Hope you had a chill weekend 👋 Did you ever watch Silo, the show where humanity hides underground because of an apocalypse nobody remembers? Fun fiction. Until you find out OpenAI’s chief scientist wanted to build an actual bunker before releasing AGI. Yep, a real underground fallout shelter. For their team. Just in case civilization collapsed. Turns out when OpenAI says “safety first,” they mean their safety, not ours.
🛰️ China is building the first AI supercomputer in space. The cloud just left Earth. Satellites are now being fitted with solar-powered processors that can analyze data in orbit, without sending it back to Earth. No cooling systems, no delay – just lasers linking 2,800 nodes into one autonomous AI powered network. A sovereign intelligence grid quietly orbiting the planet. Good luck reigning in something you can’t touch.
⚡ Doctors are fighting cancer with electricity. You’d think someone would’ve tried this sooner. Novocure’s device treats glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, by using gentle electric fields to interrupt cancer cell division. Patients who use it live nearly 5 months longer on average. So far the results have been shocking.
🤥 AI is getting worse at summarizing research. Which is fine – unless you work in science, medicine, or reality. A new study from the Royal Society tested 5,000 AI-generated summaries and found newer models are more likely to miss the point than older ones. Up to 73% of answers that sounded right were actually wrong. The smarter the model, the more confidently it botched the facts. So basically AI chatbots are high-speed BS generators with a user interface.
💎 Unlimited clean energy is one step closer to reality. And all it took was 192 lasers blasting diamonds inside a gold orb. Scientists at the US Dept of Energy triggered nuclear fusion by firing synchronized lasers at a diamond-coated fuel pellet. The latest experiment produced 8.6 megajoules of energy, more than double their 2022 record. Vaporizing diamonds for science makes your startup’s burn rate look efficient.
Coding Agent
Codex from OpenAI lets you build software just by describing it. Type your idea in plain English, and watch it deliver working code, fix bugs, and even run tests automatically. Founders can quickly validate concepts and ship MVPs without waiting on busy dev teams or costly freelancers.
Why does this matter? Codex is shifting AI from coding assistant to coding partner. It unlocks speed for product teams who’d rather spend time iterating than debugging. Your next MVP might be just a sentence away.
☄️ Australia’s first orbital rocket suffers a pre-launch climax. At least SpaceX buys you dinner first. An electrical fault triggered the nose cone of startup Gilmour Space’s Eris rocket to pop off hours before launch. No fuel had been loaded and no one was hurt, but the mission is delayed until they ship in a new fairing. Guess Down Under’s space dreams just got a cold shower.
🪫 Meta’s big AI bet runs on old-school power moves. They’re dropping $10 billion on a 4-million-square-foot Louisiana data center, powered by three new gas plants. That’s enough fossil-fueled AI to light up a small city – and burn through corporate climate promises. If AGI learns from its creators, we’re screwed.