Most AIs still need human guidance to frame a problem and structure an answer. At Australia’s University of Technology Sydney, a new AI algorithm called “torque clustering” has shown an ability to find patterns in data 97.7 percent of the time without humans telling it how.
Category: 11 March 2025
U.S. ECONOMY ADDS 151,000 JOBS IN FEBRUARY; UNEMPLOYMENT TICKS UP
American businesses hired another 151,000 nonfarm employees in February and joblessness edged up from 4.0 percent in January to 4.1 last month. January’s total of new jobs was revised downward to 125,000.
OPENAI RELEASES A NEW SYSTEM TO MARK “THE END OF AN ERA”
OpenAI has premiered GPT-4.5, the eagerly awaited update to the technology powering its ChatGPT AI system.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: HUMANS WORKING OVERTIME TO CREATE THEIR AI AGENT REPLACEMENTS
Mainstream media continues to dote on the wonders of the AI Revolution, while betraying at least some qualms about whether it might be serving narrow interests and speeding massive human worker obsolescence.
HUMAN BIOLOGICAL COMMODITIZATION: “BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER” DEBUTS
Australian startup Cortical Labs is hailing a breakthrough in “organic” computing.
WRONG DATA, COSTLY CONSEQUENCES: THE LATEST IN MISGUIDED CLIMATE GOALS
A new study out of Osaka, Japan has found that the UN’s climate policy org is using faulty historic data and assumptions in fashioning radical carbon zero and other policies.
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
If the price of bitcoin were, say 135 thousand at the moment, states would probably be tripping over themselves in rushes to pass Bitcoin reserve bills.
WHAT THE NEW U.S. BITCOIN RESERVE MEANS
The U.S. now has an official Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, and a Digital Assets Stockpile, consisting of crypto tokens like Ethereum, USDT and others.
SCIENTISTS FIND A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN KIND OF BRAIN CELL
Bioscientists at the Munich campus of Germany’s Helmholtz Association research network have identified a previously unknown brain cell that could play a key role in healing brain damage.
NEARLY 60 PERCENT OF ADULTS AROUND THE WORLD WILL BE OBESE BY 2050: STUDY
A recent study in the medical journal The Lancet found that nearly 60 percent of adults around the world and one-third of children and teens will be overweight or obese in 25 years unless there is some intervention.