Ora Protocol’s IMO allows tokenizing AI models onchain, bringing revenue sharing to IMO token holders. IMOs serve three purposes: enabling sustainable open-source AI funding, aligning contribution incentives, and model value capture for holders. The $OLM IMO will tokenize the OpenLM model, a medium-sized language model that is performant on up to 7 billion parameters.

This author wanted to physically browse their iMessage history, which is difficult with Apple's interface. They found that iPhone backups contain an 'sms.db' SQLite database with messages. Using SQL queries, they were able to retrieve their messages. They then generated LaTeX code to create a paperback book from their messages.

Tesla says that its own 4680 battery cells, a new cell format enabled by new technologies like tabless cells, are expected to become cheaper than cells coming from suppliers by the end of the year. Tesla's 4680 battery cell was first revealed in 2020 with promises of enabling significantly lower cost, more range, and faster charging. They are currently exclusively used in the Cybertruck. Tesla plans to continue to purchase its cells from LG, Panasonic, and CATL.

Payment processing solution Square has announced a new feature that allows sellers to convert their sales into Bitcoin automatically. The conversion occurs using the subsidiary company Cash App, which can convert 1-10% of daily sales to BTC. Jack Dorsey, the founder of Square and Twitter, strongly supports Bitcoin.

Paradigm has released its roadmap for scaling the Reth Ethereum execution client. The roadmap proposes changing the scalability metric from transactions per second to gas per second as a more nuanced way to understand the network's computational throughput. Paradigm plans to use vertical and horizontal scaling — accomplished via a parallel EVM, multi-rollup support, and cloud-native nodes, among other improvements — to achieve 1 gigagas/s, 200x faster than Base and 800x faster than mainnet.

A team of industrial designers has prototyped a furniture collection that dramatically transforms flat sheets into fully functional objects. Recognizing the high demand for online commerce and the inefficiency of shipping large furniture items, the team developed a line of collapsible stools, chairs, wine racks, and other products made from cellulose sponges. These products can be flattened and dried to fit into standard envelopes.

Hazy research has introduced a new DSL for writing CUDA kernels. It has written flash attention, which is 30% faster and fits in only 100 lines of code.

'The Third Thumb' is a 3D-printed robotic wearable designed to enhance users' biological capabilities. Controlled by users' toes, the robotic thumb sits on the side of the palm opposite users' biological thumbs, resembling a sixth elongated finger. It is operated through a pair of sensors under each big toe - pressure applied by the right toe moves the thumb side to side, while pressure from the left toe moves it up and down. The device can be used to complete tasks that would ordinarily be difficult or impossible to perform with just a thumb and fingers. A video demonstrating what The Third Thumb can do is available in the article.

Smell in humans is experienced through about 400 types of receptors in the nose. Scientists are using machine learning to help computers learn what certain molecules or sets of molecules smell like to humans. Machine learning is key to digitizing smells because it can learn to map the molecular structure of an odor-causing compound to textual odor descriptors. Dataset sizes have grown significantly in the past few years, allowing researchers to finally apply machine learning to machine olfaction. The technology has promising applications such as personalized perfumes and fragrances, better insect repellents, novel chemical sensors, early detection of diseases, and more realistic augmented reality experiences.

Coinbase Wallet has introduced a feature to send tokens via text to kick off its Onchain Summer initiative. Recipient phone numbers will receive a link to claim the tokens, which will be returned to the sender if not claimed in 2 weeks.

Researchers have created an ultra-thin battery about 0.2 millimeters thick. Powered by a biocompatible saline solution, the battery is thin enough to fit inside a 0.5-millimeter contact lens. The battery can use the glucose in tears to power up. Its capacity and voltage are currently very low and insufficient for powering data storage or an internet connection.

Japanese company TDK claims it has made a material that provides an energy density of 1,000 watt-hours per liter, about 100 times greater than TDK's current batteries. The material will enable smaller device sizes and longer operating times. It offers a higher degree of stability and safety, but its fragility makes it impractical for use in cars or smartphones. TDK plans to start shipping samples of its new battery prototypes to clients next year before moving into mass production.

Coinbase has introduced pre-launch markets, allowing users to trade tokens before their onchain creation and participate in price discovery. Pre-launch markets uses a perpetual derivative model, basing the token price off the exponential moving average of the market's mark prices every four hours. The first token supported will be EIGEN and trading will be open to Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced users.

Fluid's DEX introduces Smart Collateral, allowing users to borrow against collateral and deploy it as AMM liquidity to earn trading and lending fees. Its Smart Debt uses debt as trading liquidity, allowing fees to reduce the borrowing APR. Users can leverage their LP positions and earn up to 39x higher trading fees. It is scheduled to launch by the end of July.

US media company Fox Corp. launched Verify L2 to track online content usage. Verify allows media entities to register content, grant usage rights, and verify content provenance, focusing on content ownership and journalistic integrity. It was deployed using Gelato Rollup-as-a-Service as a Polygon CDK validium. Time, the first third-party publishing partner to be onboarded, plans to use Verify for content licensing and verification.

Singapore is the only country where cultivated meat can be purchased in shops. The country aims to produce 30% of its nutritional needs locally by 2030. Its approval of cultivated meat has attracted companies from all over the world to develop alternative proteins. Its regulatory structure makes it the perfect spot for companies to further the technology and help drive down costs.

Toys R Us created the first brand film to use OpenAI's new text-to-video tool Sora. The tool, which is currently only available to alpha testers, can generate up to one-minute-long videos based on text prompts. Sora allowed the content to be produced in just a few weeks, in time to premiere at Cannes Lions.

Japan Railway's new humanoid robot employee is being put to use for maintenance work on the company's rail network. The 12-meter-high robot can carry objects as heavy as 40kg, hold a brush to paint, and use a chainsaw. Its current primary tasks are to trim tree branches along rails and paint the metal frames that hold cables above trains. The technology is aimed at filling worker shortages in the aging country as well as reducing worker accidents.

Forma aims to co create Solana Economic Zones that build bridges between the web3 economy and Nations' economies to help both prosper exponentially. The first ever Solana Economic Zone will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and will have a month-long assembly for founders, builders, investors, and policy makers to work together.

Chinese researchers have created a solar powered drone that weighs just over four grams. It uses an electrostatic motor that weighs just 1.52 grams and is powered by solar cells that produce 4.5V. Its design has a lift-to-power efficiency two to three times better than that found in traditional drones. Adding batteries to the drone would make it capable of 24-hour flying operations.

Elastic Block Store (EBS) at AWS has evolved from simple shared drives to a massive, distributed SSD system delivering over 140 trillion operations daily. This post shares key lessons learned over the years, emphasizing the importance of incremental improvements, comprehensive instrumentation, and the power of constraints to drive innovation. It also discusses how a team tackled performance challenges by addressing the entire system stack, from the hypervisor to the network, and ultimately by building their own SSDs optimized for EBS.

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana are working to adapt artisan glass-blowing techniques to a robotic platform. They have developed a technique that uses a laser to heat the surface of a glass rod so it can be deformed to create 3D shapes. It is able to create the transparent solid structures needed in optical, microfluidic, and photonic devices. The method can deposit glass at 15 cubic millimeters per second. A picture of the glass 3D printer is available.

LoveFrom, founded by Jony Ive, partnered with Moncler on a modular shell jacket collection featuring a down-filled vest with interchangeable outer layers. The key to this design is the innovative "duo button," which uses magnets to seamlessly swap jacket layers, eliminating the fuss of traditional fasteners. The partnership is also symbolized in the duo button's design, which features logos of both brands and fun, cartoon-inspired details inside the jacket.

Rabby has launched "GasAccount", a mechanism that simplifies gas fee payments by allowing users to deposit USDT/USDC and automatically pay for gas on any network without holding gas tokens in their addresses. Transactions are processed in seconds with gas fees pre-estimated and charged in USD, with any unused gas remaining in the user's address without additional charges beyond a small transaction fee.

Ether.fi has partnered with Scroll_ZKP to make Scroll's platform the settlement layer for the new Ether.fi Cash credit card, which offers up to 8% cash back on transactions. The card is accepted wherever VISA is and also includes perks like a complimentary pass to the Token2049 conference for certain cardholders. It promises a blend of efficient, cost-effective onchain and real-world utility.

a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Fall 2024 program has launched in New York City with 21 startups from 11 countries participating in an 8-week program featuring lessons from top crypto founders, support from a16z crypto's teams, and networking opportunities.

Oracle is designing a data center that will require more than a gigawatt of power. It will be powered by three small modular nuclear reactors. Oracle has already received building permits for the reactors but hasn't publicly disclosed the location of the data center or future reactors. There are currently three operational small modular reactors in the world, with experts in the industry generally agreeing that the technology won't be commercialized in the US until the 2030s.

Market maker and trading firm Wintermute has created a betting market focusing solely on the US election. It uses Chaos Labs' Edge Proof Oracles, which use LLMs to ensure data integrity, authenticity, and unbiased determination. Current prediction markets have issues with human-driven systems in ambiguous situations, like the 2024 Venezuela Election, where both sides claimed victory with data to support it.

Pipe Network, built by Permissionless Labs, aims to be the first permissionless content delivery network (CDN) built on Solana. The decentralized CDN (dCDN) concept promises lower latency, increased redundancy, and reduced costs by leveraging underutilized upload bandwidth. Pipe aims to build the world's fastest and largest CDN, with 3ms + speed of light response times. Its first public demo will be released next week at Solana's Breakpoint conference.

Mastercard is launching a haptic logo that provides vibrations in sync with its sonic brand to enhance customer trust during transactions. This innovation addresses shoppers' uncertainty at checkout and will initially debut in Latin America and Eastern Europe. The brand shares that addressing even small customer anxieties can lead to substantial returns.