💡 Warp News #310
🔬 Microplastic levels much lower than previously thought. 👨💻 Office workers earn more and grow in numbers despite AI warnings. 🧒 Polio outbreaks stopped.
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🙃 The fact that I was wrong proves that I was right
My core message about generative AI is that it frees human creativity. I wrote that here on Warp News one month after ChatGPT was released – and I’ve been banging on about it ever since.
Despite that, I still managed to underestimate its power.
The real shift with generative AI is that we can use our ordinary human language to get the AI to do things.
Lovable has become the fastest-growing software startup in history by letting us build apps and websites simply by writing how we want them to look and function.
If Lovable’s founders had come to me before they launched, I would probably have understood the idea around apps – but told them to skip the website part. That’s a problem we’ve already solved, focus on apps, I would have said.
I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Being able to create beautiful, high-quality websites just by writing how you want them to look unleashes enormous amounts of pent-up creativity.
I write about this in this week’s article: 💙 Don’t repeat my mistake – you really have to try Lovable
Mathias Sundin
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🔬 Microplastic levels in the atmosphere much lower than previously thought
New estimates show that the amount of atmospheric microplastics is 100 to 10,000 times lower than researchers previously calculated. The study compiled 2,782 measurements from 283 locations worldwide to create a reliable global baseline.
🛫 Fewer obese passengers – thanks to weight loss pills –reduce airlines' fuel needs
Analysts estimate that airlines could reduce fuel costs by up to 1.5% if average passenger weight drops by 10%. The largest American airlines are consuming approximately 16 billion gallons of fuel. Lower fuel consumption also means reduced carbon dioxide emissions from air traffic.
🛩️ Zipline surpasses 2 million drone deliveries and expands to new cities
Zipline has completed over 2 million commercial deliveries with autonomous drones and flown more than 125 million miles without serious injuries. Zipline started in 2016 by delivering blood and medical products in Rwanda.
🛰️ Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches satellite network to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink
Blue Origin plans to launch 5,408 satellites for a new communications network called TeraWave. The network will be able to deliver data speeds of up to 6 terabits per second anywhere on Earth. The first satellites are scheduled to be placed in orbit during the fourth quarter of 2027.
🧒 Polio outbreaks stopped and millions of children vaccinated against measles and malaria
Polio outbreaks in Indonesia and Madagascar have been officially declared over after intensive vaccination campaigns. Nigeria has carried out one of its largest vaccination campaigns ever, reaching approximately 106 million children.
👨💻 Office workers earn more and grow in numbers despite AI warnings
The number of white-collar jobs in the US has increased by approximately 3 million since ChatGPT launched in late 2022. Occupations combining technical expertise with coordination and judgment have grown the most, while purely routine work is declining.
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