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Electric vehicles will crush fossil cars on price as lithium and battery prices fall (thedriven.io)
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Peter Diamandis Predicts 'Millions, Then Billions' of Humanoid Robots Are Coming (www.inc.com)
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Nvidia researcher Dr. Jim Fan announced he is co-founding a new research group named GEAR, aimed at building AI foundation agents spanning multimodal LLMs, general purpose robots, and more. (research.nvidia.com)
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A new study from the Mozilla Foundation warns that AI romance chatbots pose privacy risks, collect sensitive user data, and may foster unhealthy behaviors. (foundation.mozilla.org)
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Can we drill for hydrogen? New find suggests additional geological source. (arstechnica.com)
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“Corolla killer:” BYD launches $US15,000 sedan EV with 420 km range in direct attack on legacy makers (thedriven.io)
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Swarms of AI "killer robots" are the future of war: If that sounds scary, it should (www.salon.com)
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China's hyperloop maglev train has achieved the fastest speed ever for a train at 623 km/h, as it prepares to test at up to 1,000 km/h in a 60km long hyperloop test tunnel. (robbreport.com)
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In animal testing researchers at Columbia University have successfully delivered an mRNA treatment for lung cancer via a nebulizer. (www.nature.com)
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Tyler Perry has halted a 12 sound stage $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio because of OpenAI's Sora and says a lot of film industry jobs will be lost because of it. (www.theguardian.com)
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An international group of researchers have discovered a new phase of matter called Non-Abelian Topological Order, which may open a new route to dramatically more effective quantum computers. (thequantuminsider.com)
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Can new legislation protect us from the companies building tech to read our minds? (www.vox.com)
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Drilling operations at Fervo’s Cape Station in Utah show a 70% year-over-year reduction in drilling times and pave the way for rapid geothermal deployment (fervoenergy.com)
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The rapid adoption of EVs is forcing China to explore Virtual Power Plants. These integrate people's batteries into the national grid and allow them to sell electricity at times of high demand. (www.technologyreview.com)
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Chinese automaker Xpeng to invest half a billion dollars to progress its current Level 4 self-driving tech to fully self-driving robo-cars. (www.cnbc.com)
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Why we need DNA data drives - We’re rapidly running out of storage space, but DNA is a surprisingly viable option. (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Only real people, not AI, can patent inventions, US government says | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
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The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed (www.newscientist.com)
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University of Pennsylvania researchers say their photonic chip that uses light instead of electricity, can radically cut down the energy consumption of AI and is commercially available for use now. (www.eurekalert.org)
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Meta has released V-JEPA, which they say is a step towards self-learning AGI. (ai.meta.com)
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Experts call for new economic modeling to meet energy transition ambition. Policymakers navigating the energy transition has surpassed the capacity of existing economic modeling for the first time. (techxplore.com)
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The EU’s tough new moderation rules are about to cover a lot more of the internet. (www.theverge.com)
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A massive US solar panel maker just went all in on panel recycling [update] (electrek.co)
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The integration of generative AI directly into word processors will give rise to a new, acceptable form of synthesized AI-human writing and universities are not prepared. (generativehistory.substack.com)
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Google says its new Gemini 1.5 is the most powerful AI, eclipsing GPT-4 Turbo (analyticsindiamag.com)
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