Netflix adds TV 📺, AWS vs Nvidia ⚡, Waymo in NYC 🚗

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France's largest commercial broadcaster, TF1 will show all five of its linear channels on Netflix, as well as more than 30,000 hours of TV shows available on demand. The deal opens the door to more deals between Netflix and traditional TV groups and could bring different sorts of TV shows to Netflix, such as soap operas and live sports. AWS' custom chip strategy is showing results, and cutting into Nvidia's AI dominance (3 minute read) AWS has updated its Graviton4 chip, which now has 600 gigabits per second of network bandwidth. The CPU's release schedule will be provided by the end of June. The updated Graviton4 chip puts AWS into competition against traditional semiconductor players like Intel and AMD. The upgrade demonstrates Amazon's broader ambition to control the entire AI infrastructure stack. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Waymo Wants to Bring Its Robotaxis to New York City (2 minute read) Waymo plans to return to New York City next month to do more mapping as well as testing. However, its vehicles will be driven by humans. New York state law doesn't allow for vehicles to operate without a person at the wheel, but Waymo is pushing for changes to the law. Waymo's taxis have surged in popularity in other cities - the company now provides more than 250,000 autonomous trips each week. Amazon's Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility (2 minute read) Zoox has opened its first full-fledged production facility in Hayward, California, near the company's Foster City headquarters. The new factory will be used for engineering, software and hardware integration, assembly, storage, and testing. Zoox expects to one day build 10,000 robotaxis per year at the site. It is currently testing vehicles in multiple US cities. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs (22 minute read) One way to port a codebase from C to Rust is to have large language models write fuzz tests and build the port in topological order. This blog post discusses how. While the overall system seems to work, there are some downsides - for example, the resulting Rust code is very 'C-like'. Full automation is difficult, but it may not be completely necessary as humans can still be used to fix issues as they emerge. Fang (GitHub Repo) Fang is a starter kit for Cobra CLIs. It features fancy output, fancy errors, themes, and more. Screenshots and examples are available in the repository. 🎁 Miscellaneous Microsoft Plans to Cut Thousands More Employees (2 minute read) Microsoft plans to lay off several thousand employees around the beginning of the company's new fiscal year, which starts in July. The job cuts will affect sales and other teams. The number of cuts has not yet been finalized. Microsoft laid off roughly 6,000 product and software developer roles around the world in May. The Great Decoupling (or Why Your Clicks Are Down and Impressions Up) (4 minute read) Google's AI Overviews creates two opportunities for top-ranking content to log impressions for a given keyword: once as a blue link and again as a citation in an AI Overview. Citations seem to be pulled from content that already ranks highly in traditional search results. Clicks are decreasing because AI Overviews are increasing zero-click searches - many searchers are able to resolve their queries now without leaving the search results page. However, it's not all doom and gloom: visits from AI search convert 23 times better than visits from traditional search. ⚡ Quick Links ChatGPT is my static site generator (4 minute read) Give ChatGPT a template and some content and it can generate a complete site. Trump to extend TikTok deadline for third time, pushing decision out another 90 days (2 minute read) The new extension will last 90 days - it is still unclear whether the Chinese government will approve a deal. Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs (26 minute read) Homomorphic encryption is a special form of encryption that allows computers to run programs on encrypted data without decrypting it. Unregistry (GitHub Repo) Unregistry is a lightweight container image registry that works like rsync for Docker images. OpenAI Self Driving Tech (1 minute read) Sam Altman recently said in an interview that OpenAI has new self-driving car technology that is better than any other current approach. Expert Generalists (11 minute read) The most effective workers have skills that span across many specialties. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/7c97ce4b/ Track your referrals here. 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