Mass production of robots and AI agents—and massive new pressure on human workers—are set to happen in 2025.
Category: 7 January 2025
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DOLLAR INDEX REACHES TWO-YEAR HIGH AHEAD OF TRUMP INAUGURATION
On 2 January, the U.S. dollar index rose 0.8 percent in intraday trading against an assortment of other currencies, reaching its highest mark since November 2022.
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WHAT WE FORECAST IN EARLY 2023: NEW WSJ PIECE SAYS IP INFRINGEMENT SPELLS BIG PROBLEMS FOR AI
Big Tech AI companies spent 2024 trying to convince the world that AI was safe, and would lead to a new age of human advancement and prosperity.
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THE TECHNOLOGY OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH
These past weeks have served as a cautionary tale that there are no corporate guardians or “saviors” of free speech rights.
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BOSTON START-UP ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL FUSION-BASED POWER PLANT
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a start-up founded by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it will build a commercial, fusion-based power plant in Virginia that is slated to begin producing electricity early in the next decade.
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TRICKING CANCER CELLS INTO BECOMING NORMAL AGAIN
Killing cancer cells with chemicals and radiation can be grueling for the patient and have nasty, long-lasting side effects. So what if you could persuade those same cancer cells just to be normal again?
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ARTIFICIAL NEURON WORKS AT LIGHT SPEED
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created an artificial neuron on a chip that uses a laser to fully mimic the functions of the neurons in our brains but does so a billion times faster.
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NEXT VERSION OF CHAT-GPT WILL COST “BILLIONS” TO BUILD, CFO SAYS
The greatest barrier to a new, more powerful version of OpenAI’s iconic Chat-GPT is not technical but financial, CFO Sarah Friar said in a Bloomberg interview.
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SOFTBANK TEASES $100 MILLION INVESTMENT IN U.S. AI BY 2029
Softbank, Japan’s venture capital colossus, has slated a $100-million investment in the U.S. AI industry on hopes that the incoming Trump administration will accelerate the industry’s growth and dissemination.
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FED OFFICIAL FORECASTS PRODUCTIVITY BOOM, THANKS TO AI
As a young economist in the late 1990s at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Mary Daly identified factors that soon led to a surge in U.S. economic productivity.
