Tech companies are voluntarily agreeing to an AI ‘kill switch’ to prevent Terminator-style risks as some regulators remain hesitant to flex their legal muscles (fortune.com)
Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced alien civilisations (www.newscientist.com)
Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes in infrared heat coming from dozens of them. Astronomers say this could be evidence for alien civilisations harnessing energy from their stars by using a vast construction known as a Dyson sphere – although they can’t fully rule out more mundane...
‘Our Oppenheimer moment’ — In Ukraine, the robot wars have already begun (www.politico.eu)
A Chinese company seems to have taken the lead from OpenAI in AI-video generation. (www.tomsguide.com)
The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps (www.wired.com)
If billionaires actually cared about saving the planet, they’d pool their vast wealth and buy everyone a heat pump. Instead of burning planet-warming fossil fuels, these appliances extract warmth from even freezing outdoor air and transfer it into a building, thanks to neat tricks of physics. In the summer, they reverse to act...
Hollywood Nightmare? New Streaming Service Lets Viewers Create Their Own Shows Using AI. (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A new open-source humanoid robot project suggests dystopian sci-fi tropes may have got it wrong; AI and robots will be decentralized/widely available, not hoarded and controlled by corporate elites.
Many people have been surprised how quickly open-source AI has kept pace with the AI efforts getting billions in investor funding. It’s worth wondering if the same may happen with robotics. After all, robotics are primarily AI too, though embodied in a 3D environment. Recently two major Chinese manufacturers, UBTech Robotics...
AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study: Algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research. (www.theguardian.com)
‘Cheap and simple’ Bill Gates-backed fusion concept surpasses heat of the Sun in milestone moment (www.rechargenews.com)
Tax the rich, say a majority of adults across 17 G20 countries surveyed (phys.org)
AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed (www.bbc.co.uk)
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
Germany’s robotic stores must rest on Sundays, too (archive.is)
Even with poorly labeled training data, new research shows AI outperforming Radiologists in diagnosing rarely encountered conditions. (www.openicpsr.org)
Microsoft being investigated over new ‘Recall’ AI feature that tracks your every PC move (mashable.com)
Faster-than-light 'warp speed' interstellar travel now thought to be possible (www.earth.com)
Evidence is growing that LLMs will never be the route to AGI. They are consuming exponentially increasing energy, to deliver only linear improvements in performance. (arxiv.org)
Good news for summer solstice as solar makes 20% of global electricity (www.euronews.com)
A new discovery about immune system function could enable a ‘unified healer army’ of T cells, that could repair injured muscle, make fat cells respond better to insulin, and regrow hair follicles. (www.eurekalert.org)
Bursts of Free Power Raise Red Flags for Green Tech Investors - Prices below zero may slow the deployment of renewables & there aren’t enough batteries to store wind, solar energy. (archive.ph)
Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its chance to become a world leader, backing local and international firms. (restofworld.org)
Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy. Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. (www.wired.com)
A Swiss research team's discovery of the quantum phenomenon of superradiance in biological cells may have startling future implications for medicine, AI, and consciousness research. (www.spectroscopyonline.com)
Beyond Ozempic. New GLP-1 drugs promise weight loss and health benefits Researchers at the ADA conference in Orlando are expected to present data on 27 GLP-1 drugs in development. (www.nbcnews.com)
SoftBank’s ‘emotion canceling’ AI tones down customers’ anger (interestingengineering.com)
