Blackrock, the world’s richest private equity firm, and Microsoft are part of a group that has created an investment fund to build data centers and energy supplies to meet AI’s exploding infrastructure needs.
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U.K. POLL FINDS 70 PERCENT WANT TOUGH LAWS ON AI
More than 70 percent of the 2,000 respondents in a British OnePoll survey want stricter laws controlling AI, specifically to slow down the breakneck pace of advances.
“VIRTUAL LAB” RUNS THOUSANDS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH A FEW CLICKS
There are millions of genetic mutations whose effects are unknown. Some might have therapeutic benefits. Weeding through them all to find out which ones have value could take millions of hours of lab work.
NEW TECH LETS YOU LITERALLY READ A PERSON’S THOUGHTS
The Miniaturized Brain-Machine Interface (MiBMI) from EPFL, Switzerland’s university of technology, is an electronic chip smaller than a postage stamp but can gather signals from 512 of the brain’s information channels simultaneously.
A CHEAPER WAY TO HARVEST MORE LITHIUM FROM WASTEWATER
Battery producers are scrambling to tie down supplies of lithium, the metal at the heart of mobile technologies. By some estimates, demand for lithium will quadruple from 2022 through 2029, while new mines face delays put up by regulators and environmentalists.
BALD NO MORE? NATURAL SUGAR REGROWS HAIR ON MICE
For the 50 percent or more of men who will see their hair disappearing down the shower drain at some point, researchers at the University of Sheffield and Pakistan’s COMSATS University have promising news: a sugar present in humans and animals seems to regrow hair.
THE GOVERNMENT LIES JUST KEEP ON COMING
The Framers of the United States Constitution understood several things very clearly from their experience as a colonial vassal state with only limited legislative or self-governing authority under the rule of Britain’s King George III.
WHY IS LOW BLOOD CHOLESTEROL ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED LATE LIFE MORTALITY?
Low cholesterol levels are associated with increased mortality risk in older adults, challenging the "lower is better" paradigm.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
On 20 September, gold surpassed $2,600 for the first time after the U.S. Federal Reserve reduced its interest rates by 50 basis points two days earlier.
DON’T BET ON IT: CEOS SAY REMOTE WORK IS ENDING
Seventy-nine percent of CEOs told KPMG’s 2024 CEO Outlook Survey that remote work will largely be over within two years.