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Stanford Built A Virtual Biotech Company With 37,000 AI Employees, And It's Already Finding Cancer Treatments
Posted in Business, Medicine, Science, Software on 1st Oct, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Drug discovery is one of humanity's most expensive and least efficient processes. It takes over a decade, costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and still fails 90% of the time — most drug candidates that enter clinical trials never reach patients.
AI Is More Likely Than Humans To Form Biases When Hiring
Posted in Business, Software on 20th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
New findings show they can also invent entirely new stereotypes on their own, purely through experience, and do so more readily than people.
The Battery Metal That Powers The World Has A Problem. MIT Thinks It's Found The Fix.
Posted in Business, Hardware, Science on 3rd Jun, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Glass etching cream, the kind sold in ordinary home improvement shops, also dissolves silica, using ammonium fluoride, a far milder compound. If it could etch glass at room temperature, could it eat through lithium-rich rock?
AI's Hunger For Power Is Triggering A Political Backlash
Posted in Business, Hardware, Software on 28th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
The vast warehouses of servers that power everything from cloud storage to large language models, now consume 6% of all electricity generated in the United States. New figures suggest that milestone has been quietly crossed, and communities are starting to push back.
What Would It Actually Mean For AI To Be Generally Intelligent? DeepMind Has A Framework
Posted in Business, Science, Software on 7th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
If the DeepMind framework gains traction, it would give researchers, policymakers, and the public something more useful: a shared vocabulary, a set of specific tests, and a way to actually track whether the technology is getting closer to human-level general intelligence, rather than just asserting that it is.