Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, is in talks with Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japanese venture fund Softbank, to back the development of “the iPhone of artificial intelligence,” according to three people familiar who told the Financial Times.
An artificial intelligence created at Northwestern University was given a simple prompt: design a robot that can walk on a flat surface.
In the first agreement between a manufacturing company and fusion-energy research venture, Nucor—the largest steel producer in the U.S.—has formed a venture with Helion Energy, which is developing a nuclear fusion technology using water.
At Sweden’s Lund University, researchers have succeeded in growing tiny electrodes inside the brains of zebrafish and medicinal leeches. If scalable to humans, the devices could pave the road to new treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and other brain-based conditions.
At Russia’s Saratov State University, scientists were able to use light to clear away and prevent the build-up of amyloid proteins, the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, among brain cells.
Pay no heed to the circus politics coming out of Washington DC. It’s just more of the same grandstanding by tone-deaf politicians oblivious to the plight of the citizenry.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has gone from hero to zero in the space of a few months. The mélange of Western military equipment, from tanks to missiles, in the hands of courageous but unprepared and poorly led Ukrainian conscripts has failed to improve Ukrainian battlefield performance.
In one of our Top Trends for 2023, we warned of a Middle East Meltdown. Since that time, as we have reported extensively and now it is right in front of everyone’s eyes, the Middle East is melting down.
The world today is in crisis, a liquidity crisis of unimaginable proportions.
The entire world financial system is rapidly becoming illiquid, it is running out of cash. Yes, despite the world today being overrun with ever growing debt, it is running out of cash—fast.
The 20-country Eurozone’s economy contracted in this year’s third quarter, according to a purchasing managers index (PMI) compiled by S&P Global for the Hamburg Commercial Bank (HBOC).