💡 Warp News #283
📉 Have China's CO2 emissions peaked? 💰 Poverty in Jamaica drops. 🩸 Previously deadly blood cancer completely disappears.
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🦾 Warp AI meetups
There’s a need to learn, get inspired, push decision-makers, and ensure the AI transformation reaches broadly across society.
That’s why we’re gearing up to launch a series of meetups this fall and organize a larger summit next year, as well as start a newsletter about AI.
All of it with Warp’s approach – fact-based optimism – where we help each other understand how AI unleashes human potential and creativity.
We aim to launch this in Stockholm, focusing on how Sweden can catch up in the AI transformation. The country that led the way in the transition to the internet in the late 1990s is now falling behind. The same goes for the EU, compared to the US and China.
But we hope that the concept of a fact-based optimistic view of AI will work in multiple countries. If we gain good traction in Sweden, we’ll try to expand to others. Ideally, we’ll have the resources to record the events – and since they’ll be in English, everyone will be able to access them digitally.
The newsletter, in any case, will be available in English from the start.
I’d really love to hear what you think! Would you attend events like these? Could you or your company consider being a partner? Who should we reach out to?
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💉 Matt Ridley: The unexpected history and miraculous success of vaccines
From the archive.
At a time when the miraculous success of vaccines has transformed the battle against the pandemic it is fitting to recall the general idea, and unexpected history, behind vaccination, writes Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🔋 Denmark's first molten salt battery can power 100,000 homes for 10 hours
Denmark has launched a 1 GWh molten salt battery that can store renewable energy for up to two weeks with minimal loss. The system uses industrial byproducts from chlorine production and achieves 80-90 percent efficiency for co-generation of heat and electricity.
👩🏫 AI teachers provide major academic progress in Nigeria
Students who used the AI teacher ChatGPT-4 improved their test results by 0.31 standard deviations, equivalent to 1.5 to 2 years of regular schooling. The program cost only $48 per student for six weeks and proved to be highly cost-effective compared to other educational interventions.
🩸 Previously deadly blood cancer completely disappears in one-third of patients
One-third of 97 patients with incurable blood cancer became tumor-free after immunotherapy and remain healthy after five years. The treatment uses the patient's own white blood cells that are modified to attack the cancer. The cost is much lower than traditional medications.
💰 Poverty in Jamaica drops to lowest level ever
Poverty in Jamaica decreased to 8.2 percent in 2023, compared to 16.7 percent in 2021. It is the lowest figure measured since measurements began in 1989. Food poverty dropped to 2.8 percent, also the lowest level ever.
📉 Have China's CO2 emissions peaked? Declining for the first time thanks to clean energy
China's carbon dioxide emissions fell by 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2025 despite sharply increased energy demand. China's electricity sector emissions have decreased four times previously. However, the current reduction is the first time the main cause is growth in clean energy production.
🚚 CERN researchers transport antimatter by truck for the first time
CERN has developed a portable container that can transport antimatter by truck between laboratories. The test showed that protons could be transported 4 kilometers without a single particle disappearing during transport.
📉 EU looks set to reach climate targets for 2030
The Union is on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. The target that the EU has set is a 55 percent reduction.
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