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🚗 Electric vehicles outclass fossil fuel cars. 💵 Study: Every generation has had higher income than the previous one. 💡 Renewable electricity overtook coal as the world's largest power source in 2025.
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🤦♀️ Afraid of what makes us safer
A few weeks ago, the AI company Anthropic announced that they had created a new AI model called Mythos.
What Mythos can do is detect (and patch) security vulnerabilities in software. And it seems to be better at this than anything else currently available. For example, it found 271 vulnerabilities in the web browser Firefox.
Vulnerabilities that have now been fixed. It is harder to hack Firefox.
It is reported that Mythos has already found and fixed thousands of vulnerabilities in software. Our digital lives are becoming safer.
One might think that this is a good thing. But no!
Swedish Radio: New AI model sparks panic: “Cyber Armageddon”
Security News: The AI model Mythos raises concerns – expert on the risks
NYT: Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms
The Week: The fear over Anthropic’s new AI model Mythos
So we have a tool that makes the internet SAFER, and all the reporting is about how Mythos COULD make the internet less safe IF malicious actors used it.
But they don’t!
Mythos is being used to make the internet safer. De facto, it is used for that. Not “could be used,” but is used. Mythos is making the internet safer RIGHT NOW.
And all we are doing is panicking about an imagined alternative reality where the opposite is true.
What are people doing?
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
💡 Renewable electricity overtook coal as the world's largest power source in 2025
Solar and wind accounted for 99% of the growth in global electricity demand during 2025. Solar energy grew by 636 TWh – more electricity than all LNG exports through the Strait of Hormuz can produce. For the first time, coal power accounts for less than a third of the world's electricity generation.
📚 AI deciphers handwriting and makes 350,000 hidden books searchable – saves ten years of work
Uppsala University Library has used AI to digitize a handwritten book catalog. The work corresponds to more than ten years of manual labor and has been completed in a much shorter time. The material is now easier to find and use for researchers and the general public.
🚰 Desalinated seawater could ease pressure on the Colorado River
San Diego is negotiating with Arizona and Nevada to sell water from North America's largest desalination plant. The agreement could supply roughly 500,000 people with drinking water annually. San Diego has reduced its water imports from 95 percent to 10 percent over three decades.
🐴 World's only surviving wild horse species back from the brink of extinction
The Przewalski's horse was declared extinct in the wild during the 1970s and has been reintroduced through a conservation program launched in 1985. Przewalski's horse is the world's only surviving wild horse species and has an evolutionary history of 60 million years.
💵 Study: Every generation has had higher income than the previous one
Every generation over the past six decades has had higher income than the previous one. American millennials aged 36–40 had a median household income 20 percent higher than Generation X. The increase happened without more work hours – earlier generations' growth was partly driven by increased work.
🦾 Medra builds autonomous lab, robots controlled with everyday language
Medra has raised $52 million to build a 38,000-square-foot autonomous robot lab in the Bay Area. Scientists can direct the robots with everyday language, much like writing to ChatGPT. The robots work around the clock on drug research for partners such as Genentech and Addition Therapeutics.
🚗 Electric vehicles outclass fossil fuel cars – sweep all categories at the 2026 World Car Awards
Consumers rank affordability, efficiency, quality, and safety as the most important factors in a car in 2026, areas where electric vehicles perform strongly. The BMW iX3 Neue Klasse won both Electric Vehicle of the Year and the Car of the Year award.
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