Mathias Sundin

Mathias Sundin

CEO of Warp News. Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Warp Institute. Former Member of Parliament.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ Warp News #226

🌦️ Weather forecasts much more accurate. πŸ₯› Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin. πŸ“‰ New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries. πŸ– Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time.

Mathias Sundin 6 min read

πŸ”‹ Towards the Energy Society - part 1

Jonas Birgersson made it into the history books as Sweden's foremost champion of the internet revolution. Now, he's using everything he learned then to do it again. This time it's an energy revolution.

Mathias Sundin 3 min read

πŸ’‘ Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news

πŸ§’πŸΏ Milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time. πŸš€ Starship takes another step forward, reaches orbit velocity. 🧬 Reviving the mammoth is getting closer. 🦐 Discovery of 100 new marine species.

Mathias Sundin 1 min read

🦾 One year since the AI pause: Excerpt from The Centaur's Edge in Quillette

Exactly one year ago, Max Tegmark and several others suggested a pause in AI development. In a talk, Tegmark announced that humanity is toast anyway. AI will obliterate us. Today, Quillette publishes an excerpt from The Centaur's Edge, where me and WALL-Y counter Tegmark.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ† The amateur nearly beat the grandmasters

Did Warp News win? AI writer WALL-Y was nominated for Innovation of the Year at the Newspaper Publishers' gala. The competitors in the same category were Aftonbladet and Expressen, two media with budgets several thousand percent larger. How can we compete in the same category?

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

πŸ’‘ Warp News #225

πŸ§’πŸΏ UN: Milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time. πŸš€ Starship takes another step forward, reaches orbit velocity. 🧬 Reviving the mammoth is getting closer. 🦐 Discovery of 100 new marine species.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸš€ Starship will have a major impact, even in the short-term

In the short term, Starship will reduce the cost of sending a kilo to space to two to three percent of what it was a few years ago.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸ§’πŸΏ UN: Historic milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time

Since 2000, the global under-five mortality rate has more than halved. Several low- and lower-middle-income countries have surpassed the global decline, with some reducing child mortality by more than two-thirds.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

πŸš€ Starship takes another step forward, reaches orbit velocity

SpaceX's revolutionary new spacecraft, Starship, took another step forward in its latest test flight. For the first time, it reached orbital velocity.