenced to 12 years in multi-billion-dollar crypto fraud case."
OpenAI o3 plays (the equivalent of) GeoGuessr. Photos from personal collections, not actually on Google Street view. Can't do the impossible, but does astonishingly well. Try to guess the locations of the photos yourself before you scroll down and reveal the answers.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-genius
The CEO of Fiverr, Micha Kaufman, sent a letter to everyone in the company:
"Here is the unpleasant truth: Al is coming for your jobs."
Claude's system prompt got leaked. Wait, people are saying Anthropic doesn't keep their system prompts secret, so this isn't really a 'leak'? Well, either way, here you are, you can read Claude's system prompt if you feel like it.
"We have reached the 'severed fingers and abductions' stage of the crypto revolution."
3D-printed Starbucks. In Brownsville, Texas. Rumored to be opening on April 28. Today is May 8th. Is it open?
https://newatlas.com/architecture/3d-printed-starbucks-texas/
Aurora Driver has begun commercial operations. Aurora Driver is the eighteen-wheeler truck driving AI from Aurora Innovation. The first driverless truck delivery trip was on April 26th, between Dallas and Houston.
https://aurora.tech/newsroom/aurora-delivers-my-ride-in-the-first-self-driving-commercial-truck
What Mario Zechner learned these past months:
"Abandon Arduino and embrace the ESP32 line of microcontrollers, which are a million times more versatile, powerful and cheaper."
"Learn how to use Electronic Design Automation software like KiCad or in my case EasyEDA Pro, to create my own PCB designs"
"ApplyIQ: A smarter way to get hired."
"ApplyIQ is your personal AI job search agent. Upload your resume, tell us what you're looking for, and we apply to jobs for you."
So now employers can get swamped with thousands (millions?) of résumés, rather than mere hundreds? But hey, if you do it first you may get ahead of the curve and land that dream job?
A new benchmark called CURIE measures how good language models are at science.
https://research.google/blog/evaluating-progress-of-llms-on-scientific-problem-solving/
The CEO of Shopify has just announced that all developers must use AI daily. Actually all *employees*, developers or otherwise, must use AI daily.
https://x.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514
#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #codingai #technologicalunemployment
"The Great Unstacking: How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack."
If you are in Europe, switch to: OVHcloud (France), IONOS (Germany), Scaleway (France), Elastx (Sweden), Hetzner (Germany).
