Artificial Intelligence
Watershed Moment for AI–Human Collaboration in MathBenjamin Skuse | IEEE Spectrum
“The 8-dimensional sphere-packing proof formalization alone, announced on February 23, represents a watershed moment for autoformalization and AI–human collaboration. But today, Math, Inc. revealed a good more impressive accomplishment: Gauss has autoformalized Viazovska’s 24-dimensional sphere-packing proof—all 200,000+ lines of code of it—in only two weeks.”
Biotechnology
The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer TreatmentTom Clynes | IEEE Spectrum
“Here at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and other particle-physics labs, scientists and engineers are applying the tools of fundamental physics to develop a way called FLASH radiotherapy that gives a radical and counterintuitive vision for treating the disease.”
Computing
Google Spinoff Beams Blazing-Fast 25-Gbps Web Around Cities Using LightAbhimanyu Ghoshal | Latest Atlas
“The system shapes and steers beams of sunshine between devices which might be in line of sight of one another, and as much as 6.2 miles (10 km) apart. Roughly the scale of a shoebox and weighing 17.6 lb (8 kg), the Beam is supposed to be mounted high up on poles and atop tall buildings to be used in densely populated urban areas. Taara says it’s able to fiber-like bidirectional data transfer speeds of as much as 25 Gbps, with ultra-low latency.”
Computing
Nvidia’s Spending $4 Billion on Photonics to Stay Ahead of the Curve in AIStevie Bonifield | The Verge
“Nvidia isn’t the one organization being attentive to photonics, either. Last month, DARPA put out a call for research proposals for improving photonic computing, specifically related to AI applications. Nvidia’s rival AMD also acquired silicone photonics startup Enosemi last yr, which it said would ‘speed up’ AMD’s optics innovation for its AI systems.”
Computing
Contained in the Company Selling Quantum EntanglementKarmela Padavic-Callaghan | Latest Scientist ($)
“Mehdi Namazi desires to sell you quantum entanglement. He and his colleagues at Qunnect have spent nearly a decade constructing devices that make sharing quantum-entangled particles of sunshine, or photons, practical enough for use for unhackable communication.”
Artificial Intelligence
Can AI Replace Humans for Market Research?Belle Lin | The Wall Street Journal ($)
“The AI agents are essentially digital clones of real individuals, who’re interviewed to assemble their preferences, personality and other traits. …Previously, businesses contracted with consulting or market research firms to find out about their customers—a costly process that might take months. Now, they will query Simile’s online bank of agents, access that may cost between $150,000 to hundreds of thousands for every customer annually, Park said.”
Tech
Jack Dorsey Blamed AI for Block’s Massive Layoffs. Skeptics Aren’t Buying It.Angel Au-Yeung | The Wall Street Journal ($)
‘”The overwhelming majority of those cuts were probably not attributable to AI,’ said Dan Dolev of Mizuho Americas, noting the ‘significant amount of bloating’ lately. ‘This isn’t an AI story. It’s a workforce correction wearing an AI costume,’ wrote Jason Karsh, a former Block worker, on X.”
Future
AI Frees the Corporate PhalanxAndy Kessler | The Wall Street Journal ($)
“‘Is artificial intelligence coming to your job? More likely your title. …As old jobs, titles and charts are destroyed, persons are still essential to assist capture the quickly changing landscape and constant decisions—everyone makes 35,000 decisions a day, one study claims. Look ahead to the creation of latest jobs and job descriptions that tap the approaching flexibility, decoupling and flattening—most certainly at brand-new, quick-on-their-feet corporations.'”
Space
NASA Shakes Up Its Artemis Program to Speed Up Lunar ReturnEric Berger | Ars Technica
“On the core of Isaacman’s concerns is the low flight rate of the SLS rocket and Artemis missions. During past exploration missions, from Mercury through Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle program, NASA has launched humans on average about once every three months. It has been nearly 3.5 years since Artemis I launched.”