💡 Warp News #294
🧫 Robots and AI help couples have children. 🥼 Lab-grown kidneys getting closer. 🌀 Super typhoon strikes China – you won’t believe what happened next.
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🎙️ Podcast about AI and The Fifth Acceleration
I recently joined Anders Arpteg, Henrik Göthberg and Goran Cvetanovski on the AIAW Podcast — AI-world’s answer to the Joe Rogan Experience. (Conversation in English.)
We talked about my book The Fifth Acceleration and the new report from the Swedish Internet Foundation showing how low AI adoption still is in Sweden.
And I once again got mind blown — this time by Claude Sonnet Imagine, a feature that lets AI build interactive software in real time, completely from scratch. A glimpse of what’s coming next.
📗 My next goal is already obsolete
Together with my publisher, we set an initial goal of 250 preorders for my new AI book The Fifth Acceleration. With your support, we reached it in just over a week.
So I raised the bar to 500 — but before I even had time to announce it, we passed that too.
Now I’m stretching the goal once more 🙊
New goal: 1,000 preorders before the release on November 3.
If you’re in Sweden, we’ve just launched a new special offer for preorders — available for one week only.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🚛 How he is leading Volvo through its greatest transformation ever
He leads Sweden’s largest company, which has been selling trucks for nearly a hundred years. Soon, they’ll stop doing that — and instead sell transport as a service. How do you lead such a massive company through that kind of transformation?
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🔋 European car manufacturers on track to meet EU emission targets
European car manufacturers sold 38 percent more electric cars during the first seven months of the year.
🌀 Super typhoon strikes China, worst storm of the year – you won’t believe what happened next
Super Typhoon Ragasa caused no fatalities when it reached mainland China last month.
🦾 AI finds ten times more earthquakes than previous methods
The techniques work better in noisy environments like cities and require less computing power than previous automated methods.
🔋 The world enters the age of electrotech
The energy system is undergoing the most extensive transformation since the transition from biomass to fossil fuels in the 18th century.
🥼 Lab-grown kidneys getting closer
Researchers have created kidney organoids that develop complex internal structure and produce urine when transplanted in mice.
🧫 Robots and AI help couples have children through IVF
At least 20 children have already been born through clinical trials where robots and AI perform IVF treatment with minimal human intervention.
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