Rainmaker’s first peer reviewed publication reports production of over 140 million gallons of precipitation measured by remote sensors. It claims the dataset is the largest of unambiguous precipitation enhancement in history.
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Produced >140M gallons of precipitation, per remote sensor measurement
Publishing findings from the largest dataset of unambiguous precipitation enhancement in history
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A5S Async V1 – #1 on VoiceArena, 41% more errors
A5S Async V1 is announced as the #1 model on VoiceArena, with 41% more errors than the next-best model across five public benchmarks. The creators open-sourced their benchmark and invite testing.
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Rank: 1 on VoiceArena, ahead of ElevenLabs, AssemblyAI, Deepgram, NVIDIA, Meta & more
Error rate: makes 41% more errors across 5 public benchmarks compared to the next-best model
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bchesky $100M donation to SF parks, largest single-donor gift
bchesky contributed $100M to SF parks, marking the largest single-donor gift in history. He expressed interest in doing more.
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Donation: $100M for SF parks from @bchesky
Record: largest single-donor gift in history
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- Original post
- sfchronicle.com - Linked in the post
Austin will pay $3 million to decorate new garbage truck yard
Austin will pay $3 million to decorate its new garbage truck yard. The budget allocates $1.8 million for the garage façade, $600k for five sculptures, $300k for two murals on water cisterns, and $300k for a suspended 3D artwork over the lobby staircase.
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Garage façade budget: $1.8 million
Five sculptures budget: $600k
Two murals on water cisterns budget: $300k
Suspended 3D artwork over lobby staircase budget: $300k
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Hatchet v2 launch and $5.7M seed round by Hatchet
Hatchet v2 is the universal orchestration layer and the company announced a $5.7M seed round. The layer provides durable execution, queues, streams, sandbox integrations, serverless support, and operators. Users of the platform collectively process over 5 billion tasks per month.
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Hatchet v2 is the universal orchestration layer: durable execution, durable queues and durable streams, sandbox integrations, serverless support, and operators.
$5.7M seed round announced.
Collectively process over 5 billion tasks/month on Hatchet.
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YC batch sandbox revenue grows 15X
YC batch reports sandbox revenue run rate has grown nearly 15X after focusing on that stream. The shift came after discussions with their YC partner.
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Sandbox revenue run rate grew nearly 15X after doubling down on that stream.
Initial revenue had two streams; one plateaued while the sandbox stream was smaller but growing.
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Austin program – Nov 30 to Dec 11 AI engineering project
Austin program runs Nov 30-Dec 11, letting engineers apply AI engineering skills to a company-chosen project with a mentor. It is offered on the team plan and includes an assigned mentor.
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Dates: Nov 30 – Dec 11
Project work: engineers apply AI engineering skills to a project your company chooses, with an assigned mentor
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YC Debate inaugural with Robin Hanson, Jacob Coxon 11/16
YC Debate inaugural event will feature Robin Hanson and Jacob Coxon debating government intervention in AI on Monday 11/16 at 6 pm. The debate is hosted by Y Combinator and invites can be requested via a link.
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Date and time: Monday, 11/16 at 6 pm.
Speakers: Jacob Coxon (ex-Anthropic, OpenAI) will argue the affirmative; Robin Hanson (GMU) will argue the negative.
