The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you at this time’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.
1 Elon Musk has turned on Trump
He known as Trump’s home coverage agenda a “disgusting abomination.” (NYT $)
+ Home Speaker Mike Johnson has, naturally, hit again. (Insider $)
2 NASA is in disaster
Its finances has been lower by 1 / 4, and now its new chief has had his nomination revoked. (New Scientist $)
+ What’s subsequent for NASA’s big moon rocket? (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
3 Right here’s how Huge Tech plans to wield AI
To construct ‘every little thing apps’ that preserve you inside their ecosystem, perpetually. (The Atlantic $)
+ The difficulty is, the expertise isn’t at all times slick sufficient, as Google has found with its ‘Ask Images’ characteristic. (The Verge $)
+ Methods to combat your intuition to blindly belief AI. (WP $)
4 Meta has signed a 20-year deal to purchase nuclear energy
It’s the newest in a race to attempt to sustain with AI’s surging vitality calls for. (ABC)
+ Can nuclear energy actually gas the rise of AI? (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
5 Excessive warmth takes an enormous toll on individuals’s psychological well being
It’s one more situation we’re failing to arrange for, as summers get hotter and warmer. (Scientific American $)
+ The hunt to guard farmworkers from excessive warmth. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
6 China’s robotaxi corporations are planning to broaden within the Center East
And so they’re getting a hotter welcome than within the US or Europe. (WSJ $)
+ China’s EV giants are additionally betting massive on humanoid robots. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
7 AI will supercharge hackers
The total affect of recent AI strategies is but to be felt, however consultants say it’s solely a matter of time. (Wired $)
+ 5 methods criminals are utilizing AI. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
8 It’s an thrilling time to be engaged on Alzheimer’s therapies 💊
12 of them are shifting to the ultimate part of medical trials this 12 months. (The Economist $)
+ The innovation that will get an Alzheimer’s drug by way of the blood-brain barrier. (MIT Know-how Evaluate)
9 Employees are being subjected to increasingly surveillance
Not simply within the gig economic system both—’bossware’ is more and more showing in places of work too. (Remainder of World)
10 Noughties nostalgia is rife on TikTok
It was a fairly enjoyable decade, to be truthful. (The Guardian)