A new AI system can independently plan, design and conduct chemical experiments. Coscientist has successfully optimized chemical reactions and proven its ability to work independently in six different experimental tasks.
π’ Sea turtles increase significantly. π¨βπ» AI tutoring twice as effective. βοΈ First privately developed supersonic aircraft reaches Mach 1.1.
XB-1 has completed three supersonic flights without creating an audible sonic boom on the ground. Sound waves bend when traveling through air with different temperatures. Due to the colder temperatures at high altitude, the sound waves make a U-turn in the atmosphere.
Hell will break loose, said a Nobel Prize winner. We will see baby factories, said others. That's how they talked about in vitro fertilization then. We can learn from that now.
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EU unemployment has dropped from 11.3 percent in 2013 to 6 percent in 2023, the lowest level in several decades.
New studies show sea turtles are increasing in numbers at 28 locations worldwide. Only five sites show a decrease. On Sal Island off Africa, the number of loggerhead nests increased from 500 to 35,000 between 2008 and 2020.
Students using AI tutors learn more than twice as much in less time compared to traditional active classroom teaching. AI tutoring resulted in higher engagement and motivation among students.
Boom Supersonic's demonstration aircraft XB-1 reached a speed of 750 mph (Mach 1.122) at an altitude of 35 000 feet during its first supersonic flight. XB-1 is the first civil supersonic aircraft developed by a private company, without government or military support.
Conversations with AI led 29 percent of participants to change their false beliefs. For some topics, certainty in false beliefs decreased by up to 41 percent. The effect was particularly strong for beliefs that participants had previously been very certain about.
π΄ Life expectancy continues to increase. βοΈ Solar power generated more electricity than coal in EU last year. π©πΏβπ» AI-based teaching delivered two years of learning in six weeks.
Neko Health has secured an investment of $290 million to open more clinics in Europe and the USA. The company has already scanned 10,000 people and has 100,000 people on the waiting list.
I have built an AI secretary together with two Members of Parliament.
Elon Musk doesn't have enough money to take humanity to Mars. For that, we need "space bonds," according to Warp News ambassador Oskar SΓΆderstrΓΆm.
Solar panels generated 11 percent of EU electricity in 2024, while coal power plants accounted for 10 percent. The use of fossil fuels decreased for the fifth consecutive year.
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Humanity is doing the high jump without a bar. We have no goal. With Warp Levels, we determine what the next level for humanity should contain, so we can level up and make progress faster.
We talk about some of the 450 advice in his new book, but also about his new project: Protopia - the hundred-year desirable future. And Kevin Kelly give advice for how Warp News should grow faster: "Wrap it around people and their dreams."
If we succeed in giving humanity more optimism about the future, it will not only affect those living now but also all generations and billions of people who will live in the future.
Jim O'Shaughnessy is a legendary investor on Wall Street. He shares what he thinks is the biggest opportunity for the future and explains how the world is going through a great reshuffle.
The story of Peter Carlsson and Northvolt teaches us two lessons: You need to understand the future to see all the possibilities, and you must be a fact-based optimist to grab them.
With so much progress in the world, how can pessimism still be widespread? It is because of cynicism, denying that βso-called-progressβ is progress, argues David Deutsch, professor at Oxford University and one of the world's leading intellectuals on optimism.