{"id":19067,"date":"2025-05-18T04:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T04:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19067"},"modified":"2025-05-18T04:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T04:17:50","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19067","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-blocks-60\">\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.technologyreview.com\/2025\/05\/14\/1116438\/google-deepminds-new-ai-uses-large-language-models-to-crack-real-world-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Google DeepMind\u2019s New AI Agent Uses Large Language Models to Crack Real-World Problems<\/strong><\/a><em>Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Expertise Overview<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google DeepMind has as soon as once more used giant language fashions to find new options to long-standing issues in math and laptop science. This time the agency has proven that its method can&#8217;t solely sort out unsolved theoretical puzzles, however enhance a spread of vital real-world processes as effectively.&#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=\"biotechnology\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/biotechnology\/\">Biotechnology<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/05\/15\/1116524\/this-baby-boy-was-treated-with-the-first-personalized-gene-editing-drug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>This Baby Boy Was Treated With the First Personalized Gene-Editing Drug<\/strong><\/a><em>Antonio Regalado | MIT Expertise Overview<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Docs say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing therapy in lower than seven months and used it to deal with a child with a lethal metabolic situation. The rapid-fire try to rewrite the kid\u2019s DNA marks the primary time gene modifying has been tailor-made to deal with a single particular person, in accordance with a report printed within the New England Journal of Medication.&#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=\"energy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/energy\/\">Energy<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/05\/analysis-shows-that-chinas-emissions-are-dropping-due-to-renewables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Renewable Power Reversing China\u2019s Emissions Growth<\/strong><\/a><em>John Timmer | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not the primary time that China&#8217;s emissions have gone down over the course of a yr, however in all earlier instances the trigger was primarily financial\u2014pushed by issues just like the COVID pandemic or the 2008 housing disaster. The most recent shift, nonetheless, was pushed largely by the nation&#8217;s power sector, which noticed a 2 p.c decline in emissions over the previous yr.&#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=\"computing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/computing\/\">COMPUTING<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/apple-brain-computer-interface-9ec69919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Apple to Support Brain-Implant Control of Its Devices<\/strong><\/a><em>Rolfe Winkler | The Wall Avenue Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The corporate is taking early steps to allow individuals to manage their iPhones with neural alerts captured by a brand new technology of mind implants. It may make Apple gadgets extra accessible to tens of 1000&#8217;s of people that can\u2019t use their palms due to extreme spinal wire accidents or ailments equivalent to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.&#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=\"future\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/future\/\">Future<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/16\/science\/federally-funded-science-breakthroughs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything<\/strong><\/a><em>Alan Burdick and Emily Anthes | The New York Instances<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Fundamental analysis is the pacemaker of technological progress,&#8217; Vannevar Bush, who laid out the postwar schema for presidency analysis help, wrote in a 1945 report back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Look no additional than Google, which acquired its begin in 1994 with a $4 million federal grant to assist construct digital libraries; the corporate is now a $2 trillion verb.&#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:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/12\/improvements-in-reasoning-ai-models-may-slow-down-soon-analysis-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Improvements in &#8216;Reasoning&#8217; AI Models May Slow Down Soon, Analysis Finds<\/strong><\/a><em>Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An evaluation by Epoch AI, a nonprofit AI analysis institute, suggests the AI business could not have the ability to eke huge efficiency positive factors out of reasoning AI fashions for for much longer. As quickly as inside a yr, progress from reasoning fashions may decelerate, in accordance with the report\u2019s findings.&#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.wsj.com\/articles\/forget-humanoids-at-mit-worms-and-turtles-are-inspiring-a-new-generation-of-robots-3abf7d5f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots<\/strong><\/a><em>Isabelle Bousquette | The Wall Avenue Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone seems to be\u00a0obsessive about humanoid robots\u00a0proper now, however the director of MIT\u2019s Pc Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow\u2019s clever bodily machines might be one thing radically totally different. Assume gentle and squishy robots, says\u00a0Daniela Rus. Image versatile robots, and even edible ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/05\/venus-aerospace-flies-its-rotating-detonation-rocket-engine-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>For the First Time in the US, a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Takes Flight<\/strong><\/a><em>Eric Berger | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea has beforehand been examined in a handful of different international locations, however by no means with a high-thrust engine. &#8216;By proving this engine works past the lab, Venus brings the world nearer to a future the place hypersonic journey\u2014traversing the globe in underneath two hours\u2014turns into doable,&#8217; Duggleby instructed Ars.&#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.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/16\/technology\/what-is-agi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Why We\u2019re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon<\/strong><\/a><em>Cade Metz | The New York Instances<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People know  take care of a chaotic and continually altering world. Machines battle to grasp the surprising\u2014the challenges, each small and enormous, that don&#8217;t seem like what has occurred up to now. &#8230;For this reason Mr. Frosst and different skeptics say pushing machines to human-level intelligence would require a minimum of one massive concept that the world\u2019s technologists haven&#8217;t but dreamed up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-blocks-40\">\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=\"future\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/future\/\">Future<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/05\/12\/1116295\/how-a-new-type-of-ai-is-helping-police-skirt-facial-recognition-bans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How a New Type of AI Is Helping Police Skirt Facial Recognition Bans<\/strong><\/a><em>James O&#8217;Donnell | MIT Expertise Overview<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police and federal companies have discovered a controversial new strategy to skirt the rising patchwork of legal guidelines that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI mannequin that may monitor individuals utilizing attributes like physique dimension, gender, hair shade and magnificence, clothes, and equipment.&#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=\"future\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/future\/\">Future<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2025\/05\/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-excerpt\/682798\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u2018We\u2019re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI\u2019<\/strong><\/a><em>Karen Hao | The Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drama [at OpenAI] highlighted one of the vital pressing questions of our technology: How will we govern synthetic intelligence? With AI on monitor to rewire a terrific many different essential capabilities in society, that query is actually asking: How will we be certain that we\u2019ll make our future higher, not worse?&#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=\"future\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/future\/\">Future<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/14\/technology\/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Your AI Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon<\/strong><\/a><em>Steve Lohr | The New York Instances<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Individuals ought to\u00a0cease coaching radiologists now,&#8217; Geoffrey Hinton mentioned [in 2016], including that it was &#8216;simply utterly apparent&#8217; that inside 5 years AI would outperform people in that discipline. At the moment, radiologists\u2014the doctor specialists in medical imaging who look contained in the physique to diagnose and deal with illness\u2014are nonetheless in excessive demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/orbit-policing-spacecraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>New Spacecraft Aims to Police Satellites in Orbit<\/strong><\/a><em>Tereza Pultarova | IEEE Spectrum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cellular spacecraft idea presents a serious shift away from the old-school manner of doing issues in area, wherein satellites preserve easy orbits and attempt to keep away from each other. Quickly, these easy satellites shall be taken care of\u2014and presumably hunted by\u2014extra agile spacecraft.&#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=\"biotechnology\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/biotechnology\/\">Biotechnology<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/12\/inventwood-is-about-to-mass-produce-wood-thats-stronger-than-steel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>InventWood Is About to Mass-Produce Wood That\u2019s Stronger Than Steel<\/strong><\/a><em>Tim De Chant | TechCrunch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The result&#8217;s a fabric that has 50% extra tensile energy than metal with a strength-to-weight ratio that\u2019s 10 occasions higher, the corporate mentioned. It\u2019s additionally Class A fireplace rated, or extremely proof against flame, and proof against rot and pests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2025\/05\/17\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-may-17\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence Google DeepMind\u2019s New AI Agent Uses Large Language Models to Crack Real-World ProblemsWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Expertise Overview &#8220;Google DeepMind has as soon as once more used giant language fashions to find new options to long-standing issues in math and laptop science. 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