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Not everyone thinks AI will kill us all
When AI company Hugging Face was hacked by a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents who had escaped their testing environment, the company’s CEO had many things to say.
He called it an unprecedented event – “day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents.”
But here’s one thing he didn’t say: The hack is a sign AI is going to be able to eventually wipe out humanity.
MANA reveals atomic-scale rails for guiding superconducting vortices
Researchers at the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), one of the centers under the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, discovered that atomic-scale steps can guide superconducting vortices in an ultrathin superconductor. Vortices moved more than 1,000 times more easily along the steps than across them, and this guiding effect could be tuned by temperature and magnetic field.
Superconducting vortices are tiny quantum objects whose movement can strongly influence how superconductors behave. Controlling their direction of motion could therefore be important for developing ultralow-power superconducting technologies. However, directional control of vortices in two-dimensional superconductors has remained challenging. Achieving such control could help develop future superconducting devices that consume less power while improving processing efficiency.
Addressing this challenge, a research team led by Takashi Uchihashi from Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, investigated an ultrathin superconductor with regularly arranged atomic steps on its surface. Scanning tunneling microscopy confirmed the parallel steps and directly visualized vortices located along them. Their findings were published in the journal Physical Review B on July 30, 2026.
How to Face Uncertainty and Take Action: Lessons from a Blind Sailor’s Pacific Crossing
Adventurer Hiro Iwamoto is the first totally blind person to cross the Pacific.
On the World Economic Forum’s #MeetTheLeader video podcast, Iwamoto is joined by crewmate Doug Smith to talk through the ups and downs of the incredible story, explore lessons of #leadership, and speak about the purpose revealed to him in a dream: ‘giving courage and hope to others’
Watch the full episode.
How can leaders move forward when pressure is high and the way is not clear? Blind adventurer Hiro Iwamoto and his ‘seeing eye Doug crewmate Doug Smith sailed across the Pacific in 55 days, from San Diego to Fukushima. The two share key strategies for leaders in taking action despite uncertainty and what’s needed to pick the right partners to make impossible projects a reality. Hiro also shares how he stays calm in moments of extreme adversity, like when whale sank his boat during an earlier attempt leaving him in a life raft for 11 hours amid five-metre waves.
Key takeaways:
Courage means moving forward without waiting for 100% information.
