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🚜 Agricultural land decreasing globally. 🅾️ Biotech company develops blood type that fits all patients. 👩💻 Almost ten percent of the world's population uses ChatGPT.
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🔖 Sam Altman’s favorite book
Last Thursday, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was honored in Germany. He was interviewed by Axel Springer’s CEO, Mathias Döpfner, who asked why his favorite book is The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch.
Sam Altman replied:
"The first 40 or 50 pages are, I think, the most wonderfully optimistic take on why, even in a world with AI, we’re never going to run out of things to do, ways to be useful, problems to solve, and things to explore. I also think they so beautifully explain how we got here, and why the relatively simple process we’ve followed throughout human history brought us to this incredible place."
The audio in the recording was a bit poor, which someone fixed using AI. As a result, the video feels slightly artificial.
I agree with Sam. The Beginning of Infinity is the best book I’ve ever read.
Here at Warp News, we have the joy and honor of having David as a Premium Supporter, and a couple of years ago he wrote an article for us that is just as worth reading:
💡 David Deutsch: Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism
David Deutsch
📗 Goal already reached!
Happily, we’ve already hit the goal of 250 pre-orders for my new book, The Fifth Acceleration. A huge thank you to all of you who pre-ordered!
Of course, it’s still possible to pre-order the book. Use the code Sundin5 for a 5 percent discount. For now, only available in Swedish.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🦾 AI helps 1200 researchers develop new materials in global hackathon
More than 100 teams developed AI tools that can predict crystal structures, track medicines, and design new chemicals in just two days.
🐸 Researchers successfully breed rare mountain frogs for first time
Seven frogs have been released into the wild at Tooloom National Park as part of a conservation project. The researchers have replicated the frogs' unusual habitat with correct temperature, substrate, plants and sound to enable breeding.
🚜 Agricultural land decreasing globally for the first time
The world's agricultural land peaked in the early 2000s and has been declining since then.
🅾️ Biotech company develops blood type that fits all patients
RedC Biotech develops technology to produce universal red blood cells that can be transfused to all patients. The technology eliminates the need for blood donors by cultivating blood cells from stem cells in large bioreactors.
📉 Tuberculosis medicine cheapest ever - enables treatment of thousands more
The money saved equals 71,000 additional bedaquiline courses.
👩💻 Almost ten percent of the world's population uses ChatGPT
ChatGPT had 700 million users per week in July 2025 The gender gap has disappeared – from 80 percent male users to 48 percent in June 2025.
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I'm giving a lot of talks and master classes on AI in several different countries. Happy to come to your organization.
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