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'Butter' made from CO2 could pave the way for food without farming (www.newscientist.com)

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A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water vapor (www.popsci.com)

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The Only Ethical Model for AI is Socialism (www.currentaffairs.org)

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Intuit, Maker of TurboTax, Fires 1,800 Workers, Says It’s Pivoting to AI (futurism.com)

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One-third of U.S. military could be robotic, Milley predicts (www.axios.com)

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Yoshua Bengio: Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously (yoshuabengio.org)

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A Moon Base Will Need a Transport System NASA Says (www.universetoday.com)

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China's AI model glut is a 'significant waste of resources' due to scarce real-world applications for 100+ LLMs says Baidu CEO (www.tomshardware.com)

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How can this community leverage its access to the 20 million subscribers in r/futurology on Reddit? (images.cnbctv18.com)

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As you probably know from the sidebar this site was started by moderators from the r/futurology subreddit, and some of us moderate both. We initially thought most of the site's growth would come via Reddit, but it hasn't happened that way. Our main instance - c/futurology - gets most of its subscribers from elsewhere in the fediverse. Despite several attempts with pinned posts that a few thousand people have read, only 20% of our userbase joined from Reddit.

We don't want to spam the subreddit user base, but we have access to things like pinned posts and comments to promote this site.

We'd like to grow subscriber numbers for here from Reddit. Any ideas as to how to do this more successfully than we have previously?

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Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society? (www.theguardian.com)

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Using existing multimodal AI, Google's DeepMind shows a robot that can use it to navigate around a workspace, perform tasks, and talk to the humans it encounters. (techcrunch.com)

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AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling - Scale is propelling the AI industry. But for how long? (www.exponentialview.co)

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Neurotech startup Synchron announced that it has integrated OpenAI’s generative AI into its brain-computer interface, enabling hands-free chatting for severely paralyzed users. (www.massdevice.com)

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OpenAI introduced a new five-tier system to track its progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), and thinks it is currently at Level 2 (archive.ph)

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Google DeepMind's new research on robot navigation, leverages the large context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro to enable robots to understand and navigate complex environments from human instructions (www.gadgets360.com)

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New JWST data suggest an exoplanet called LHS 1140 b may be a water world with surface temperatures of 20 Celsius. (phys.org)

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Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center have developed a groundbreaking mouse model known as TruHuX (for truly human), which features a complete and functional human immune system (news.uthscsa.edu)

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China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts - We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here. (www.bloomberg.com)

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Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines (www.theguardian.com)

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‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules (www.nature.com)

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China scientists’ low-cost solid-state battery could be EV industry breakthrough. USTC research team breaks cost barrier to next-generation rechargeable lithium batteries, according to paper. (www.scmp.com)

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Life-Size Humanoid Robot With Dexterous Hands Unveiled at World AI Conference: Qinglong, developed by China's Humanoid Robots lab, showcased advanced dexterity and AI-powered grasping (www.iotworldtoday.com)

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AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report (www.tomshardware.com)

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The decentralisation of energy, driven by modularity and declining prices, is reshaping economies, transforming geopolitics, and democratising access to electricity globally. (www.exponentialview.co)

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California imposes permanent water restrictions on cities and towns (www.newsweek.com)

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