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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) The 'subprime' AI crisis 2) Will companies building on AI persist if prices increase? 3) OpenAI funding news update 4) Do the research houses not care about the business side, and only want AGI? 5) iPhone16 releases to mild enthusiasm 6) Huawei's trifold phone is a hot seller 7) Mr. Beast's leaked guide to excellence at his production company 8) Amazon's culture has problems, says CEO Andy Jassy

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Read the paper Gias coauthored about incorrectness in AI-generated code or explore more of his research. 

You can connect with Gias via his website.

We previously covered research on Stack Overflow code snippets that Gias was involved in and spoke to his team about deriving sentiment from SO comments.  

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Adhi Ardiansyah for an excellent explanation of How to update a GitHub access token via command line.

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• PHPRoundtable 
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Hello listeners.

Today, I have an awesome follow episode from our friends at Swob. You may remember our episode with Stephanie Florio in Season 6 over 2 years ago, where she clued us in on the creation story of the company. Today, I'm speaking with her co-founder and brother, Alex, to hear the update on Swob and what the team has been up to since then. Have a listen now

It's very cool to hear the successful update with Swob, adding over 7 million jobs to the platform, scaling for businesses and candidates, and ensuring they have the right team in place to carry out the vision.

If you would like to learn more about Swob, go to swobapp.com.

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Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn and host of The Path podcast. He joins Big Technology to discuss how AI will change our jobs and the future of tech products. Tune in to hear Ryan's perspective whether AI replace workers, which tasks are ripe for automation, and how LinkedIn is adapting its products for the AI era. We also discuss the importance of professional content on LinkedIn, the rise of video on the platform, and why podcasts are a key LinkedIn focus area. Hit play for an insightful conversation with the leader of the world's largest professional network.

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Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings at home. He went to school for electrical engineering, and funny enough, interviewed for a computer science job by accident, effectively stumbling into the trade. Outside of tech, he spends his free time with his fiancé, planning for the wedding, and visiting Manhattan beach for a good walk .

Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast.

This is the creation story of Lightspark.

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Topics covered in this episode:

• “We must replace uwsgi by something else”
• Let’s build and optimize a Rust extension for Python
• Fake recruiter coding tests target devs with malicious Python packages
• Monthly PSF Board Office Hours
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/401

Multimodal AI combines different modalities—audio, video, text, etc.—to enable more humanlike engagement and higher-quality responses from the AI model. 

WebRTC is a free, open-source project that allows developers to add real-time communication capabilities that work on top of an open standard to their applications. It supports video, voice, and generic data.

LiveKit is an open-source project that provides scalable, multi-user conferencing based on WebRTC. It’s designed to provide everything developers need to build real-time voice and video applications. Check them out on GitHub.

Connect with Russ on LinkedIn or X and explore his posts on the LiveKit blog.

Stack Overflow user Kristi Jorgji threw inquiring minds a lifejacket (badge) by answering their own question: Error trying to import dump from mysql 5.7 into 8.0.23.