{"id":17037,"date":"2025-02-17T00:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T00:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=17037"},"modified":"2025-02-17T00:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T00:28:04","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-february-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=17037","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"artificial_intelligence\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\/\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/02\/sam-altman-lays-out-roadmap-for-openais-long-awaited-gpt-5-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sam Altman Lays Out Roadmap for OpenAI\u2019s Long-Awaited GPT-5 Model<\/strong><\/a><em>Benj Edwards | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u00a0introduced\u00a0a roadmap for a way the corporate plans to launch GPT-5, the long-awaited followup to\u00a02023&#8217;s GPT-4\u00a0AI language mannequin that made enormous waves in each tech and coverage circles world wide. In a reply to a query on X, Altman mentioned GPT-5 could be coming in &#8216;months,&#8217; suggesting a launch later in 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"robotics\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/robotics\/\">Robotics<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/02\/14\/1111920\/chinas-electric-vehicle-giants-pivot-humanoid-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>China\u2019s EV Giants Are Betting Big on Humanoid Robots<\/strong><\/a><em>Caiwei Chen | MIT Know-how Evaluation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s changing into clear that China is now dedicated to changing into a world chief in robotics and automation, simply because it did with EVs. Wang Xingxing, the CEO of Unitree Robots, mentioned this effectively in a current interview to native media: &#8216;Robotics is the place EVs have been a decade in the past\u2014a trillion-yuan battlefield ready to be claimed.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"artificial_intelligence\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\/\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/anthropic-strikes-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Anthropic Strikes Back<\/strong><\/a><em>Stephanie Palazzolo | The Data<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Anthropic] has developed a hybrid AI mannequin that features reasoning capabilities, which principally means the mannequin makes use of extra computational assets to calculate solutions to arduous questions. However the mannequin may also deal with easier duties rapidly, with out the additional work, by appearing like a conventional giant language mannequin. The corporate plans to launch it within the coming weeks, based on an individual who\u2019s used it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"biotechnology\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/biotechnology\/\">Biotechnology<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/02\/using-ai-to-design-proteins-is-now-easy-making-enzymes-remains-hard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>AI Used to Design a Multi-Step Enzyme That Can Digest Some Plastics<\/strong><\/a><em>John Timmer | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, there is not an enzyme for a lot of reactions we might sorely wish to catalyze\u2014issues like digesting plastics or incorporating carbon dioxide into extra advanced molecules. &#8230;With the arrival of AI-driven protein design, nonetheless, we will now probably design issues which might be in contrast to something present in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"computing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/computing\/\">Computing<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91278505\/encharge-ai-banks-100-million-for-its-energy-slashing-analog-chips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>This DARPA-Backed Startup Banked $100 Million for Its Energy-Slashing Analog Chips<\/strong><\/a><em>Alex Pasternack | Quick Firm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnCharge says that, for a variety of AI use instances, its specialised chips, or accelerators, require as much as 20 instances much less power in comparison with right now\u2019s main AI chips. &#8230;Moderately than utilizing solely digital transistors to carry out a number of the multiplication operations on the coronary heart of AI inference\u2014the continual computations that produce chatbot outputs\u2014EnCharge\u2019s chips exploit the non-binary wonders of the analog world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"tech\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/technology\/\">Tech<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/will-we-get-a-1-trillion-private-tech-firm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Will We Get a $1 Trillion Private Tech Firm?<\/strong><\/a><em>Cory Weinberg | The Data<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will a personal\u00a0tech firm attain a $1 trillion valuation within the coming years?\u00a0It\u2019s not a ridiculous query. A few corporations appear to be potential candidates. OpenAI is closing in on $300 billion\u00a0in its financing with SoftBank, and SpaceX not too long ago shot to $350 billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"robotics\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/robotics\/\">Robotics<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/meta-report-ai-humanoid-robot-work-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Meta\u2019s Next Big Bet Might Be AI Humanoid Robots for At-Home Chores<\/strong><\/a><em>Nadeem Sarwar | Digital Tendencies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Meta\u2019s] pursuits have swayed wildly over the previous few years. Telephones, crypto, tablets, metaverse, sensible glasses, and eventually, AI. The subsequent avenue for Meta is outwardly humanoid robots.\u00a0Based on\u00a0Bloomberg, the corporate is pouring assets into the event of AI-powered humanoid robots. &#8216;Meta plans to work by itself humanoid robotic {hardware}, with an preliminary give attention to family chores,&#8217; says the report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"future\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/future\/\">FUTURE<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/02\/13\/1111882\/motor-neuron-diseases-took-their-voices-ai-bringing-them-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Motor Neuron Diseases Took Their Voices. AI Is Bringing Them Back.<\/strong><\/a><em>Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Know-how Evaluation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rodriguez and his spouse, Maria Fernandez, who stay in Miami, thought they&#8217;d by no means hear his voice once more. Then they re-created it utilizing AI. After feeding previous recordings of Rodriguez\u2019s voice right into a software skilled on voices from movie, tv, radio, and podcasts, the couple have been capable of generate a voice clone\u2014a method for Jules to speak in his &#8216;previous voice.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"computing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/computing\/\">Computing<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/swave-holographic-ar-glasses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>This Breakthrough Holographic Display Could Make AR Glasses a Reality in 2026<\/strong><\/a><em>Alan Actually | Digital Tendencies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Swave CEO Mike Noonen informed me the invoice of supplies (BOM) is simply $50 per eye and the anticipated weight of AR glasses utilizing HXR know-how may very well be lower than 50 grams. The FoV and obvious decision are tunable with a view as huge as 120 levels and a retina-like decision of as much as 60 pixels per diploma (PPD). Battery life is estimated at greater than 10 hours, making these appropriate for each day put on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h4 heading css-1bsu3rs\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"tech\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/technology\/\">Tech<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US<\/strong><\/a><em>Kate Knibbs | Wired<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This ruling is a blow to AI corporations, based on Cornell College professor of digital and web legislation James Grimmelmann: &#8216;If this choice is adopted elsewhere, it is actually dangerous for the generative AI corporations.&#8217; Grimmelmann believes that Bibas\u2019 judgement means that a lot of the case legislation that generative AI corporations are citing to argue honest use is &#8216;irrelevant.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/02\/11\/1111467\/the-dream-of-offshore-rocket-launches-is-finally-blasting-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Dream of Offshore Rocket Launches Is Finally Blasting Off<\/strong><\/a><em>Becky Ferreira | MIT Know-how Evaluation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;The easiest way to construct a future the place we&#8217;ve dozens, a whole lot, or perhaps hundreds of spaceports is to construct them at sea,&#8217; says Tom Marotta, CEO and founding father of the Spaceport Firm, which is working to determine offshore launch hubs. &#8216;It\u2019s very arduous to discover a thousand acres on the coast again and again to construct spaceports. It\u2019s very simple to construct the identical ship again and again.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2025\/02\/15\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-february-15-2\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence Sam Altman Lays Out Roadmap for OpenAI\u2019s Long-Awaited GPT-5 ModelBenj Edwards | Ars Technica &#8220;On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u00a0introduced\u00a0a roadmap for a way the corporate plans to launch GPT-5, the long-awaited followup to\u00a02023&#8217;s GPT-4\u00a0AI language mannequin that made enormous waves in each tech and coverage circles world wide. 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