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Months after he's helped gut NASA's budget, Musk is to divert $2 billion from SpaceX to his Grok AI.
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Yet again, a free open-source Chinese AI has beaten all the investor-funded favorites like OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, etc.

A surgical robot has successfully completed a crucial part of a gallbladder removal surgery without any human involvement, representing a major advancement toward fully autonomous surgical procedures.

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  • It seems logical they would test it on extracted gall bladders first. Finding a gall bladder during surgery seems far from an insurmountable task for AI.

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    US researchers have developed a new technology that allows lithium to be extracted from sea water using a low-cost, scalable membrane made from clay.
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    A surgical robot has successfully completed a crucial part of a gallbladder removal surgery without any human involvement, representing a major advancement toward fully autonomous surgical procedures.
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    Utah becomes the first US state to allow consumers the freedom to install rooftop/balcony solar without the regulation that doubles its cost compared to Germany.
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    China’s maglev research program says it has achieved the highest speed ever for a maglev train - 650 km/h (about 404 mph) - beating the previous Japanese record by 47 km/h.

    A simple monthly injection allows mice to live 25% longer & free from diseases The strategy — the injection of a simple antibody — has already begun to be tested in humans in an attempt to cure ageing

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  • "our" democratically elected leaders

    You know the internet isn't just made up of Americans, right? (E.g. I'm Irish & the other 2 mods of this site are Indian & English.)

    Why not try and see developments from a global perspective?

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    A simple monthly injection allows mice to live 25% longer & free from diseases The strategy — the injection of a simple antibody — has already begun to be tested in humans in an attempt to cure ageing
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    Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs has grand ambitions to ‘solve all diseases’ with AI. Now, it’s gearing up for its first human trials.
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    Ford CEO Says Blue-Collar Workers ‘Safe’ As AI Will Replace ‘Literally Half Of All White-Collar Workers’
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    Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? - How Bruin genetic scientists are reawakening hibernating follicles.
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    Researchers in England say a non-invasive electrical scalp stimulation technique improved maths ability by over 25%.
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    Chinese researchers have rehabilitated a stroke patient's movement via a brain-computer interface in a vein in his neck.

    Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant

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  • People overestimate how much an aging population will be a burden in decades to come, because they underestimate the impact of robots.

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    New study shows aligning renewable energy targets with supportive policies would lift 193 million people out of extreme poverty
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    It’s Bulletproof, Fire-Resistant and Stronger Than Steel. It’s Superwood.
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    At the University of California, a neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech.
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    AI is doing up to 50% of the work at Salesforce, CEO Marc Benioff says
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    Another step towards a 100% human-free Ship-Store logistics network. Now a robot can unload a truck.
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    In just one month (May 2025) China's installed new solar power equaled 8% of the total US electricity capacity.
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    US scientists have successfully created lab-grown liver tissue capable of forming its own blood vessels—a breakthrough in the field of tissue engineering.
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    Google DeepMind has introduced a powerful on-device iteration of its Gemini Robotics AI model, enabling robots to operate independently of cloud connectivity for the first time.

    Amazon boss says AI will replace jobs at tech giant

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  • At least they're being honest about it.

    • Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing.

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    • In England, 90% of keyhole surgeries in the public health system to be performed by robots by 2035, government says.

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    • San Francisco based XRobotics pizza making robots, lease for $1,300 a month and can make 100 pizzas per hour.

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  • I'd guess it's the quality of the ingredients that matter, not if its robot or human put together.

    • San Francisco based XRobotics pizza making robots, lease for $1,300 a month and can make 100 pizzas per hour.

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  • Here's it in action. The dough base is pre-made.

    https://youtu.be/7eunAdUqGZA

    It looks believable to me that this might be far faster than a human.

    • Snap will launch its AR glasses called Specs next year, and these will be commercially available

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  • The Meta Quest 3 is the one I've found most appealing. Using it as a virtual desktop or entertainment screen looks genuinely useful, though shame it still looks so ungainly.

    • Snap will launch its AR glasses called Specs next year, and these will be commercially available

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  • Will these be the AR glasses that take off? This tech has been 'about to take off' for some years now.

    • Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds

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  • In fairness to them, if you are a government or economic body, trying to plan for these events, then you do need to get granular and look at things from specifics like demographics, age groups, gender and so on.

    • Women 3x More Likely to Lose Job to AI Than Men, UN Study Finds

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  • To add to the confusion when you click on the link to the report, it talks about generative AI, so it is not talking about AI as a whole. One of the biggest categories of jobs that will disappear is driving jobs and delivery jobs, thanks to self-driving tech. I'm guessing that these jobs are overwhelmingly male dominated.

    • LLM AIs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders.

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  • There's good news too. It says the AI can persuade people who hold false beliefs. Maybe it can school people who've been led into delusion bubbles by misinformation?

    • What comes after the smartphone? Smart glasses, AI companions, and brain chips—a tour of the possible future beyond smartphones.

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  • I thought voice might take off more, though Alexa and Siri are popular. Maybe it just isn't efficient enough for large amounts of information.

    • Almost 75% of Google's revenue comes from search, and it's likely about to be obliterated.

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  • Yes, unethical practices seem baked in now with Big Tech, and Big Tech aspirants. I'm gratified to see open source AI keep up with the Big Tech offerings. At least it means there will be widespread alternatives. I hope it hobbles any one company from being as big as Google.

    • Almost 75% of Google's revenue comes from search, and it's likely about to be obliterated.

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  • Google recently held its big annual product announcement event - I/O 2025 - and it got lots of upbeat coverage. There were dozens of new product upgrades across Android, Search, Gmail, etc. Of course, the big focus was AI.

    Google seemed to be lagging in AI but has caught up to speed lately with its models topping various AI leaderboards. Not surprising, Google has deep wells of computing power and talent to compete in AI.

    However, behind the scenes, all is not so rosy. Almost 75% of Google's revenue comes from search, and it's about to be obliterated. As anyone who has gotten used to using ChatGPT, Claude, or DeepSeek instead of Google Search will tell you - AI is miles better. Google is about to transform old Search into an AI Search like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and all the other AIs, but the problem is their days of 90% market domination in this new medium don't seem repeatable.

    Google are about to be replaced as the dominant means of internet search - but just how much, and how fast?

    • An escalator to nowhere: Science fiction lives and dies in space

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  • Great article. I'm glad 'Star Trek' still looms so large in the public imagination; it's given us a really hopeful template for the future.

    • Animals already have some rights; what if they also had a stake in democratic decision making?

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    • Possible sign of life in deep space faces new doubts

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  • This topic fascinates me. There are more space telescopes from Europe, the US and China due to launch, that will have even greater capability for biosignature detection than now. I wonder how soon the day will come when one of these findings will be regarded as definitive proof?

    • Kneecap’s Mo Chara Is on Trial for Opposing Genocide in Gaza

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  • I don't like or support Hezbollah, but the added irony here is that Northern Ireland (where Mo Chara is from) is festooned with British-supporting terrorist flags from groups like the UDF & UDA; pro-British terrorist groups active during The Troubles.