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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
Opinion | A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious.
Skeptics overlook how our concepts change.
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
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How to know if someone is a #fascist? 🤔
Answer; fascists always want:
1) 'More' (land / money / power)
2) To get it from 'Others' (countries, the elite, information)
....because they always think that 'Others' own what should be theirs'.
Answer; fascists always want:
1) 'More' (land / money / power)
2) To get it from 'Others' (countries, the elite, information)
....because they always think that 'Others' own what should be theirs'.
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
How to know if someone is a #fascist? 🤔
Answer; fascists always want:
1) 'More' (land / money / power)
2) To get it from 'Others' (countries, the elite, information)
....because they always think that 'Others' own what should be theirs'.
Answer; fascists always want:
1) 'More' (land / money / power)
2) To get it from 'Others' (countries, the elite, information)
....because they always think that 'Others' own what should be theirs'.
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Sichuan researchers analyzed data from over 12,000 people and found that Long COVID is linked to persistent insulin resistance, high blood sugar, and beta-cell dysfunction, pointing to a lasting disruption in the body’s metabolic balance.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Increased Insulin Resistance and Hyperglycemia in Long COVID disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Background accumulating evidence suggests that Long COVID (LC) is mediated by chronic immune activation, oxidative stress, and metabolic dysregulation. These processes may impair glucose homeostasis a...
www.medrxiv.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sichuan researchers analyzed data from over 12,000 people and found that Long COVID is linked to persistent insulin resistance, high blood sugar, and beta-cell dysfunction, pointing to a lasting disruption in the body’s metabolic balance.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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i spent the morning breaking my brain with this one and now you can too!
www.popsci.com/science/not-...
www.popsci.com/science/not-...
Why we (probably) aren't living in a computer simulation
Mathematicians say they proved reality is real. Critics already say otherwise.
www.popsci.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
i spent the morning breaking my brain with this one and now you can too!
www.popsci.com/science/not-...
www.popsci.com/science/not-...
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Artificial intelligence can dash off more than routine emails. It has now written tiny working genomes.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-genome-bacteria-phage
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-genome-bacteria-phage
AI generated its first working genome: a tiny bacteria killer
Bacteriophages designed with AI kill E. coli faster than a well-studied strain, but the tech needs regulation before moving beyond lab dishes.
t.co
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Artificial intelligence can dash off more than routine emails. It has now written tiny working genomes.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-genome-bacteria-phage
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-genome-bacteria-phage
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Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe on.ft.com/4qKngmk
Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe
EU grant applications hit record in 2025 amid surge in interest from American academics
on.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe on.ft.com/4qKngmk
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In tumor-bearing mice receiving immunotherapy, the mRNA COVID vaccine switches on a powerful molecular siren. It’s like a 911 call that alerts the immune system to start fighting cancer.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-immunotherapy-mrna-covid-vaccines
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-immunotherapy-mrna-covid-vaccines
Cancer treatments may get a boost from mRNA COVID vaccines
Cancer patients who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within a few months of their immunotherapy lived longer than those who did not, health records show.
www.sciencenews.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In tumor-bearing mice receiving immunotherapy, the mRNA COVID vaccine switches on a powerful molecular siren. It’s like a 911 call that alerts the immune system to start fighting cancer.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-immunotherapy-mrna-covid-vaccines
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-immunotherapy-mrna-covid-vaccines
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
♨️ Next-generation geothermal is ready for its wind and solar moment
🔋 JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials scales up its grid battery business
💡Jennifer Granholm on pushing cleantech companies in the Trump era #geothermal www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
♨️ Next-generation geothermal is ready for its wind and solar moment
🔋 JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials scales up its grid battery business
💡Jennifer Granholm on pushing cleantech companies in the Trump era #geothermal www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
Next-Generation Geothermal Looks For Its Wind And Solar Moment
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Redwood Materials scaling up its grid battery business and Jennifer Granholm on pushing cleantech in the Trump era
www.forbes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
♨️ Next-generation geothermal is ready for its wind and solar moment
🔋 JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials scales up its grid battery business
💡Jennifer Granholm on pushing cleantech companies in the Trump era #geothermal www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
♨️ Next-generation geothermal is ready for its wind and solar moment
🔋 JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials scales up its grid battery business
💡Jennifer Granholm on pushing cleantech companies in the Trump era #geothermal www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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An engine made from a tiny glass ball is as unintuitive as quantum mechanics. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hottest-engine-levitated-glass
A tiny, levitated glass sphere behaves like the hottest engine ever made
At an effective temperature of 13 million kelvins, the jiggling glass sphere could help scientists understand physics at the microscale.
www.sciencenews.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
An engine made from a tiny glass ball is as unintuitive as quantum mechanics. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hottest-engine-levitated-glass
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Google's calculation measuring “quantum echoes” runs 13,000 times as fast on the company’s Willow quantum computer chip as it would on one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-echoes-google-computer
Quantum 'echoes' reveal the potential of Google’s quantum computer
Google says its quantum computer achieved a verifiable calculation that classic computers cannot. The work could point to future applications.
www.sciencenews.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Google's calculation measuring “quantum echoes” runs 13,000 times as fast on the company’s Willow quantum computer chip as it would on one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-echoes-google-computer
Als je er over nadenkt dan kan een superintelligente AI het hele electromagnetisch spectrum gebruiken om je overal te volgen..
www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/weten...
www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/weten...
Nieuwe techniek gebruikt wifi-signalen als 'onzichtbare camera': onderzoekers pleiten voor aanpassingen
Een nieuwe technologische ontwikkeling: Duitse onderzoekers van het Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) hebben met enkel wifi-signalen kunnen zien wie er in huis loopt. Huisvriend Rob van Hattum v...
www.nporadio1.nl
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Als je er over nadenkt dan kan een superintelligente AI het hele electromagnetisch spectrum gebruiken om je overal te volgen..
www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/weten...
www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/weten...
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Alweer? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
AI-experts en andere prominenten willen voorlopig verbod op ontwikkeling van ‘superintelligentie’
Wat het precies is, weet niemand nog. Maar toch investeren technologiebedrijven als OpenAI en Meta vele miljarden in de ontwikkeling van ‘superintelligentie’, ook wel ‘Artificial General Intelligence’...
www.nrc.nl
October 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Alweer? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
We're Not Ready for Superintelligence
YouTube video by AI In Context
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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In the animal-based studies, a nanoparticle-based vaccine shrunk, cleared and prevented cancer growth, including melanoma.
Cancer Vaccine Stops Tumors in Mice: ‘Remarkable Survival Rates’
www.newsweek.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
In the animal-based studies, a nanoparticle-based vaccine shrunk, cleared and prevented cancer growth, including melanoma.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.
The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.
The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.
The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.
The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.
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