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DeepMind's AI for Molecular Predictions 🧬, OpenAI Secrets for Model Behavior 🔮, Apple M4 Chip Power Surge 🍎

Today's TechToks: Apple's powerful new M4 chip, How OpenAI shapes model behavior, Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 molecular predictions for free, Trending GitHub repos, and more!

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Apple introduces the powerful M4 chip, which features a blazing-fast Neural Engine capable of 38 trillion operations per second, a new 10-core CPU and GPU, and an advanced Media Engine for efficient video playback, delivering a giant leap in performance and energy efficiency for the all-new iPad Pro.

Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 3: an AI model for predicting the structures and interactions of molecules, surpassing physics-based tools for biomolecular structure prediction and enabling researchers to model complex molecular interactions. Previously used for vaccine development and designing plastic-eating enzymes, AlphaFold is now available for free access for non-commercial research on AlphaFold Server.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

The development journey of xkcd's 'Machine', a simulation game with flexibility and randomness built in, as well as player-set constraints to foster creativity within an overarching structure.

A software developer deceived their CTO by claiming the team was still working hard during the holidays, when they had already completed the required tasks, allowing the developers to take a much-needed break and deliver a successful software launch on time.

OpenAI offers a behind-the-scenes look at the secret instructions that govern its AI models — the Model Spec approach. Including high-level objectives, hard rules, and general behavior guidelines, it's the first draft document specifying how to shape desired model behavior and evaluate tradeoffs when conflicts arise.

Apple's new iPad Pro commercial, which depicts a hydraulic press crushing artistic creations, has sparked outrage in the creative community, with some perceiving it as insensitive to the growing concerns about AI automation replacing human jobs.

✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

ScrapeGraphAI is a web scraping Python library that uses large language models and direct graph logic to create scraping pipelines for websites, documents, and XML files, allowing users to extract desired information by simply providing a prompt.

LeRobot by HuggingFace provides state-of-the-art machine learning models, datasets, and tools for real-world robotics using PyTorch, with a focus on imitation learning and reinforcement learning, and aims to lower the barrier to entry to robotics by sharing pretrained models and datasets.

ChatGPT-Next-Web provides a one-click solution to deploy a well-designed, cross-platform ChatGPT web UI with support for GPT3, GPT4, and Gemini Pro models, as well as a compact desktop client for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

SocialBu 2.0 brings a sleek new interface & supercharged features to your social media game. Schedule posts, analyze data, & engage audiences effortlessly. Perfect for busy marketers & businesses of all sizes.

Work with your B2B customer data to build accurate first-party audiences, based on activities performed, stages reached, or properties sourced from your CRM without SQL. Activate data by sending these directly to Google and LinkedIn Ads with Audience Sync.

Abstra is a Python-based workflow engine to design and manage custom business processes with no overhead, powered by AI. Merge automated tasks with manual reviews, gain real-time insights into operations, and track history with logs & git-friendly versioning.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Amazon Q Developer is an AI-powered assistant for building AWS applications, introducing new capabilities such as listing and managing AWS resources through natural language prompts, retrieving cost data, and an IDE extension for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs.