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Good morning. It’s Monday, November 18th.

Did you know: On this day in 1970, Douglas Engelbart was granted a patent for his "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System", more commonly known as the Computer Mouse.

In today’s email:

• LLM’s New Web Scraping Technique

• Elon & Sam’s Old Emails

• NVIDIA Chips Overheating AI Supercomputers

• 6 New AI Tools

• Latest AI Research Papers

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New "llms.txt" web standard could fundamentally change how LLMs read and process online content

The "llms.txt" web standard proposes a structured mechanism for optimizing how language models access and interpret website content. Introduced by AI expert Jeremy Howard, this initiative seeks to address AI systems’ limitations in processing extensive textual data by offering concise, AI-centric content guides. Positioned as an adjunct to existing web tools like robots.txt and sitemap.xml, llms.txt allows websites to encapsulate essential information in a streamlined format by introducing Markdown-ready summaries and AI-targeted indexing.

Yet, it doesn’t sidestep tough questions: Who owns the rights when AI reinterprets site content? How do creators monetize when bots do the browsing? Adoption hinges on developers seeing value in this format, but if embraced, it could reshape the AI-web interface. GitHub hosts the specs, leaving the door open for input on this potentially pivotal standard. Read more.

Elon Musk didn't want OpenAI to seem like Microsoft's "marketing bitch"

Newly disclosed emails from ongoing court proceedings reveal the escalating tensions between Elon Musk and OpenAI, culminating in his 2018 exit from the board. Musk, who initially co-founded OpenAI to challenge Google's DeepMind, grew disillusioned with the organization’s direction. By 2017, OpenAI leaders raised concerns over Musk’s push for control of a potential for-profit entity, fueling accusations of power consolidation.

The relationship further fractured in 2018 when Musk criticised OpenAI’s leadership, rejected a proposed cryptocurrency funding model, and suggested incorporating Tesla’s AI. His demand for an organizational overhaul or a clean break led to his resignation.

While OpenAI cited conflict-of-interest issues, the leaked communications suggest a deeper discord. Musk, now pursuing AGI through xAI, continues to challenge OpenAI’s evolution, including its shift to a for-profit structure and Microsoft’s perceived influence. Read more.

New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers, the Information reports

Nvidia’s new Blackwell AI chips are facing significant overheating issues when used in server racks designed for up to 72 units, according to reports. These chips, which have already experienced delays, are causing concerns among customers who are unsure if they can complete the necessary setup of new data centers on time.

Nvidia has been working with suppliers to redesign the server racks multiple times in an attempt to mitigate the overheating problem. Despite this, the company maintains that such engineering iterations are standard.

The Blackwell chips, announced in March, promise a substantial performance increase, being 30 times faster than previous models at tasks like chatbot responses. However, delays in shipping may impact major customers such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft. Read more.

• Scaling laws for precision: AI researcher sees "perfect storm" for the end of scale

• AI headphones create a 'sound bubble,' quieting all sounds more than a few feet away

• Robust AI’s Carter Pro robot is designed to work with, and be moved by, humans  

• Elon Musk Says AI Will Surpass Doctors, Lawyers After ChatGPT Tops Medical Diagnoses — Humans Becoming 'Biological' Backups

• Stanford’s Virtual Lab Develops AI-Generated Nanobodies to Combat SARS-CoV-2 Variants 

• People prefer AI poetry to Shakespeare when they don't know it's AI poetry

• AI can 'hear' when a lithium battery is about to catch fire

• It has been one year since The Blip

• Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI

• ​​Casey Affleck Says Meta’s New AI Tool Will Help Filmmakers Without Access to ‘Studio Heads and All of Their Big Budgets’

📄 LLaVA-o1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step

📄 GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation ​​

📄 Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models

📄 The Dawn of GUI Agent: A Preliminary Case Study with Claude 3.5 Computer Use

📄 Scaling Properties of Diffusion Models for Perceptual Tasks  

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