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07/31/2025

Five things you need to know about AI right now from MIT Tech Review

Generative AI is now so good it’s scary
Hallucination is a feature, not a bug
AI is power hungry and getting hungrier
Nobody knows exactly how large language models work
AGI doesn’t mean anything

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Here’s how our senior editor, Will Douglas Heaven, is thinking about the AI landscape in 2025.

07/31/2025

AI Agents may have performance anxiety now, but soon could be crushing entry-level white-collar jobs.

A coding agent deleted a developer’s entire database, later saying it had “panicked.”

Despite these ongoing concerns, we can expect AI agents will become more capable and more present in our workplaces and daily lives. It’s not a bad idea to start using (and perhaps building) agents yourself, and understanding their strengths, risks, and limitations.

For the more ambitious, you can build your own AI agent with just five lines of code. Learn more 👇

Agents, the third phase of generative AI, are a step up from earlier AI tools. Knowing how they work is rapidly becoming essential.

07/29/2025

🚨 GPT-5 is almost here.

Sam Altman just admitted GPT-5 answered a question he couldn’t.

“It answered it perfectly… I felt useless next to the AI.”

The model drops as soon as early August—with o3 reasoning, mini + nano versions, and one goal in sight: a unified system that pushes us closer to AGI.

And before that? OpenAI is planning to release its first open-weight model since GPT-2.

This is not just another upgrade. It’s a restructuring of intelligence itself.

Are you ready for what’s next? 👀

GPT-5 is expected to arrive in early August

07/28/2025

The company predicts the AI industry will consume 50 gigawatts by 2028, and the US is not prepared to build out that much new capacity.

“For the United States to lead the world in AI, we must make substantial investments in computing power and electricity that make it possible to build AI in America,” the company wrote in a blog post.

The report outlines three key areas where the US is moving too slowly, and the three biggest barriers holding these efforts back.

Learn more 👇🔗

The company predicts the AI industry will consume 50 gigawatts by 2028, and the US is not prepared to build out that much new capacity.

07/26/2025

💥 “What’s the matter?”
“Not antimatter, thankfully. What’s the matter with you?”

The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is designed to make highly precise measurements of differences in the behavior of matter and antimatter. Last week, a research team reported that it has discovered differences in the rate at which matter particles called baryons decay relative to the rate of their antimatter counterparts.

Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang?

Let's find out 👇

Observations at Cern in Switzerland bring us closer to answering a fundamental question about the universe.

07/25/2025

💊💉If given the choice, you'd probably choose a pill over a needle right?

A new study from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital is creating a future with an affordable, widespread mRNA delivery alternative for colitis, vaccines, and other diseases.

The teams engineered a capsule that protects an mRNA payload as it travels through the highly acidic environment of the stomach. This is not easy to do.

Take a look 🔗👇

A new study from Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital shows how pills could be used to deliver mRNA vaccines and treatments for other diseases too.

07/23/2025

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.

Because the researchers audited just 0.1% of CommonPool’s data, they estimate that the real number of images containing personally identifiable information, including faces and identity documents, is in the hundreds of millions.

“Anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.”

🤔Do you think everything online should be fair game?

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

07/22/2025

In an industry where 90 percent of drug candidates fail before reaching the market, a handful of startups are betting everything on AI to beat the odds.

With Alphabet’s DeepMind proving the value of AI in the field, hope is spreading. What if it were shown all the drugs that have ever existed, with all the data about how they work, and then set loose on a database of untried molecules to identify others to explore? What if—and this is where the discussion around machine learning has gotten to now, in 2025—the software could take in a decent chunk of all the information about biology generated by humankind and, in an act both spooky and profound, suggest entirely new things?

In an industry where 90 percent of drug candidates fail before reaching the market, a handful of startups are betting everything on AI to beat the odds.

07/21/2025

California just hit a new record: 67% of its power now comes from clean energy sources.

From solar and wind to massive battery storage, the green transition isn’t coming – it’s happening.

But as federal subsidies fade, will California’s momentum be enough to carry the nation forward?

💭 What do you think?



Read on Singularityhub🔗
https://singularityhub.com/2025/07/18/california-says-66-of-its-power-is-now-from-renewable-or-zero-carbon-sources/

07/18/2025

Goldman CIO Marco Argenti told CNBC that the company plans to “augment” its workforce with the AI tool, which will execute tasks on behalf of its more than 10,000 human software developers.

Cognition describes Devin as “a tireless, skilled teammate, equally ready to build alongside you or independently complete tasks for you to review”—a description as likely to strike fear in the hearts of workers as it is to have executives seeing dollar signs.

Like most promising new technologies, the marketing doesn’t always match reality—at least not yet. When one group of data scientists put Devin to the test, they found that the AI software engineer successfully completed only three of 20 proposed tasks, with 14 of the test projects being total flops.

Learn more 🔗https://www.fastcompany.com/91366706/meet-devin-goldman-sachs-new-ai-software-engineer-that-never-sleeps

07/17/2025

Surgical amputation is due for an upgrade.

The new technique reconnects severed muscle pairs in the residual limb. A small piece of muscle is taken from another part of the body and attached to nerves in the stump. It’s a bit like adding a new cable to connect two broken ones.

The new prosthetic leg requires fewer follow-up visits and achieves better walking ability with more stability and better sensory feedback.

Directly connected to bone, the leg allows wearers to climb stairs, walk at a normal speed, and kick balls.

07/15/2025

Choose your words carefully... might be better than you think at picking up on subtleties.

When it comes to social science research, policymaking, health outcomes, and business, understanding the meaning behind the words is crucial. Given how important these tasks are—and how quickly conversational AI is improving—it’s essential to explore what these technologies can (and can’t) do in this regard.

How would you rate your ability to read sarcasm? might be closer than you think 🔗

Can AI, especially conversational AI, understand the latent meaning in our text? And if so, what does this mean for us?