🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps doctors make better diagnoses, scientists create new materials, farmers grow crops more effectively and all of us driving cars - and millions of other applications. This topic also covers subsets of AI such as machine learning (ML), deep learning and neural networks.
🚛 The self-driving future is getting closer at Volvo
Volvo is facing its biggest shift since the company was founded. Instead of selling trucks, it now aims to sell transportation – with autonomous vehicles at the center of an entirely new ecosystem.
🦾 AI helps 1200 researchers develop new materials in global hackathon
More than 100 teams developed AI tools that can predict crystal structures, track medicines, and design new chemicals in just two days.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Without China, emissions would already have peaked
Are we close to the first major milestone for the climate?
👩💻 Almost ten percent of the world's population uses ChatGPT
ChatGPT had 700 million users per week in July 2025 The gender gap has disappeared – from 80 percent male users to 48 percent in June 2025
🦑 With AI we are learning to understand animal language
AI technology makes it possible to analyze large amounts of animal sounds and detect patterns that were previously impossible to identify.
🌌 AI improves gravitational wave measurements
The method can help astronomers detect hundreds more collisions between black holes and neutron stars per year.
🦾 AI shows faster development than experts predicted
Researchers greatly underestimated AI progress in mathematics and language understanding. Those who were accurate in the short term did not share the same views on existential risks through 2100.
⚕️ AI develops two new antibiotics against drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA
AI analyzed 36 million chemical structures and created molecules atom by atom and killed the superbugs in laboratory tests and animal trials.
🤦♂️ Embarrassing criticism of the Prime Minister’s AI use (but justified against the Deputy PM)
I read their criticism with the same mix of shame and amusement as when someone drunkenly grabs the karaoke mic and belts out off-key—yet with full confidence.