The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you immediately’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.
1 Elon Musk has turned on Trump
He referred to 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 funds has been reduce by 1 / 4, and now its new chief has had his nomination revoked. (New Scientist $)
+ What’s subsequent for NASA’s large moon rocket? (MIT Know-how Assessment)
3 Right here’s how Large Tech plans to wield AI
To construct ‘every little thing apps’ that preserve you inside their ecosystem, eternally. (The Atlantic $)
+ The difficulty is, the expertise isn’t at all times slick sufficient, as Google has found with its ‘Ask Pictures’ function. (The Verge $)
+ Learn how to battle your intuition to blindly belief AI. (WP $)
4 Meta has signed a 20-year deal to purchase nuclear energy
It’s the most recent in a race to attempt to sustain with AI’s surging power calls for. (ABC)
+ Can nuclear energy actually gasoline the rise of AI? (MIT Know-how Assessment)
5 Excessive warmth takes an enormous toll on folks’s psychological well being
It’s yet one more subject we’re failing to organize for, as summers get hotter and warmer. (Scientific American $)
+ The hunt to guard farmworkers from excessive warmth. (MIT Know-how Assessment)
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 large on humanoid robots. (MIT Know-how Assessment)
7 AI will supercharge hackers
The total affect of latest AI strategies is but to be felt, however specialists say it’s solely a matter of time. (Wired $)
+ 5 methods criminals are utilizing AI. (MIT Know-how Assessment)
8 It’s an thrilling time to be engaged on Alzheimer’s therapies 💊
12 of them are shifting to the ultimate part of scientific trials this yr. (The Economist $)
+ The innovation that will get an Alzheimer’s drug by way of the blood-brain barrier. (MIT Know-how Assessment)
9 Employees are being subjected to increasingly more surveillance
Not simply within the gig financial 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 honest. (The Guardian)
