💡 Warp News #279

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📖 Interview with Ericsson's CEO is the first bonus material from the book

Not everything said in the interviews for my forthcoming book on AI will make it into the book. Not because it’s bad, but because the book would be very thick if I included everything—and the book’s focus is narrower than Warp News.

So it’s perfect that I can publish it on Warp News instead. There’s plenty of interesting material, I promise.

I begin with Ericsson’s CEO, Börje Ekholm, who is also a real soundbite machine. For example, here’s what he thought when Ericsson’s chair asked if he wanted to become CEO:

“That he was drunk.”

Feel free to read the interview with Börje Ekholm and discover why he’s a technology optimist.

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🦾 Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm rails against AI regulations and explains why he's a tech optimist: "It has always turned out to be the right thing so far"

"If your fastest growing employee category in Europe is lawyers, then I have some serious concerns. I still don’t know a lawyer who has built a product," says Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm about AI regulations.

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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week

💰 Gates Foundation will spend $200 billion on charity over the next 20 years

Bill Gates has decided to donate virtually his entire fortune through the Gates Foundation. During the foundation's first 25 years, over 100 billion dollars were donated, and Gates plans to double this amount to more than 200 billion dollars by 2045.

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🌎 Op-ed: Terraforming – a key to slowing climate change

The climate debate has long been stuck between blame and denial—but now it's time for action. What if the solution lies in actively reshaping Earth’s climate and ecosystems through terraforming?

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😊 Young Americans are getting happier

The percentage of university students with symptoms of depression has decreased from 44 percent in 2022 to 38 percent in 2024. Studies show that this trend applies to American youth in general, with decreasing rates of depression and suicide.

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💯 New drug shows one hundred percent protection against HIV infection

A clinical trial showed that the drug lenacapavir protected 100 percent of women and girls against HIV infection. The drug only needs to be injected twice a year to provide full protection. New results suggest that an annual injection may be sufficient for long-lasting protection.

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🌝 Astronomers discover 128 new moons around Saturn

Saturn now has a total of 274 moons, making it the leading planet in the solar system in terms of moon count. The newly discovered moons are irregular objects just a few kilometers in size and can provide insights into the early history of the solar system.

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🍆 Genetic technology enables larger and tastier tomatoes and eggplants

Researchers have discovered genes that control how large tomatoes and eggplants can grow. New techniques in gene editing can lead to the development of new varieties of traditional tomatoes and eggplants that are both larger and tastier.

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