AI
Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right?
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 18th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Claude appears to have a normally invisible set of internal representations that guide its reasoning and output, which the company argues echoes an influential idea known as global workspace theory.
AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren't Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity.
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 17th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Traditionally, engineering new proteins required years of trial and error, since even small sequence changes can unpredictably alter shape and function.
How to Tame AI’s Voracious Appetite for Energy
Posted in Hardware, Software on 15th Jul, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Scientists are exploring new algorithms, hardware, and computing methods to lower AI’s power demands.
The AI Lab That Could Compress 20 Years of Science Into Weeks
Posted in Science, Software on 1st Jun, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Materials sit beneath almost every meaningful technological advance, energy, computing, transportation, medicine. A lab that can discover them in weeks rather than decades isn't just faster. It's a different kind of tool entirely.
AI Needs Power. This Startup Wants to Find It in the Ocean.
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 29th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Panthalassa's approach shares the same basic logic of escaping land-based constraints by moving computing infrastructure somewhere radically different. But going to sea is orders of magnitude cheaper and simpler than going to orbit.