Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters:
U.S. insurer Lemonade said on Wednesday it would offer a 50% rate cut for drivers of Tesla electric vehicles when the automaker’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver assistance software is steering beca… Continue reading US Insurer ‘Lemonade’ Cuts Rates 50% for Drivers Using Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Software
Three co-founders of the game studio That’s No Moon “are suing another co-founder for allegedly hijacking the company’s website domain name,” reports the gaming news site Aftermath, “taking the website offline and disabling employee access to email acc… Continue reading A Game Studio’s Fired Co-Founder Hijacked Its Domain Name, a New Lawsuit Alleges
TechCrunch reports:
On Wednesday, Anthropic released a revised version of Claude’s Constitution, a living document that provides a “holistic” explanation of the “context in which Claude operates and the kind of entity we would like Claude to be….” … Continue reading Anthropic Updates Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ Just In Case Chatbot Has a Consciousness
Slashdot reader hackingbear summarizes this report from Bloomberg: China consumed totally 10.4 trillion kilowatt hours (10.4 petaWh) in 2025 according to data from the National Energy Administration. That’s the highest annual electricity use ever recor… Continue reading China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 – Double the US
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
Led by Texas and New Hampshire, U.S. states across the national map, both red and blue in political stripes, are developing bitcoin strategic reserves and bringing cryptocurrencies onto their books th… Continue reading More US States are Putting Bitcoin on Public Balance Sheets
This week Noema magazine published a 7,000-word exploration of our modern “Mythology Of Conscious AI” written by a neuroscience professor who directs the University of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science:
The very idea of conscious AI rests on the … Continue reading Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?
“Astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time,” reports the Guardian:
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will track the colossal black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy throughout Mar… Continue reading EHT Astronomers Will Film Swirling of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time
Porsche made an announcement Friday. In Europe they sold more electrified Porsches last year than pure combustion-engined models, reports Electrek:
in Europe, a majority (57.9%) of Porsche’s deliveries were plug-ins, with 1/3 of its European sales bei… Continue reading Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year than Pure Gas-Powered Models
U.S. college graduates “have historically found jobs more quickly than people with only a high school degree,” writes Bloomberg.
“But that advantage is becoming a thing of the past, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland… Continue reading Young US College Graduates Suddenly Aren’t Finding Jobs Faster Than Non-College Graduates
Last week a University of Arizona astronomy professor “watched anxiously…as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.”
In 2018 NASA had approached Daniel Apai to help build the telescope, w… Continue reading SpaceX Launches New NASA Telescope to Help JWST Study Exoplanets