💡 Warp News #287
🍔 Teenagers eat less fast food. 💰 Argentina's poverty drops. 🌨️ AI systems make weather forecasts more accurate
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We have decided on the title of my book: The Fifth Acceleration.
But it still needs a subtitle! I got a lot of valuable feedback from you last year, before I emailed a description to publishers, and I’m hoping for the same great help now.
I’ve made a quick survey that takes only 38 seconds to answer. You just pick one of three suggested subtitles, and if you wish, you can leave a comment (maybe all three options suck?).
The book will be released in Sweden by Mondial Publishing in the first week of November.
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Mathias Sundin
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🌨️ AI systems make weather forecasts 20% more accurate while using much less energy
New AI can generate 51 different weather forecasts simultaneously to show all possible scenarios. The system creates forecasts over 10 times faster than physics-based systems while reducing energy consumption by approximately 1,000 times.
💰 Argentina's urban poverty drops to lowest level since 2018
Poverty in Argentina's cities fell to 31.6 percent in the first half of 2025, the lowest level since 2018. Extreme poverty decreased from 18.2 percent to 7.4 percent in one year.
📉 Diarrhea-related deaths among children reduced by 72 percent in 25 years
Deaths from diarrhea among children under five have dropped from 3.1 million annually in 1997 to 340,000 today. Rotavirus vaccines that cost $200 per dose in the 2000s now cost about one dollar. Since 1990, 2.6 billion people have gained access to safe drinking water.
🚾 Solar energy can recover ammonia from wastewater and reduce climate emissions
Researchers have developed a cheap method for recovering ammonia from wastewater using solar energy. The system can both purify wastewater and provide farmers with cheaper fertilizer. The economic analysis shows that the system can pay for itself in 3.5 years.
🔋 AI creates new battery materials that could revolutionize energy storage
The AI models identified five new porous transition metal oxide structures with large open channels ideal for ion transport. The technique combines two AI tools that together can explore thousands of crystal structures significantly faster than traditional laboratory experiments.
🍔 American kids and teenagers eat less fast food
Children and teenagers between 2 and 19 years old consumed 11.4 percent of their daily calories from fast food in 2023. This is a decrease from nearly 14 percent during 2013 and 2014 according to CDC data.
🩺 AI system diagnoses patients four times better than experienced doctors
The AI tool correctly diagnosed 85.5 percent of cases compared to doctors' 20 percent. The system ordered fewer scans and tests to reach the correct diagnosis than human doctors.
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