UBTech gears up to deliver over 1,000 humanoid robots by end of year
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humanoid robots are seen as a way to replace human labour leading to a future of “labour abundance” which could change economic of labour forever.…
Google is building its own World Modelling team to help it achieve AGI goals
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF LLM AI’s read and regurgitate text, compared to what the rest of the world has to offer that’s quite basic, so companies are building World…
Microplastic Dangers from Wind Turbines
Introduction While Trump’s original claim about wind turbines causing cancer has been widely ridiculed, the logic behind blade erosion and microplastic pollution is quite sound. Worth a quick AI investigation…
Elon Musk debuts Grok 3 as the world’s smartest AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly tech companies are in a battle to create the best AI, and even though they’re burning cash and revenues aren’t matching expectations, they keep…
StarLink Gen 3 LEO satellites will offer a whopping 1Tb speed
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As LEO satellite constellations help connect everyone and everything on Earth this is a big speed boost for the network. Love the Exponential Future?…
Senior Pentagon officials reveal new autonomous killer robot policy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It is almost inevitable that the future of warfare will be autonomous, the real question is when. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential…
Microsoft taps a new state of matter to create Majorana quantum chip
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Microsoft has been working on this for a long time, yet most people were surprised by the announcement. Go figure. Love the Exponential Future? Join…
AI designed computer chips that human experts don’t understand
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Computer chips have long been designed along common “human” guidelines, but AI doesn’t play by those rules. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential…
Tesla starts offering insurance discounts to grab extra self driving data
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Years after Elon Musk said full Self Driving would be available Tesla is now increasingly desperate for your car’s self driving data. Love the…
Anthropic releases new Economic Index report showing AI use in the workplace
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The first report of it’s kind from a major Foundation AI model developer the new report has interesting insights into who is and who is…