{"id":14659,"date":"2024-11-04T04:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T04:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2024-11-04T04:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T04:59:18","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=14659","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2024\/10\/google-ceo-says-over-25-of-new-google-code-is-generated-by-ai\/\"><strong>Google CEO Says Over 25% of New Google Code Is Generated by AI<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Benj Edwards | Ars Technica<br \/><\/em>\u201cWe\u2019ve all the time used instruments to construct new instruments, and builders are utilizing AI to proceed that custom. On Tuesday, Google\u2019s CEO revealed that AI techniques now generate greater than 1 \/ 4 of latest code for its merchandise, with human programmers overseeing the computer-generated contributions. The assertion, made throughout Google\u2019s\u00a0Q3 2024 earnings name, exhibits how AI instruments are already having a large influence on software program improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/28\/business\/waymo-investment-robot-taxis.html\"><strong>Waymo Raises $5.6 Billion From Outside Investors<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Eli Tan | The New York Occasions<br \/><\/em>\u201cAmid its push to develop its fleet of autonomous robotic taxis and broaden into new cities, Waymo has raised $5.6 billion from exterior traders, its largest funding spherical so far. \u2026The recent cash comes behind Waymo\u2019s\u00a0first style of economic success. Its robotic taxis at the moment are finishing over 100,000 rides every week in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles, double its quantity in Could, and can be working in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta by 2025 by way of a\u00a0partnership\u00a0with Uber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/physical-intelligence-home-robot\/\"><strong>This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robots<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Will Knight | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201cBodily Intelligence, also called PI or \u03c0, was based earlier this yr by a number of distinguished robotics researchers to pursue the brand new robotics method impressed by breakthroughs in AI\u2019s language talents. \u2018The quantity of information we\u2019re coaching on is bigger than any robotics mannequin ever made, by a really vital margin, to our data,\u2019 says Sergey Levine, a cofounder of Bodily Intelligence and an affiliate professor at UC Berkeley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-off-the-shelf-stellarator\"><strong><span class=\"widget__headline-text custom-post-headline\" data-type=\"text\">Nuclear Fusion\u2019s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator<\/span><\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Tom Clynes | IEEE Spectrum<br \/><\/em>\u201cThe PPPL staff invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, accomplished final yr, utilizing primarily off-the-shelf parts. Its core is a glass vacuum chamber surrounded by a 3D-printed nylon shell that anchors 9,920 meticulously positioned everlasting rare-earth magnets. Sixteen copper-coil electromagnets resembling big slices of pineapple wrap across the shell crosswise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/wall-street-giants-to-make-50-billion-bet-on-ai-and-power-projects-b435a549\"><strong>Wall Street Giants to Make $50 Billion Bet on AI and Power Projects<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Katherine Blunt | The Wall Avenue Journal<br \/><\/em>\u201cThe funding is a guess on AI\u2019s big vitality wants and the mounting stress it&#8217;s placing on the US energy grid. \u2026The businesses stated they&#8217;re now working along with massive tech corporations to speed up their\u00a0entry to electrical energy, which has turn into constrained in components of the US as data-center builders compete for energy sources and entry to the grid. \u2018The capital wants are big, and one of many massive bottlenecks\u2014possibly the bottleneck\u2014is electrical energy availability,\u2019 ECP founder and senior companion Doug Kimmelman stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/green-concrete\"><strong><span class=\"widget__headline-text custom-post-headline\" data-type=\"text\">The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tons of Concrete<\/span><\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Ted C. Fishman | IEEE Spectrum<br \/><\/em>\u201cTo the informal observer, the information trade can appear incorporeal, its merchandise conjured out of weightless bits. However as I stand beside the busy building website for\u00a0DataBank\u2019s ATL4, what impresses me most is the gargantuan quantity of fabric\u2014largely concrete\u2014that offers form to the goliath that can home, safe, energy, and funky the {hardware} of AI. Huge information is massive concrete. And that poses a giant downside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/30\/24283516\/waymo-google-gemini-llm-ai-robotaxi\"><strong>Waymo Explores Using Google\u2019s Gemini to Train Its Robotaxis<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Andrew J. Hawkins | The Verge<br \/><\/em>\u201cWaymo has\u00a0lengthy touted its ties\u00a0to Google\u2019s DeepMind and its a long time of AI analysis as a strategic benefit over its rivals within the autonomous driving house. Now, the Alphabet-owned firm is taking it a step additional by growing a brand new coaching mannequin for its robotaxis constructed on Google\u2019s multimodal massive language mannequin (MLLM)\u00a0Gemini.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2024\/10\/spacex-has-caught-a-massive-rocket-so-whats-next\/\"><strong>SpaceX Has Caught a Massive Rocket. So What\u2019s Next?<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Eric Berger | Ars Technica<br \/><\/em>\u201cRight here\u2019s our greatest try to piece collectively the milestones and main objectives of the Starship program over the subsequent a number of years earlier than it unlocks the potential to land people on the Moon for NASA\u2019s Artemis Program and begins flying demonstration missions to Mars. For enjoyable, we\u2019ve additionally included some estimated dates for every of those milestones. These symbolize our greatest guesses, and so they\u2019re nearly actually incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/planet-orbiting-3-stars\/\"><strong>Meet the First Star System to \u2018Solve\u2019 the 3-Body Problem<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Ethan Siegel | Huge Assume<br \/><\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s simple to have planets that orbit round a single star, and in a double star system, you&#8217;ll be able to both orbit shut to at least one star or removed from each members.\u00a0These configurations are steady, however including a 3rd star into the combination was thought to render the formation of planets unstable, as mutual gravitational interactions would finally drive their ejection.\u00a0That knowledge acquired thrown out the window with the invention of GW Orionis, which boasts a number of large mud rings and probably much more planets, all orbiting three stars directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@davidclode?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">David Clode<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-close-up-of-a-green-and-purple-leaf-Zos3GiCLaiA?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/11\/02\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-november-2-2\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Says Over 25% of New Google Code Is Generated by AIBenj Edwards | Ars Technica\u201cWe\u2019ve all the time used instruments to construct new instruments, and builders are utilizing AI to proceed that custom. On Tuesday, Google\u2019s CEO revealed that AI techniques now generate greater than 1 \/ 4 of latest code for its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,5744,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-14659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-november","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}