In tests in elderly mice, researchers find that TERT, an enzyme that protects telomeres in chromosomes, significantly improves cognition and muscle function and reduces many age-related markers. (newatlas.com)
Contrary to many predictions, so much new lithium is being mined there is a global glut and falling prices. (www.mining.com)
To cure disease, AI needs more of our data. (archive.ph)
Solar Power’s Expansion and Food Production Are Compatible (www.bloomberg.com)
Why Not Give Robots Foot-Eyes? Can cameras inside of robots’ feet help them walk? (spectrum.ieee.org)
The Coming Great Conflict; an essay explores if the US is nearing a civil war. (time.com)
The Next Generation of Robotic Surgeons are Arriving (www.ai-supremacy.com)
A biotech startup claims its LLM AI creates new proteins by simulating 500 million years of evolution. (www.evolutionaryscale.ai)
Chip startup Etched says its Sohu chip, designed only to run transformer model AIs, is approx 100 times faster and cheaper than Nvidia's next-gen chips. (techcrunch.com)
The mirage at the core of space commerce, space stations, and other options. (www.thespacereview.com)
Researchers suggest a technique called 'semantic entropy' may detect hallucinations in LLM AI (www.nature.com)
Japanese firm TDK says new material allows solid-state batteries to reach an energy density of 1,000 Wh/L, which is around 100 times more than their existing conventional solid-state batteries. (www.tdk.com)
Japanese firm TDK says new material allows solid-state batteries to reach an energy density of 1,000 Wh/L, which is around 100 times more than their existing conventional solid-state batteries.
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)
Stanford University is the latest entrant to develop an open-source humanoid robot. Will future robots be cheap, and widely available, like open-source software today? (www.inverse.com)
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)
Generative AI on pace to Accelerate Wealth Inequality - The International Monetary Fund warned that nearly 40% of jobs across the globe could be affected by the rise of artificial intelligence. (www.ai-supremacy.com)
Ilya Sutskever just launched a new AI venture focused solely on developing safe and powerful superintelligence, coming just a month after his official departure from OpenAI. (ssi.inc)
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D - Ideas come from the edges, not the center (www.oneusefulthing.org)
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (www.anthropic.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)
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...
Swiss researchers want to build edible robots. So far they've developed edible batteries and other components, and say there may be a surprisingly wide range of use cases for edible robots.. (techxplore.com)
The former head of the US's National Security Agency joins OpenAI board (www.theverge.com)
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom, but that comes with problems too. (www.technologyreview.com)
