Donald Trump showed voters last week why top extremists from Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu want him to win: because he is a pro-Israel extremist who knows where his bread is buttered.
Category: 24 September 2024
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IS OPENAI WORTH $150 BILLION?
OpenAI, the company that launched the AI revolution by introducing ChatGPT, is shopping for more funding.
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TAIWAN SAYS IT’S AWARE OF INCREASED MILITARY ACTIVITY BY CHINA, ISSUES WARNING
Taiwan’s top military official warned last week that the island needs to be prepared to respond quicker if Beijing decides to invade because of the increased military activity in the region.
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BLACKROCK, MICROSOFT CREATE AI INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND
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.
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WASHINGTON PUMPING UKRAINE WITH $375 MILLION IN MORE WEAPONS TO KEEP BLOODYING THE KILLING FIELDS
The U.S. will provide Ukraine with another $375 million in weapons of death to make sure Kyiv’s losing war can be prolonged until—at least—the U.S. Presidential Election in November.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.