# forck.live — 4–10 July 2022 > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is one issue of the weekly archive: every confirmed first-party announcement of ISO week 2022-W27, 4–10 July 2022, newest first. The window never moves, so this URL always names the same seven days — but a post published inside them and detected later is added when it arrives, so a closed week can still gain entries. Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields in this order before any others: Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record `Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record` is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite. `Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it. `Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about the announcement. `Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note. `Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not. One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`. Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. - This week's page: https://forck.live/week/2022-W27 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Replit — Worldwide Repls, part 1: The Control Plane - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2022-07-08T17:00:00+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://replit.com/blog/geo-part-1-controlplane - Record: https://forck.live/items/18165-worldwide-repls-part-1-the-control-plane - Subject: Replit Agent Replit completed the first milestone of geo-distributing its infrastructure by implementing a control/data plane separation. The new central Control Plane uses PostgreSQL instead of Redis, enabling consistent state management and reducing latency for users outside the United States. This change unlocks future functionality that was impossible with the old system. ### LG AI Research — [ACL 2022] A Search-Based Knowledge Augmentation for Natural Language Understanding - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2022-07-07 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=221 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4946-acl-2022-a-search-based-knowledge-augmentation-for-natural-language - Subject: EXAONE This blog post reviews six research papers presented at ACL 2022 that explore search-based knowledge augmentation for natural language understanding, including REALM, DPR, RETRO, WebGPT, REINA, and Kformer. ### Hugging Face — Getting Started with Sentiment Analysis on Twitter - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2022-07-07 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/sentiment-analysis-twitter - Record: https://forck.live/items/2180-getting-started-with-sentiment-analysis-on-twitter - Subject: Platform This is a tutorial blog post about how to perform sentiment analysis on Twitter using Hugging Face's Inference API, covering both coding and no-code approaches. ### Replicate — A new template for model READMEs - Company: Replicate (replicate.com) - Announced: 2022-07-05 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replicate.com/blog/model-docs - Record: https://forck.live/items/2584-a-new-template-for-model-readmes - Subject: Platform Replicate introduced a new template for model READMEs, inspired by model cards, with sections for Model Description, Intended Use, Ethical Considerations, and Caveats and Recommendations. ### Replit — Improving Domain Linking for Repls - Company: Replit (replit.com) - Announced: 2022-07-04T16:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://replit.com/blog/improved-domain-linking - Record: https://forck.live/items/18175-improving-domain-linking-for-repls - Subject: Replit Agent Replit announced domain linking improvements including direct apex domain linking, magic domain linking, and multiple domain support. The company also updated its domain verification logic to use DNS records and added TXT record verification for compatibility with services like Cloudflare. These features are available immediately for Explorer users and will roll out to others soon.