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Navigating The Deep Tech Industrial Revolution with Chuck Brooks.

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Chuck Brooks got his start in cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, as one of the organization’s first hires. He has worked in Congress and other agencies, as well as large companies and cybersecurity firms. He uses experiences to teach students at Georgetown University how to manage change, including the kind posed by quantum tech. In this podcast episode, Chuck and host Veronica Combs discuss digital security threats and how to use AI.

🎧 Tune in here: https://lnkd.in/gMkTjuE6

Synthetic neuroscience grants promote transformative brain tech

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Sarafan ChEM-H, and Stanford Bio-X have awarded $1.24 million in grants to five innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research projects at the intersection of neuroscience and synthetic biology.

The emerging field of synthetic neuroscience aims to leverage the precision tools of synthetic biology — like gene editing, protein engineering, and the design of biological circuits — to manipulate and understand neural systems at unprecedented levels. By creating custom-made biological components and integrating them with neural networks, synthetic neuroscience offers new ways to explore brain function, develop novel therapies for neurological disorders, and even design biohybrid systems that could one day allow brains to interface seamlessly with technology.

“The ongoing revolution in synthetic biology is allowing us to create powerful new molecular tools for biological science and clinical translation,” said Kang Shen, Vincent V.C. Woo Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. “With these awards, we wanted to bring the Stanford neuroscience community together to capitalize on this pivotal moment, focusing the power of cutting-edge synthetic biology on advancing our understanding of the nervous system — and its potential to promote human health and wellbeing.”

NVIDIA Partners With Mistral AI to Accelerate New Family of Open Models

Today, Mistral AI announced the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms.

Mistral Large 3 is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model — i nstead of firing up every neuron for every token, it only activates the parts of the model with the most impact. The result is efficiency that delivers scale without waste, accuracy without compromise and makes enterprise AI not just possible, but practical.

Mistral AI’s new models deliver industry-leading accuracy and efficiency for enterprise AI. It will be available everywhere, from the cloud to the data center to the edge, starting Tuesday, Dec. 2.

Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2025: Professor Roman V. Yampolskiy

The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.

This year’s winner is Professor Roman V. Yampolskiy. Roman coined the term “AI safety” in a 2011 publication titled * Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering: Why Machine Ethics Is a Wrong Approach*, presented at the Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is recognized as a founding researcher in the field.

Roman is known for his groundbreaking work on AI containment, AI safety engineering, and the theoretical limits of artificial intelligence controllability. His research has been cited by over 10,000 scientists and featured in more than 1,000 media reports across 30 languages.

Watch his interview on * The Diary of a CEO* at [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclrVWafRAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclrVWafRAI) that has already received over 11 million views on YouTube alone. The Singularity has begun, please pay attention to what Roman has to say about it!

Professor Roman V. Yampolskiy who coined the term “AI safety” is winner of the 2025 Guardian Award.

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Open-source framework enables addition of AI to software without prompt engineering

Developers can now integrate large language models directly into their existing software using a single line of code, with no manual prompt engineering required. The open-source framework, known as byLLM, automatically generates context-aware prompts based on the meaning and structure of the program, helping developers avoid hand-crafting detailed prompts, according to a conference paper presented at the SPLASH conference in Singapore in October 2025 and published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.

“This work was motivated by watching developers spend an enormous amount of time and effort trying to integrate AI models into applications,” said Jason Mars, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at U-M and co-corresponding author of the study.

Mixture of Experts Powers the Most Intelligent Frontier AI Models, Runs 10x Faster on NVIDIA Blackwell NVL72

“With GB200 NVL72 and Together AI’s custom optimizations, we are exceeding customer expectations for large-scale inference workloads for MoE models like DeepSeek-V3,” said Vipul Ved Prakash, cofounder and CEO of Together AI. “The performance gains come from NVIDIA’s full-stack optimizations coupled with Together AI Inference breakthroughs across kernels, runtime engine and speculative decoding.”

This performance advantage is evident across other frontier models.

Kimi K2 Thinking, the most intelligent open-source model, serves as another proof point, achieving 10x better generational performance when deployed on GB200 NVL72.

Second Variety (FULL audiobook) by Philip K. Dick

Second Variety audiobook.
by Philip K. Dick (1928 — 1982)

First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953. “The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace—if it could!” When future war becomes so horrific that humans turn to machines and computers to design ways to kill each other strange things may happen. And do in this classic Philip K. Dick story!(summary from the story blurb and Phil Chenevert)

Tesla Optimus running test sets new lab record

Tesla has released a new clip of its Optimus humanoid robot running inside a lab. The video comes from the official Optimus account on X and Elon Musk shared it with his followers soon after. The robot jogs past other units in the background and keeps a steady pace on the lab floor.

Also, The team said that they had set a new personal record in the lab. Musk also stressed the internal record had been broken, which puts fresh attention on how far the project has moved in a short time.

Just set a new PR in the lab pic.twitter.com/8kJ2om7uV7 — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 2, 2025

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