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Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data-and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown.

As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight and water,” Heritable wrote.

Yet agriculture puts a massive strain on the planet and its resources, accounting for around 25% of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions. It’s the planet’s largest consumer of groundwater and can lead to soil erosion and water pollution via pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals.

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A new startup in Canada wants to build the first “conscious” artificial intelligence using quantum computing. What’s their definition of consciousness? Well, it’s based on Roger Penrose’s ideas about consciousness, ORCH-OR. I find this rather confusing because Penrose thinks that consciousness is not computable, so how are we now going to compute it?

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From plastic eating worms to robot bees – scientific and technological advancements could be what saves our planet, and us, from extinction.

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Rayno folded up the microterm and tucked it back inside his jumper.’ — Bruce Bethke, 1983.

Automatic Bot Traffic Is 38 Percent Of HTTP Requests ‘there were so many worms and counterworms loose in the data-net…’ — John Brunner, 1975.

Neuroplatform Human Brain Organoid Bioprocessor Uses Less Electricity ‘Cultured brains on a slab.’- Peter Watts, 1999.

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“Let’s say a certain protein is expressed very highly in a cell. But when you actually look at it and see it, all of it is localised at the tip of the neuron where something very specific is happening,” he added.

Hassabis also stated that this could be crucial for understanding how a cell reacts to the injection of a specific nutrient or drug. At present, this process is carried out ‘painstakingly’ in a laboratory, but according to him, this project would enable researchers to perform it a million times faster and at a lower cost.

However, he noted that a laboratory would still be required as a final step to validate the predictions and conduct clinical trials to assess the efficacy of the research. Hassabis mentioned that the virtual cell project may materialise within five years from now.

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In today’s AI news, In what would be the largest-ever investment in a startup, Masayoshi Son is preparing to put as much as $43 billion toward Sam Altman’s OpenAI in a pair of transactions. SoftBank is in talks to invest between $15 billion and $25 billion in the ChatGPT maker as part of a blockbuster $40 billion funding round, valuing OpenAI at up to $300 billion.

In other advancements, On Friday, Governor Phil Murphy and Princeton University President Micros released a statement announcing that Microsoft and CoreWeave, the cloud infrastructure company, are joining as founding partners of the NJ AI Hub. Jointly, the partners and the state of New Jersey are expected to invest over $72M.

And, Toronto-based bitcoin miner Bitfarms has enlisted two consultants to explore how it can transform some of its facilities to meet the growing demand for AI data centers. Appleby Strategy Group and World Wide Technology, will analyze its North American sites. They will also advise the company on its computing and AI strategy, while marketing the sites to potential customers.

Then, Link Ventures’ John Werner provides a sneak peek of Google’s Notebook LM running on Gemini 2. He shares a Google blog where Sundar Pichai and others are explaining the building of this agentic technology, they’re talking about “native tool use.” That means that AI entities are going to be able to use tools in the same ways as humans do.

S Tarnopol Dean’s Lecture Series, tech visionary and co-founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman joined Dean Erika James to discuss the profound implications of an AI-powered future. Drawing from his book, Superagency, Hoffman presented a roadmap for harnessing AI to empower individuals, and drive societal progress. + Meanwhile, human potential will only accelerate with AI answering questions better and faster than ever before, says Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of conversational search engine Perplexity. He examines the trends driving new AI-powered tools that nourish curiosity and creativity — and how they might usher in a new era of intellectual growth and discovery.

And, in this episode of AI Academy, learn from Hillary Hunter, CTO of IBM Infrastructure, how your existing technology, as part of a hybrid cloud by design architecture, can be the engine that powers your AI strategy and gets your business where it needs to go.

We close out with, Nate B. Jones saying that DeepSeek has amassed 50,000 Nvidia Hopper-class GPUs, raising concerns about its ability to bypass U.S. export restrictions. The FBI is investigating potential illegal GPU exports via Singapore, which could trigger tighter regulations.

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A Chinese company just created an AI model as powerful as ChatGPT for only $5M — causing NVIDIA’s stock to plummet 17%.

But there’s a darker story I believe nobody’s talking about…

In this deep dive, we uncover:

-How DeepSeek R1 matches OpenAI’s performance at a fraction of the cost.
–Why NVIDIA’s stock crash doesn’t tell the full story.
–Exclusive insights from an FAA data scientist about concerning patterns.
–Critical privacy risks that are being overlooked.
–The strategic implications for US-China AI competition.
–Trump’s emergency declaration and the $1.1B Texas AI facility.

Plus: Breaking down the real risks of using \.

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The idea of creating machines that can think and act like humans is smoothly transforming from fiction to reality. Humanoid robots, digital humans, ChatGPT, and unmanned cars — today there are many applications driven by artificial intelligence that surpass humans in speed, accuracy, efficiency and tirelessness. But only in narrow areas so far.
And yet, this gives us hope to see a real miracle in the near future — artificial intelligence equal or superior to human intelligence in all parameters!
Can AI compare with us? Surpass us? Replace us? Deceive us and pursue its own goals? Today we will tell you how a miracle of nature such as the human brain differs from the main technology of the 21st century — artificial intelligence, and what prospects we have with AI in the future!

The journey of artificial intelligence (AI) is a captivating saga, dating back to 1956 when John McCarthy coined the term at a Dartmouth conference. Through the ensuing decades, AI witnessed three significant booms. Between the 1950s-70s, pioneers introduced groundbreaking neural perception networks and chat software. Though they foresaw AI surpassing human capabilities in a decade, this dream remained unfulfilled. By the 1980s, the second wave took shape, propelled by new machine learning techniques and neural networks, which promised innovations like speech recognition. Yet, many of these promises fell short.

But the tide turned in 2006. Deep learning emerged, and by 2016, AI systems like AlphaGo were defeating world champions. The third boom began, reinforced by large language models like ChatGPT, igniting discussions about amalgamating AI with humanoid robots. Discover more about this fascinating trend in our linked issue.

Our progress in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, quantum physics, and brain research has heavily influenced AI’s trajectory. Especially significant is our understanding of the human brain, pushing the boundaries of neural network development. Can AI truly emulate human cognition?

To understand this, we must comprehend neural networks, computer algorithms mimicking human brain functions. These virtual networks comprise \.

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Discover how the Chinese startup DeepSeek is revolutionizing AI with its groundbreaking models! In this video, we dive into the journey of Liang Wenfeng, the innovative mind behind DeepSeek, and explore how their latest model, DeepSeek-V3, outperforms industry giants using surprisingly basic hardware. Learn about their unique approach to talent acquisition, the significance of open-source development, and how they are democratizing access to advanced AI technology. Join us as we analyze the impact of DeepSeek on the global AI landscape and what it means for the future of artificial intelligence. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more insights on AI breakthroughs!

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