AI is helping build the next AI. Inside the evidence for recursive self-improvement—and the fight over who gets to steer what happens next.
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic over the AI race. A colleague echoed his warning; Dario Amodei now proposes slower progress and independent scrutiny.
Two seats. No steering wheel. As Cybercab reaches paying passengers, Elon Musk’s boldest design choice puts the entire service on trial.
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DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free academic portal predicting the molecular effects of nine billion possible DNA letter changes. It helps researchers prioritize experiments; the predictions are not approved for clinical use.
The U.S. Energy Department closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion for Duane Arnold’s restart. The 615-megawatt Iowa reactor still needs licensing approvals before it can supply electricity again.
IonQ says it has fabricated Superion 256 chips and trapped the first ions in prototype systems. Orders are open, with customer deliveries planned for 2027; large-scale, fault-tolerant operation remains a roadmap goal.
Researchers trained IRIS on stem-cell experiments, then inferred signaling histories in data from mouse embryos. It helped improve a protocol for producing cells involved in lung development; broader transfer across cell types still needs testing.
The ImageNet pioneer is building AI that can imagine spaces beyond a photograph. Knowing what it invented may be the crucial next step.
A Nobel laureate, fresh capital and a protein experiment: Pasqal’s next test is turning extraordinary physics into work that matters.
A new proposal would prohibit superintelligence and pause advanced AI development. Its definition reaches further than the slogan suggests.
New York, Seattle and Charlotte are putting brakes on data-center approvals. The AI boom is discovering that a construction budget cannot buy public permission.
Ohio wants data centers to carry their own grid burden. The emerging rules expose the AI boom’s uncomfortable question: who pays when promised demand becomes public infrastructure?
A 0.3-degree adjustment unlocked an unusually strong optical response. The experiment shows why designing a remarkable material is only half the job.
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