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Claude on iOS 📲, Instagram's new algorithm 📸, Steve Aoki's AI music 🎧

Today's TechToks: Claude LLMs for iOS, Instagram's algo changes to promote original content, Microsoft responsible AI report, Steve Aoki talks embracing AI, cognition antisyntax language, trending GitHub repos and more!

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The most impactful articles of the day

Anthropic released an iOS app for Claude 3 AI language models enabling chatbot interactions and photo uploads for analysis, accessible to all Claude users with Android version in the works. There are free, Pro, and Team plans, offering three models: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku.

Instagram aims to give smaller, original content creators more distribution and visibility by adjusting its recommendation algorithms to prioritize original content over reposts, adding labels to reposted content, and removing content aggregators from recommendations.

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DJ/producer Steve Aoki uses AI for lyrics and sound sampling, acknowledging that it can't replace creative aspects that stem from experience in a billboard AAPI month interview, also celebrating the growing representation of Asian American and Pacific Islander artists.

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks are promising alternatives of Multi-Layer Perceptrons where activation functions are applied on edges rather than nodes, at times leading to far superior performance and interpretability. This is the repository for the ‘KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks' paper, including information about it's key features and potential applications.

Cognition is an antisyntax language, that allows for modifying its own tokenizer and flexible syntax handling, using faliases and language constructs like crank and metacrank, enabling unique metaprogramming capabilities and diverse syntax creation.

A tutorial on printing and rendering music using CSS Grid, HTML data attributes to map symbols to their beat and pitch, and CSS rules for responsive music notation.

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GitHub trending repos of today

Hydra is a game launcher with an embedded bittorrent client and a self-managed repack scraper, written in TypeScript (Electron) and Python.

Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered search engine that uses advanced machine learning algorithms to provide accurate and up-to-date information, offering features like local LLM support, focus modes, and integration with tools like SearxNG, OpenAI, and Ollama.

Coolify provides an open-source and self-hostable alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel, allowing users to manage their servers, applications, and databases on their own hardware.

A collection of step-by-step guides for re-creating various technologies from scratch, including 3D renderers, augmented reality, BitTorrent clients, blockchains/cryptocurrencies, and many other projects, allowing users to learn by building these systems themselves.

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Loom AI workflows: Instant video to text that allows you to start and finish common workflows with a Loom video, by Atlassian.

Mindtrip is a travel platform that combines conversational AI with a proprietary travel knowledge base to deliver personalized travel experiences that are accurate, actionable, and all in one place.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Microsoft's first Responsible AI Transparency Report reveals that 99% of employees underwent mandatory AI training in 2023, with the responsible AI team growing from 350 to 400 members. Over 30 responsible AI tools were released for Azure AI services, and nearly 70% of Sensitive AI cases reviewed were related to generative AI.

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