{"id":20520,"date":"2025-07-21T07:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=20520"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:01:42","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-july-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=20520","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 19)"},"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.wired.com\/story\/openai-chatgpt-agent-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>OpenAI\u2019s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All<\/strong><\/a><em>Reece Rogers | Wired<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An agent, on this context, refers to an AI software that is ready to\u2014or a minimum of makes an attempt to\u2014navigate third-party software program and web sites and make selections on its journey to finish digital duties, following an preliminary set of directions from the person. &#8216;Agent&#8217; is the buzziest of buzzwords proper now for corporations seeking to promote generative AI instruments, particularly these with an eye fixed on enterprise clients.&#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:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tesla-robotaxi-chinese-competitors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chinese Robotaxis Are Gunning for Global Domination<\/strong><\/a><em>Tony Peng | IEEE Spectrum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The measure of robotaxi success isn\u2019t flashy demos or tech-day reveals\u2014it\u2019s large-scale, industrial, totally autonomous public service. By that normal, Tesla stays far behind. Globally, solely Alphabet\u2019s Waymo and a handful of Chinese language corporations have overcome this barrier.&#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.wired.com\/story\/artificial-intelligence-drug-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Where Are All the AI Drugs?<\/strong><\/a><em>Veronique Greenwood | Wired<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What\u2019s particular about this molecule, Ray says, isn\u2019t simply that it has survived the gauntlet to date. It\u2019s that REC-3565 &#8216;wouldn\u2019t have come by human design.&#8217; Ray\u2019s workforce, he believes, wouldn&#8217;t have made the logical leaps required to achieve this level with out utilizing synthetic intelligence. Because the world\u2019s pharma giants get caught up on AI, Recursion is amongst a bunch of startups betting the whole lot on the know-how.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-solar-system-internet-space-laser-test-moves-us-closer-2000629286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A Solar System Internet? Space Laser Test Moves Us Closer<\/strong><\/a><em>Passant Rabie | Gizmodo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scientists on the European House Company used a laser to speak with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep area for the primary time, marking a significant step ahead of their efforts to construct optical communication techniques for future missions to the moon and past.&#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.theinformation.com\/articles\/flying-taxi-finally-nears-takeoff-unlikely-boost-toyota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A Flying Taxi Finally Nears Takeoff With an Unlikely Boost From Toyota<\/strong><\/a><em>Steve LeVine | The Info<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us grew\u00a0up with wide-eyed concepts of flying vehicles\u2014you realize, sooner or later zipping round city just like the Jetsons. Their failure to materialize so disillusioned investor Peter Thiel that he quipped: &#8216;We wished flying vehicles; as an alternative we bought 140 characters.&#8217; You\u2019re free to not imagine him, however JoeBen Bevirt is right here to inform you we are actually shut\u2014very shut\u2014to having flying vehicles.&#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.theverge.com\/news\/708479\/uber-lucid-nuro-robotaxi-deal-investment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Uber to Invest Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Lucid and Nuro in Massive Robotaxi Deal<\/strong><\/a><em>Andrew J. Hawkins | The Verge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uber\u2019s determination to pour tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in each corporations underscores\u00a0its need to turn out to be a clearinghouse\u00a0for each electrical and autonomous automobiles of all stripes. The ridehail firm has stated it desires to make use of its measurement and scale to assist within the proliferation of autonomous automobiles internationally.&#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=\"energy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/energy\/\">Energy<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/these-mini-nuclear-plants-fit-on-a-flatbed-and-thats-exactly-the-point-2000627089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The US Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere<\/strong><\/a><em>Gayoung Lee | Gizmodo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Upcoming] experiments, that includes two trailer-sized microreactors, shall be &#8216;the primary of their form on this planet&#8217; and can help in assembly &#8216;the nation\u2019s demand for extra ample, inexpensive, and dependable energy,&#8217; the DOE acknowledged in a\u00a0press launch.&#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.wired.com\/story\/former-top-google-researchers-have-made-a-new-kind-of-ai-agent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent<\/strong><\/a><em>Will Knight | Wired<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The corporate\u2019s CEO, Misha Laskin, says the best method to construct supersmart AI brokers is to have them really grasp coding, since that is the best, most pure means for them to work together with the world. Whereas different corporations are constructing brokers that use human person interfaces and browse the online, Laskin, who beforehand labored on Gemini and brokers at Google DeepMind, says this hardly comes naturally to a big language mannequin.&#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.technologyreview.com\/2025\/07\/18\/1120466\/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A Major AI Training Data Set Contains Millions of Examples of Personal Data<\/strong><\/a><em>Eileen Guo | MIT Expertise Overview<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1000&#8217;s of photographs\u2014together with identifiable faces\u2014had been present in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a significant AI coaching set for picture technology scraped from the online. As a result of the researchers audited simply 0.1% of CommonPool\u2019s information, they estimate that the true variety of photographs containing personally identifiable data, together with faces and identification paperwork, is within the tons of of hundreds of thousands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2025\/07\/19\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-july-19\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence OpenAI\u2019s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It AllReece Rogers | Wired &#8220;An agent, on this context, refers to an AI software that is ready to\u2014or a minimum of makes an attempt to\u2014navigate third-party software program and web sites and make selections on its journey to finish digital duties, following an preliminary set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,2837,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-20520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-july","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520","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=20520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20521,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions\/20521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}