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I just saw “Companion” which is set in a world about 20 years in the future and it was the first movie in quite a while that had a solid plot. I find most movies pretty frustrating as they focus on special effects instead of a coherent plot.

The less you know before you see the movie, the better. Avoiding the trailer is recommended.


Companion: Directed by Drew Hancock. With Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri. A weekend getaway with friends at a remote cabin turns into chaos after it’s revealed that one of the guests is not what they seem.

In today’s AI news, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and other leading social media platforms, is looking to raise as much as $35 Billion to build data centers in the US. Apollo Global Management Inc., an alternative asset manager has discussed providing a major part of the financing, said the people, who asked not to be identified. KKR & Co. is also a part of the investor group.

In other advancements, With so much software now getting written by AI, having a window into its security can be a challenge. That’s the premise of Archipelo, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup that is today emerging from stealth with $12 Million in funding. Archipelo’s pitch is that it has a platform for “Developer Security Posture Management” (DevSPM).

S integration with Suno, you can turn simple, creative requests into songs. ‘ + And, In its annual letter, payments giant Stripe declared that it was “seeing an AI boom” with its data, revealing that artificial intelligence startups are growing more rapidly than traditional SaaS companies have historically. In a chart, Stripe showed that the top 100 AI companies were able to achieve $5 million in annualized revenue in 24 months in 2024 compared to the top 100 SaaS companies taking 37 months.

In videos, ever wondered how to enhance your AI performance? IBM’s Susan Eickhoff shows how to boost AI performance using an ensemble of models, combining traditional AI and large language models. Learn structured data analysis and dynamic prediction methods.

And, since its launch in 2020, Project Aria has propelled research across the world to advance the state of the art in machine perception and AI, through access to cutting-edge research hardware and open-source datasets, models, and tooling. Today, Meta is excited to announce the next step in this journey: the introduction of Aria Gen 2 glasses.

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Is the key to understanding our universe hidden in its mirror image? Are the answers cosmologists seek much simpler than we think? And can we explain the origin of the universe without inflation?

Here today to share his bold new theory is the renowned physicist and cosmologist Neil Turok. Neil, who specializes in mathematical and early-universe physics, is the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh and Director Emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Recently, he’s been getting a lot of attention for proposing a simpler, more testable cosmological model that replaces inflation with a CPT-symmetric Mirror Universe, explaining dark matter, cosmic flatness, and density variations without adding unnecessary complexity.

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Microsoft have announced a quantum breakthrough – the Majorana 1 chip. But what is it and what does it really mean for the future of quantum computing?

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This is the prophesied follow-up to my fastpunch through humanism, covering some 20th century reactions to humanist thought. I hypothesize that we’re at something of a standoff between humanism and posthumanism, as our political and educational institutions are struggling to terms with changing technical contexts.

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Addendum: Sometimes posthumanism is confused with transhumanism, which I had planned to cover in this video but it was getting too long. Transhumanism is often humanistic in that it privileges the same capacities that humanism does–intellect, memory, progress, consciousness–and proposes that our bodies can be technologically or genetically augmented to improve these capacities in new stages of human develepment– uploading our consciousness into the cloud or staving off mortality. Posthumanists, by and large, tend to de-emphasize the supposed value of those ends in the first place, although there is some overlap.

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Concept (the Dyson Scenario), proposed by Freeman Dyson in 1979, proposes a means by which an immortal society of intelligent beings in an open universe may escape the prospect of the heat death of the universe by extending subjective time to infinity even though expending only a finite amount of energy.

Bremermann’s limit can be invoked to deduce that the amount of time to perform a computation on 1 bit is inversely proportional to the change in energy in the system. As a result, the amount of computations that can be performed grows over time. The increase in energy available slows logarithmically, but never stops. Therefore, for any specific computation rate that requires a specific amount of energy, there will come a time when that energy is available to be used.

The intelligent beings would begin by storing a finite amount of energy. They then use half (or any fraction) of this energy to power their thought. When the energy gradient created by unleashing this fraction of the stored fuel was exhausted, the beings would enter a state of zero-energy-consumption until the universe cooled. Once the universe had cooled sufficiently, half of the remaining half (one quarter of the original energy) of the intelligent beings’ fuel reserves would once again be released, powering a brief period of thought once more. This would continue, with smaller and smaller amounts of energy being released. As the universe cooled, the thoughts would be slower and slower, but there would still be an infinite number of them. In 1998 it was discovered that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating rather than decelerating due to a positive cosmological constant, implying that any two regions of the universe will eventually become permanently separated from one another. Dyson noted that \.

At the very start Aubrey claims, so long as he has the funding, he can finish the RMR in 3 years and then things take off from there. He seems to hint that the LEV prediction of 12–15 years could be thrown out and come sooner.


In this in-depth conversation, Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses his Robust Mouse Rejuvenation (RMR) studies at the LEV Foundation and why he believes we’re close to achieving the crucial RMR milestone within just three years — a breakthrough that could transform aging research forever.

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