Robotics
I’ve Covered Robots for Years. This One Is DifferentWill Knight | Wired ($)
“Eka’s robot demos suggest that the corporate’s approach should enable real robot dexterity with further training. If that’s true, it could revolutionize how robots are used—not only in factories and warehouses but additionally in shops, restaurants, even households. ‘Trillions of dollars flow through the human hand,’ Agrawal says. ‘To me, that is the most important problem on this planet to be solved.'”
Artificial Intelligence
I Built an Agent to Do My Job. Then It Hung up on My Boss.Amanda Hoover | Business Insider
“The assorted generative AI systems I utilized in this piece each unsettled me with their ability and unnerved me with their shortcomings. …The method was so tedious that even when ChatGPT could spin up the copy in seconds, every step I took to make that occur added to the workload.”
Biotechnology
This Treatment Could Reverse Osteoarthritis Joint Damage With a Single InjectionJavier Carbajal | Wired ($)
“Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed recent therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks. …The Colorado team led by biomedical engineer Stephanie Bryant proposes a radically different approach: ‘Our goal will not be simply to treat pain and halt progression, but to finish this disease.'”
Computing
Get Ready for More Brain-Scanning Consumer GadgetsJulian Chokkattu | Wired ($)
“The following gadget you place in your head could scan your brain. Neurable, a Boston-based company that embeds its noninvasive brain-scanning technology into hardware to watch an individual’s focus levels, announced on Tuesday that it’s transitioning to a licensing platform model. By certifying third parties, Neurable expects its tech to be in a ‘flood’ of consumer gadgets this yr and next.”
Artificial Intelligence
Study Finds a Third of Latest Web sites Are AI-GeneratedMatthew Gault | 404 Media
“Inspired by the Dead Web Theory—the concept that much of the web is now just bots talking forwards and backwards—the team got down to learn how ChatGPT and its competitors had reshaped the web since 2022. …’We discover that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published web sites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022,’ [the researchers write].”
Tech
The Clock Is Ticking for Big Tech to Make AI PayAsa Fitch and Dan Gallagher | The Wall Street Journal ($)
“Depreciation charges surged in any respect 4 firms, totaling $41.6 billion for essentially the most recent quarter. When firms make capital investments, they don’t count the outlays immediately as expenses. Relatively, these capital assets must be depreciated over a time frame. So the impact on profits is delayed. But a multitrillion-dollar bill could have to clean through in coming years, taking a bite out of reported profits.”
Future
The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate ItJanus Rose | The Verge
“Contrary to the tales spun by tech firms like OpenAI and Google, polling data shows that Gen Z students and staff are a giant a part of the broader cultural backlash against AI. And whilst they utilize these tools, vast swaths of young individuals are deeply acrimonious and even resentful of the AI-centric future that many feel is being forced on them.”
Tech
So, About That AI BubbleRogé Karma | The Atlantic ($)
“Six months ago, people arguing that AI was a bubble were pointing to real-world facts, whereas people arguing against the bubble hypothesis were making speculative guarantees concerning the future. Today, the roles have reversed. AI’s explosive growth may yet encounter some recent unexpected obstacle. However the burden of proof has shifted to the naysayers.”
Space
A Falcon 9 Rocket Will Hit the Moon This Summer at Seven Times the Speed of SoundEric Berger | Ars Technica
“Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to trace near-Earth objects, has published a comprehensive report on the impact expected to occur at 2:44 am ET (06:44 UTC) on August 5. The Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage is 13.8 meters (45 feet) tall and has a 3.7-meter (12 feet) diameter. For the reason that moon has no atmosphere, it should strike the lunar surface intact.”
Tech
OpenAI Could Be Making a Phone With AI Agents Replacing AppsIvan Mehta | TechCrunch
“Currently, Apple and Google control the app pipeline and the variety of system access they get, restricting a few of their functions. Kuo suggests that by creating its own smartphone and hardware stack, OpenAI would give you the option to make use of AI in all types of features without restrictions. With ChatGPT nearing a billion weekly users, a hardware product for every day use could also bode well for OpenAI’s ambition to achieve more consumers.”
Energy
Meta Inks Deal for Solar Power at Night, Beamed From SpaceTim Fernholz | TechCrunch
“The corporate [Overview Energy] is developing spacecraft that collect plentiful solar energy in space. It then plans to convert that energy to near-infrared light and beam it at sufficiently large solar farms—on the order of lots of of megawatts—which may convert that light to electricity.”
Tech
Microsoft and OpenAI’s Famed AGI Agreement Is DeadHayden Field | The Verge
“The change impacts a revenue-sharing agreement, which was presupposed to stay in place until AGI was declared. …The payments may also proceed after which end ‘independent of OpenAI’s technology progress,’ which under any reasonable logic includes AGI.”
Space
10,000 Latest Planets Found Hidden in NASA Telescope DataJonathan O’Callaghan | Latest Scientist ($)
“By combining images taken by the telescope, the researchers were capable of search for planets around stars which might be less shiny, attributable to their smaller size or greater distance from Earth, than was previously possible. This revealed 11,554 candidate exoplanets, of which 10,091 haven’t been identified in previous exoplanet searches.”