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DeepMind and BioNTech Bet AI Lab Assistants Will Accelerate Science (singularityhub.com)

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Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind, and all its future products will have generative AI. (www.theverge.com)

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Anthropic's latest advance with AI, where it can operate on-screen software, shows us how future AI can replace much of today's human knowledge work. (self.futurology)

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"Anthropic’s latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model has a new feature in public beta that can control a computer by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. The new feature, called “computer use,"

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Melting Arctic sea-ice could affect global ocean circulation, study warns (phys.org)

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Researchers suggest an ion engine could get a telescope to the Solar Gravitational Len point 81 billion kms from Earth in 13 years, and thus allow high resolution imaging of nearby exoplanets. (phys.org)

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Maybe western capitalism is killing itself through low growth? (stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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This article references Britain, but I think many of its points make sense with reference to other western economies.

The author is Chris Dillow

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/chris-dillow

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Airbus UpNext and Toshiba Energy Systems are joining forces to advance superconducting technology for hydrogen-powered aircraft. (www.airbus.com)

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Spanish researchers have developed an intermediate band (IB) solar cell using gallium phosphide and titanium, which has the potential to achieve an energy conversion efficiency of up to 60%. (usasolarcell.com)

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How liver tissue from the international space station may transform tissue engineering: Pioneering space research leverages microgravity for tissue engineering breakthroughs. (www.eurekalert.org)

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With 'electro-agriculture,' plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say. (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Stamp-sized microchip that imitates the human brain could speed up treatments for Alzheimer's (medicalxpress.com)

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Study: Robotic automation, AI will speed up scientific progress in science laboratories. (techxplore.com)

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UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C is 'virtually zero' (www.unep.org)

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FAA finalizes rules that will apply to air taxis • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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Why Meta Is Filling Your Facebook and Instagram Feeds With Bots: For social media companies, slop isn't a problem — they see it as the future. (nymag.com)

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Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin therapy for depression - Nature Medicine (www.nature.com)

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Apple scraps car project, but tech lives on in BYD's EV success (interestingengineering.com)

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Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Anthropic says latest AI model can control users’ computers (archive.ph)

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Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models. (www.theguardian.com)

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Scammers swindle elderly California man out of $25K by using AI voice technology to claim his son was in ‘horrible accident,’ needed money for bail: ‘Absolutely his voice’ (nypost.com)

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AI to help doctors detect broken bones on X-rays (www.bbc.co.uk)

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A good summary of why Google may soon be in rapid decline. (www.wheresyoured.at)

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Al Will Take Over Human Systems From Within - It’s not a tool, but an alien agent, says Yuval Noah Harari in an interview. (www.noemamag.com)

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Researchers modelling AI development say the conditions for it to happen safely are not what is happening now. (arxiv.org)

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