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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.
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 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.
AI Just Proved an 80-Year-Old Mathematical Conjecture Wrong, and Mathematicians Are Stunned
Posted in Science, Software on 29th May, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific and beloved mathematicians of the twentieth century, famous for posing deceptively simple questions that resisted solution for decades.
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.