This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 15) – Singularity Hub
Giant Chips Give Supercomputers a Run for Their Money Gina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum [Cerebras recently] demonstrated that its second generation wafer-scale engine, WSE-2, was significantly faster than the worlds fastest supercomputer, Frontier, in molecular dynamics calculations [And] in collaboration with machine learning model optimization company Neural Magic, Cerebras demonstrated that a sparse large language model could perform inference at one-third of the energy cost of a full model without losing any accuracy.
Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product Will Knight | Wired Rather than a stand-alone device or experience, Apple hasfocused on how generative AI can improve apps and OS featuresin small yet meaningful ways. Early adopters have certainly flocked to generative AI programs like ChatGPT for help redrafting emails, summarizing documents, and generating images, but this has typically meant opening another browser window or app, cutting and pasting, and trying to make sense of a chatbotssometimes fevered ramblings. To be truly useful, generative AI will need to seep into technology we already use in ways we canbetter understand and trust.
Lung-Targeted CRISPR Therapy Offers Hope for Cystic Fibrosis Christa Lest-Lasserre | New Scientist CRISPR gene-editing therapy has the potential to offer an effective, long-lasting treatment for cystic fibrosis after overcoming a major challenge that held back previous genetic therapies. The approach has succeeded in editing DNA in hard-to-reach lung stem cells in mice, with modifications that endured for at least 22 monthsessentially the animals entire lives, says Daniel Siegwart at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
An AI Bot Is (Sort of) Running for Mayor in Wyoming Vittoria Elliot | Wired Victor Miller is running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an unusual campaign promise: If elected, he willnot be calling the shotsan AI bot will. VIC, the Virtual Integrated Citizen, is a ChatGPT-based chatbot that Miller created. And Miller says the bot has better ideasand a better grasp of the lawthan many people currently serving in government. I realized that this entity is way smarter than me, and more importantly, way better than some of the outward-facing public servants I see, he says.
Biotech Companies Are Trying to Make Milk Without Cows Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review The FDA says that commercial milk is safe [from avian influenza] because it is pasteurized, killing the germs. Even so, its enough to make a person ponder a life beyond milksay, taking your coffee black or maybe drinking oat milk. But for those of us who cant do without the real thing, it turns out some genetic engineers are working on ways to keep the milk and get rid of the cows instead.
Can Apple Rescue the Vision Pro? Kevin Roose | The New York Times To live up to its potential, the Vision Pro needs a little more love and, well, a little more vision. Apple needs better answers to basic questions like: What is this for? How will it improve my life, or make me more productive than other things I could buy for $3,500? What can I do on it that I cant do on my laptop, or a big TV? Otherwise, the Vision Pro may be destined for obsolescence. And I and my fellow Vision Bros may emerge as theGoogle Glassholes of 2024a brave but ultimately foolish tribe of nerds who took a gamble on a futuristic new technology and lost.
OpenAIs Revenue Is Skyrocketing Laura Bratton | Quartz OpenAI has more than tripled its annualized revenue over the past year, according to The Information. Annualized revenue is an estimate for a companys revenue for the year using partial datain other words, you multiply the past months revenue by 12. OpenAIs annualized revenue was around $1 billion last summer, $1.6 billion in late 2023, and has now reached $3.4 billion, the outlet said.
Humanoid Chauffeur Put in the Driving Seat for Robotaxi Future Paul Ridden | New Atlas Musashi is a musculoskeletal humanoid developed by [a Japanese] research group in 2019 as a testbed for learning control systems. The form factor not only has similar proportions to a human counterpart but also features a joint and muscle structure inspired by the human body. The robot has now found use in an autonomous driving project where its been trained by members of the Jouhou System Kougaku Lab to master driving in a similar way to humans. With varying degrees of success, as you can see in the video below.
The AI Upgrade Cycle Is Here Jay Peters | The Verge AI has quickly become the latest entry in the tech industrys never ending desire to drive an upgrade cycle. A few years ago, every smartphone maker raced to 5G; more than a decade ago, the TV industry pushed for 3D TVs. Right now, every tech company clearly sees an opportunity with AI and is adding AI features confined to their latest and greatest devices as a result. But like the race to 5G, the mad rush toward AI is happening quickly and before the tech has been proven useful and its problems ironed out.
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This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 15) - Singularity Hub
- THE SINGULARITY | AI That Lies? Faithfulness Concerns in Chain-of-Thought Models - The Hoya - April 23rd, 2025 [April 23rd, 2025]
- HILL: The singularity of the Christian Easter - The North State Journal - April 23rd, 2025 [April 23rd, 2025]
- AI Singularity Shock: Tech Titans Predict Unstoppable Intelligence Explosion Within 12 Months, Sparking Global Fear and Frenzy - Sustainability Times - April 23rd, 2025 [April 23rd, 2025]
- An A.I. Fooled Humans and Passed the Turing Test. But It's a Red Herring for the Singularity. - Popular Mechanics - April 16th, 2025 [April 16th, 2025]
- Singularity AMC gears up to start raising third PE fund - VCCircle - April 16th, 2025 [April 16th, 2025]
- Helldivers 2 Has a Massive Opportunity with the Meridian Singularity - Game Rant - April 16th, 2025 [April 16th, 2025]
- THE SINGULARITY | Elon Musk, DOGE and the Merging of Technology and Politics - The Hoya - April 8th, 2025 [April 8th, 2025]
- The Definition of Singularity - AOL.com - April 8th, 2025 [April 8th, 2025]
- 'God of gaps': singularity and the divine - The Express Tribune - April 8th, 2025 [April 8th, 2025]
- B1A4 sells out 'Singularity' concert tickets ahead of 14th anniversary celebration - CHOSUNBIZ - Chosun Biz - April 8th, 2025 [April 8th, 2025]
- Singularity is a Forest - Style Weekly - March 1st, 2025 [March 1st, 2025]
- Singularity achieved? After shaky start, AI has suddenly become relevant to Oscar predictions - Gold Derby - March 1st, 2025 [March 1st, 2025]
- Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months, Scientists Suggest - Popular Mechanics - February 27th, 2025 [February 27th, 2025]
- Elon Musks big warning on the AI singularity - Washington Examiner - February 27th, 2025 [February 27th, 2025]
- Information Singularity: What Happens When Even AI Experts Can't Keep Up With AI - substack.com - February 27th, 2025 [February 27th, 2025]
- Elon Musk Claims Were on the Event Horizon of the Singularity Are We? - substack.com - February 27th, 2025 [February 27th, 2025]
- How Real Is The Possibility Of AI Going Rogue? Tech Singularity And Elon Musks Warning Explained - News18 - February 25th, 2025 [February 25th, 2025]
- Liberty save us, Helldivers 2 just lost a planet to the deadly black hole we created last year after spaghettifying Meridia, and the singularity is... - February 14th, 2025 [February 14th, 2025]
- Boruto: The Singularity of Fate, Explained - CBR - February 14th, 2025 [February 14th, 2025]
- Top Dubai-based production company Singularity joins the m25 representation network - Campaign Brief Asia - February 14th, 2025 [February 14th, 2025]
- Singularity Finance Announces Collaboration with Particle Network - Brave New Coin Insights - January 27th, 2025 [January 27th, 2025]
- Singularity Finance Teams Up With Particle Network To Streamline Tokenized AI Transactions - The Crypto Basic - January 27th, 2025 [January 27th, 2025]
- Davos 2025: Africa at the crossroads of circularity and singularity - Punch Newspapers - January 27th, 2025 [January 27th, 2025]
- Singularity Finance Partners with Zoth for ZLTN Prime Tokenized Asset - Crypto News Flash - December 27th, 2024 [December 27th, 2024]
- Is 2025 the Year AI Agents Take Over? Industry Bets Billions on AIs Killer App - Singularity Hub - December 27th, 2024 [December 27th, 2024]
- Call of Duty: World at War and Singularity reportedly coming to Game Pass - Video Games Chronicle - December 27th, 2024 [December 27th, 2024]
- AI That Can Design Life's Machinery From Scratch Had a Big Year. Here's What Happens Next. - Singularity Hub - December 27th, 2024 [December 27th, 2024]
- Call of Duty: World at War, Singularity to Reportedly Join Game Pass in 2025 - Gadgets 360 - December 27th, 2024 [December 27th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 21) - Singularity Hub - December 27th, 2024 [December 27th, 2024]
- Singularity Advocate Series #1: AI with a Mind of Its Own, On Trial for its Life - JD Supra - December 16th, 2024 [December 16th, 2024]
- ISC East Recap: The Unification Singularity - SecurityInfoWatch - December 16th, 2024 [December 16th, 2024]
- The Singularity: The Future of Man and Machine - Observer Research Foundation - December 14th, 2024 [December 14th, 2024]
- The Secret to Predicting How Your Brain Will Age May Be in Your Blood - Singularity Hub - December 14th, 2024 [December 14th, 2024]
- Thousands of Undiscovered Genes May Be Hidden in DNA Dark Matter - Singularity Hub - December 14th, 2024 [December 14th, 2024]
- Darryl Vidal's Sci-Fi Thriller MindCraft: The Educational Singularity Delivers an Electrifying Vision of the Future - Benzinga - December 10th, 2024 [December 10th, 2024]
- Theoretical physicist wants to know whats at a singularity - Cosmos - December 10th, 2024 [December 10th, 2024]
- Singularity Finance: Making AI and RWAs Easy to Access - Crypto Times - December 10th, 2024 [December 10th, 2024]
- Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 6 Years, Trend Shows - Yahoo! Voices - December 8th, 2024 [December 8th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 7) - Singularity Hub - December 8th, 2024 [December 8th, 2024]
- The Singularity Is Nearsighted, A Book Review - Forbes - December 8th, 2024 [December 8th, 2024]
- Most Supposedly Open AI Systems Are Actually Closedand Thats a Problem - Singularity Hub - December 2nd, 2024 [December 2nd, 2024]
- Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 6 Years, Trend Shows - MSN - December 2nd, 2024 [December 2nd, 2024]
- Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 6 Years, Trend Shows - Popular Mechanics - November 30th, 2024 [November 30th, 2024]
- Singularity alert: AIs are already designing their own chips - New Atlas - November 30th, 2024 [November 30th, 2024]
- OpenAIs GPT-4o Makes AI Clones of Real People With Surprising Ease - Singularity Hub - November 30th, 2024 [November 30th, 2024]
- A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning - Singularity Hub - November 30th, 2024 [November 30th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 23) - Singularity Hub - November 26th, 2024 [November 26th, 2024]
- Album Review: WO FAT The Singularity - Metal Injection - November 19th, 2024 [November 19th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 16) - Singularity Hub - November 19th, 2024 [November 19th, 2024]
- Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key - Singularity Hub - November 19th, 2024 [November 19th, 2024]
- THE SINGULARITY | Georgetown Doesnt Need Engineering - Georgetown University The Hoya - November 17th, 2024 [November 17th, 2024]
- Simulation and kinematic analysis of a 3-DOF marine antenna pedestal focusing on singularity avoidance and its effects on angular velocity and angular... - November 17th, 2024 [November 17th, 2024]
- Book Review The many and the singularity - Morning Star Online - November 16th, 2024 [November 16th, 2024]
- MIT's New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation Whipped Up by Generative AI - Singularity Hub - November 16th, 2024 [November 16th, 2024]
- Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You - Singularity Hub - November 16th, 2024 [November 16th, 2024]
- Outlier Ventures Partners with Singularity Finance on the RWA Base Camp Accelerator Program - CryptoGlobe - November 12th, 2024 [November 12th, 2024]
- AI Singularity might take place under Trump presidency, AI experts are worried - Firstpost - November 12th, 2024 [November 12th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 9) - Singularity Hub - November 12th, 2024 [November 12th, 2024]
- SentinelOne to showcase AI-powered Singularity Platform at Gitex Global this year - Gulf News - October 14th, 2024 [October 14th, 2024]
- Our Mutual Friend: A Review of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil - Newcity Lit - October 14th, 2024 [October 14th, 2024]
- Youll Soon Be Able to Book a Room at the Worlds First 3D-Printed Hotel - Singularity Hub - October 14th, 2024 [October 14th, 2024]
- THE SINGULARITY | What Artificial Intelligence Means for Academia - Georgetown University The Hoya - October 9th, 2024 [October 9th, 2024]
- Inside Singularity's second gathering of business heads in India | Mint - Mint - October 9th, 2024 [October 9th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 5) - Singularity Hub - October 9th, 2024 [October 9th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 21) - Singularity Hub - September 22nd, 2024 [September 22nd, 2024]
- Valorant Singularity 2.0 is Repeating the Worst Fortnite Blunder: Riot is Running Out of Ideas to Cash in on Old Skins - imdb - September 22nd, 2024 [September 22nd, 2024]
- SentinelOne Takes Top Honors at 2024 SC Media Awards as AI-Powered Singularity Platform Wins Best Enterprise Security Solution and Best Endpoint... - September 22nd, 2024 [September 22nd, 2024]
- Elderly Monkeys Aged More Slowly When Given a Cheap Diabetes Drug Used by Millions - Singularity Hub - September 22nd, 2024 [September 22nd, 2024]
- Christos Yannaras and the Hellenic Diaspora: Rediscovering Singularity - The National Herald - September 14th, 2024 [September 14th, 2024]
- This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 14) - Singularity Hub - September 14th, 2024 [September 14th, 2024]
- Jackalope Theatre Companys The Singularity Play - Choose Chicago - September 14th, 2024 [September 14th, 2024]
- SentinelOne Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization for Singularity Platform and Singularity Data Lake - StockTitan - September 14th, 2024 [September 14th, 2024]
- A New Gene Therapy Reprograms Cancer Cells to Fight Themselves - Singularity Hub - September 14th, 2024 [September 14th, 2024]
- The singularity of literary production: Nirmal Verma and Jorge Luis Borges in London, 1976 - Scroll.in - September 14th, 2024 [September 14th, 2024]
- Robots Are Coming to the KitchenWhat That Could Mean for Society and Culture - Singularity Hub - September 3rd, 2024 [September 3rd, 2024]
- 463. The Road to Singularity: Ben Goertzel on AGI and The Fate of Humanity - Skeptic Magazine - September 3rd, 2024 [September 3rd, 2024]
- We Think Singularity Future Technology (NASDAQ:SGLY) Can Afford To Drive Business Growth - Yahoo Finance - September 3rd, 2024 [September 3rd, 2024]
- Backyard Naturalist: The woods and The Singularity - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel - September 3rd, 2024 [September 3rd, 2024]
- The US Is Adding Grid-Scale Batteries at 10 Times the Pace of Natural Gas This Year - Singularity Hub - September 3rd, 2024 [September 3rd, 2024]
- The singularity: How AI could become the final boss whale of crypto - Cointelegraph - August 27th, 2024 [August 27th, 2024]