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Eli Mohamad & Kai Micah Mills — Advancing Frontiers Of Cryopreservation & Biological Replacement

Biological replacement and cryopreservation to significantly extend human lifespans — eli mohamad & kai micah mills — hydradao and cryodao.

Eli Mohamad is a prominent figure in the biotech, space, and AI industries who has co-founded several successful startups and has a real passion for groundbreaking ventures that focus on the development of futuristic technologies.

Currently as a Core Team Member at CryoDAO (https://www.cryodao.org/), a decentralized organization focused on sourcing and funding research in cryopreservation, Eli continues to work at the forefront of innovative technologies and applies his extensive experience in biotechnology and innovative projects to advance novel cryopreservation technologies and their various applications, from critical tissue and organ preservation, to cryo-sleep and suspended animation for space exploration.

Eli has also been involved in setting up another decentralized organization called HydraDAO (https://hydradao.org/) which is focused on funding and incubating biological replacement research to significantly extend human lifespan and will be looking at everything from Limb Regeneration, Organ Bioprinting and Xenotransplantation, to Progressive Brain Replacement, head/brain transplants, and even whole body replacement via non sentient cloning.

Throughout his career, Eli has held various leadership positions in cutting-edge companies including as Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at X-Therma Inc., a company focused on complex tissue preservation; Advisor and Chief Business Officer at Rimac Automobili, working on high-performance electric vehicles; CFO/CBO at Insilico Medicine, Inc., as well as Co-founder of Organ Preservation Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to the future of organ banking, Orphidia Ltd., a medical diagnostics company, and Walkmore, a data science company.

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Wanted: Humans to build robots for OpenAI — and not everyone is thrilled

Following the disbanding and reinstating of OpenAI’s robotics department over the past years and reports of OpenAI building its own robot, a series of new job listings on the robotics team suggest the company is finally ready to leap into hardware.

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Last Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in November to lead the robotics and consumer hardware team, shared the first OpenAI Robotics hardware roles via an X post. These job postings include an EE Sensing Engineer, Robotics Mechanical Design Engineer, and TPM Manager.

Robotic sea turtle could soon be swimming in an ocean near you

If you’re setting out to build an underwater robot that’s speedy, maneuverable and versatile, why not just copy what already works in the natural world? That’s exactly what China’s Beatbot has done, with its bio-inspired Amphibious RoboTurtle.

Unveiled in prototype form last week at CES, the autonomous robot is designed for applications including ecological research, environmental monitoring, and disaster response.

As such, it can be equipped with hardware such as a water sampling unit, GPS module, ultrasonic sensors, and AI-enabled cameras. The latter reportedly allow it to perceive and react to changes in its environment, and to autonomously track/follow marine animals.

Macquarie To Invest Up To $5 Billion In Applied Digital AI Data Centers

In today’s AI news, Macquarie will invest up to $5 billion in data centers being built by artificial-intelligence infrastructure company Applied Digital, adding to the Australian bank’s substantial AI-related investments.

And, President Joe Biden will issue an executive order on Tuesday to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, the White House said.

The order calls for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities — to address enormous power needs on a short time frame.

Then, Microsoft is creating a new engineering group that’s focused on artificial intelligence. Led by former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh, the new CoreAI – Platform and Tools division will combine Microsoft’s Dev Div and AI platform teams together to focus on building an AI platform and tools.

S strategy to enhance its AI capabilities across hybrid cloud environments.” + In videos, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy announces a new “upskill” initiative on AI as they work to address a global skills shortage. He joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Technology” to discuss the companies investment in educating people on AI skills.

Then Eleven Labs’ Louis Jordan demonstrates a conversational AI voice agent that can be integrated with Stripe to promote purchases, issue refunds, apply coupons and credits as well as many other payment related transactions with customers. Louis remarks that this is the future of in-app customer service.

And, did you know the U.S. nurse labor market is over $600 billion annually, but the dedicated software market for nurses is almost zero? In this episode, a16z General Partners Alex Rampell, David Haber, and Angela Strange discuss how AI is revolutionizing labor by automating tasks traditionally done by humans.

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Quantum computers get automatic error correction for the first time

A tiny cooling device can automatically reset malfunctioning components of a quantum computer. Its performance suggests that manipulating heat could also enable other autonomous quantum devices.

Quantum computers aren’t yet fully practical because they make too many errors. In fact, if qubits – key components of this type of computer – accidentally heat up and become too energetic, they can end up in an erroneous state before the calculation even begins. One way to “reset” the qubits to their correct states is to cool them down.

Image: chalmers university of technology, lovisa håkansson.

A tiny quantum “refrigerator” can ensure that a quantum computer’s calculations start off error-free – without requiring oversight or even new hardware.

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Adobe’s new bulk AI image tool can edit thousands of images in seconds

Adobe has added numerous features to its Firefly GenAI suite since its introduction in 2023. The latest update enables companies to adjust images in bulk – and when they say bulk they are claiming by the thousands, if necessary. Known as Firefly Bulk Create, this tool aims to accelerate advertising and messaging campaigns by making image alterations more efficient. While some critics worry that this technology might erode human artistry in advertising, Adobe’s press release promotes the new tools as a means to cut through tedious work.