NASA has just pulled off a breakthrough that could change space communication forever. A deep-space laser transmission has traveled an astonishing distance, surpassing anything done before.
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How Crunchbase AI Is Forecasting Unicorns With 95% Accuracy
In today’s AI news, Crunchbase, long known as a go-to platform for company data, has relaunched as an AI-powered solution, revolutionizing how investors, founders, and innovators gain insights into private companies. Moving beyond historical data, the new Crunchbase introduces live, predictive intelligence, providing a real-time, forward-looking view of the market. Users can now anticipate funding rounds, acquisitions, and even IPO’s.
In other advancements, EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company that builds eco-friendly data centers used by major compute providers to handle their AI traffic, has raised nearly half a billion dollars — $478 million (€450 million) to be exact — in anticipation of more demand. The equity funding, which is coming from a group of unnamed institutional investors, will be used to continue developing new technologies for more “green” data centers.
Meanwhile, we still didn’t get a straight-up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile World Congress fireside chat in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Sierra founder and OpenAI board chair preferred to sidestep CNN moderator Anna Stewart’s question asking how “agentic AI” is “any different to a GenAI chatbot” by suggesting everyone hates the former but is delighted by the “empathetic” responses AI agents can serve up.
And, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence, also known as AGI. The paper, titled “Superintelligence Strategy,” asserts that an aggressive bid by the U.S. to exclusively control superintelligent AI systems could prompt fierce retaliation from China.
In videos, as we join this episode of the Lightcone podcast we find CEO, Garry Tan and the team talking about how Andrej Karpathy recently coined the term “vibe coding” to describe how LLMs are getting so good that devs can simply “give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” They dive into this new way of programming and what it means for builders in the age of AI.
S Matthew Miller at Bloomberg Invest.” + And, “there are no authorities in science,” says A.M. Turing Award winner Richard S. Sutton. In this exclusive conversation, Amii Chief Scientific Advisor Richard S. Sutton and Amii CEO Cam Linke discuss the breakthroughs that shaped Reinforcement Learning, the journey to this moment, and what’s next for the future of artificial intelligence.
We close out with, learning to use LangGraph, JavaScript, and tools like Next.js and wxflows, from IBM’s Roy Derks, to automate transcription. Discover how to integrate open-source models like Ollama to power your AI agent.
Scientists create world’s first boron-carbon triple bond in history
German chemists have created the first-ever boron-carbon triple bond which opens new possibilities for molecular innovation.
The Connectome: The Herculean Task of Modeling a Brain
Unravel the mysteries of the human brain with this captivating video! Discover the incredible complexity of neurons, explore the quest for a connectome, and dive into the challenges and potential breakthroughs in understanding the human mind.
Scientists Just Cracked the Code to Supercharge Quantum Networks
Caltech engineers have made a breakthrough in quantum communication by successfully linking two quantum nodes with multiple qubits.
Using a novel multiplexing technique, they drastically increased the data transmission rate, setting the stage for large-scale quantum networks.
Laying the groundwork for quantum networks.
Is This the Future? Japanese Scientists Create Living Robots with Human Skin! Joe Rogan Experience
Discover the groundbreaking advancements in robotics as Annie Jacobsen and Joe Rogan discuss a startling innovation: a robot made from living human skin. This fascinating creation not only smiles but raises ethical questions about the future of artificial humans. How close are we to creating a fully artificial person? Join the conversation about the implications of these technologies, especially in countries with different regulations. Don’t miss this eye-opening discussion!
Living robot skin
In a scientific breakthrough, Japanese scientists have found a way to attach artificially created living skin to robot faces for more realistic smiles and facial expressions.
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Reality is not revealed by quantum mechanics
“According to Hooke, microscopes, like telescopes, put us on the cusp of doing what philosophers from Antiquity onwards had always tried to do, namely, understand the fundamental nature of reality,” writes assistant professor in philosophy, Peter West.
The idea that we can discover the fundamental level of reality might be alluring, but it’s based on a faulty philosophy, not science, argues Peter West.
Tap to read more about his beliefs that reality is not revealed by quantum mechanics.
The craze with all things quantum is not just because of its inherent weirdness. It’s motivated by a reductionist impulse that has been animating science from Robert Hooke in the 17th century to Stephen Hawking in the 21st. The idea that we can discover the fundamental level of reality might be alluring, but it’s based on a faulty philosophy, not science, writes Peter West.
The idea that reality is reducible to its most fundamental parts still animates much of science, particularly physics and philosophy. The craze with all things quantum is partly animated by this thought: understand quantum mechanics, the way that matter behaves at the smallest level known to us, and you’ve understood everything. But this philosophical impulse — because contrary to belief, it’s not scientific — that the microscopic holds the key to the secrets of the universe, is much older than quantum mechanics. It goes back at least all the way to the 17th century and the invention of the microscope. Some of the best critiques of reductionism also date from the same century: Size doesn’t matter, the very small is just one realm of reality among many, with no special privilege.
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