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An Italian startup called Scuter is rolling out tiny 3-wheeled robo-taxis that drive themselves to you to pick you up, and park themselves when they're done, at half the cost of human driven taxis. (chargingstack.com) 3 Lugh 15 »
With 92% of new jobs going to women (largely in healthcare) and tech employment shrinking, has the time to politicize the post-work world arrived already? (adamtooze.substack.com) 0 Lugh 3 »
What if China became the world's leading exporter of culture? With AI it may be about to. (news.ifeng.com) 3 Lugh -3 »
The battery storage for a 100%-renewables grid is building itself; billions of appliance batteries are acting as virtual power plants. (www.technologyreview.com) 13 Lugh 74 »
How AI is reshaping everyday life in China (www.aljazeera.com) 1 sabreW4K3 7 »
Chinese firms will create the global robo-taxi future; even Waymo's US expansion plans depend on them. (techcrunch.com) 0 Lugh 8 »
Two-legged delivery robot takes to streets of Barnsley in Tech Town trial (www.bbc.co.uk) 0 sabreW4K3 10 »
Joby Aviation have demoed their self-flying AI tech, by having a converted Cessna fly from the US West to East coast 100% autonomously. (www.jobyaviation.com) 11 Lugh 30 »
A new approach to cancer treatment, that uses gene editing to get the liver to produce anti-cancer drugs, has completely cleared the leukemia of the three people so far tested with it. (vironexis.com) 5 Lugh 139 »
The German government says the Middle East War has caused it to accelerate its plans to go 100% renewable, and phase out all fossil fuel use. All fossil fuel use to be eliminated within 20 years. (www.dw.com)
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Waymo now gives 13- to 17-year-olds robotaxis in Nashville, where car crashes are the leading cause of death for ages 15 to 24. Is this the first generation to skip driving tests? (techcrunch.com) 23 Lugh 88 »
AI almost triggered a US-China confrontation when a chatbot falsely claimed a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear material to Iran. (edition.cnn.com) 4 Lugh 28 »
Nanoscale mechanics could enable brain-inspired computing: A new device uses reconfigurable motion to mimic the firing behavior of a neuron, which could lead to more efficient computing. (news.mit.edu) 0 Lugh 15 »
Underwater Solar Panels Prove Possible with New Perovskite Cells (www.extremetech.com) 1 Lugh 7 »
‘Smart’ Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA Directly to Tumors in New Cancer Therapy. (www.wired.com) 5 RewindAgain 79 »
Closed Source AI released their best model: GPT-6 Astra. That same week a Chinese Open-Source model was at 98% of its capability, but at 1% of the cost. 0 Lugh 32 »
Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists. Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress. (greenfuturessolutions.com) 0 Lugh 22 »
AI Is Assisting Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure (newsletter.safe.ai) 2 Lugh 5 »
Robots protest in Poland over AI regulation concerns (www.aljazeera.com) 0 sabreW4K3 14 »
XPeng starts IRON humanoid robot production as Tesla Optimus stalls (electrek.co) 2 sabreW4K3 5 »
GLP-1 drugs extended mice’s lives by 12%. If humans respond similarly, that could mean nearly 9 extra years of life—and a huge shock to pensions, Social Security and healthcare. (www.nature.com) 10 Lugh 26 »
OpenAI announces new slop generator GPT-6 Astra: Unfortunately it isn't any better than previous slop generators (openai.com) 1 potato_lemon 13 »
GPT-6 Astra reaches and surpasses human-level performance on ARC-AGI-3 with a memory harness, but still at 1000x the cost - ARC Prize Foundation (arcprize.org) 6 brianpeiris -11 »
China's oil consumption has fallen 9% since the Middle East War started, evidence the conflict is accelerating the end of the Fossil Fuel Age. (www.carbonbrief.org) 2 RewindAgain 62 »
The Middle East War has severely affected global fertilizer supplies. The good news - gene-edited nitrogen fixing microbes to replace it are commercializing. 0 Lugh 8 »
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