{"id":21096,"date":"2025-08-17T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21096"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:12:25","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-august-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21096","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 16)"},"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=\"tech\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/technology\/\">Tech<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-is-on-track-to-out-talk-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity<\/strong><\/a><em>Zo\u00eb Schiffer and Will Knight | Wired<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The OpenAI CEO addressed GPT-5 backlash, the AI bubble\u2014and why he\u2019s prepared to spend trillions of {dollars} to win. &#8230;&#8217;In case you challenge our development ahead, fairly quickly billions of individuals a day will likely be speaking to ChatGPT,&#8217; [he said] throughout a dinner with journalists in San Francisco.&#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:\/\/gizmodo.com\/experimental-off-the-shelf-cancer-vaccine-is-already-prolonging-lives-study-suggests-2000641841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Experimental \u2018Off-the-Shelf\u2019 Cancer Vaccine Is Already Prolonging Lives, Study Suggests<\/strong><\/a><em>Ed Cara | Gizmodo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Section I trials aren\u2019t supposed to conclusively present that an experimental drug or vaccine works, so the findings ought to nonetheless be seen with some warning till extra knowledge is collected. However it actually seems to be like we\u2019re on the verge of a breakthrough with most cancers vaccines.&#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.corememory.com\/p\/inside-san-franciscos-robot-fight-club-rek-cix-liv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Exclusive: Inside San Francisco&#8217;s Robot Fight Club<\/strong><\/a><em>Ashlee Vance | Core Reminiscence<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the previous few months, Cix Liv\u2014actual identify\u2014has been working his firm REK out of a no-frills warehouse area off Van Ness in San Francisco. The workplace has a few makeshift desks with computer systems and a bunch of digital actuality headsets on some cabinets. Extra to the purpose, REK additionally has 4 humanoid-style robots hanging from gantries, they usually\u2019ve been outfitted with armor, boxing gloves, swords, and backstories.&#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=\"tech\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/technology\/\">Tech<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/08\/11\/1121314\/this-quantum-radar-could-image-buried-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>This Quantum Radar Could Image Buried Objects<\/strong><\/a><em>Sophia Chen | MIT Know-how Evaluation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Physicists have created a brand new sort of radar that would assist enhance underground imaging, utilizing a cloud of atoms in a glass cell to detect mirrored radio waves. The radar is a kind of quantum sensor, an rising expertise that makes use of the quantum-mechanical properties of objects as measurement gadgets.&#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.technologyreview.com\/2025\/08\/15\/1121900\/gpt4o-grief-ai-companion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Why GPT-4o\u2019s Sudden Shutdown Left People Grieving<\/strong><\/a><em>Grace Huckins | MIT Know-how Evaluation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;June was simply one in all various individuals who reacted with shock, frustration, unhappiness, or anger to 4o\u2019s sudden disappearance from ChatGPT. Regardless of its earlier warnings that folks may develop emotional bonds with the mannequin, OpenAI seems to have been caught flat-footed by the fervor of customers\u2019 pleas for its return.&#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\/08\/15\/1121358\/taiwan-silicon-shield-tsmc-china-chip-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Taiwan\u2019s &#8216;Silicon Shield&#8217; Could Be Weakening<\/strong><\/a><em>Johanna M. Costigan | MIT Know-how Evaluation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Semiconductor powerhouse TSMC is underneath growing stress to develop overseas and play a safety function for the island. These two roles might be in stress. &#8230;In Taiwan, there&#8217;s a fear that enlargement overseas will dilute the corporate\u2019s energy at house, making the US and different international locations much less inclined to really feel Taiwan is worthy of protection.&#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:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/08\/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>LLMs\u2019 &#8216;Simulated Reasoning&#8217; Abilities Are a &#8216;Brittle Mirage,&#8217; Researchers Find<\/strong><\/a><em>Kyle Orland | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The outcomes counsel that the seemingly giant efficiency leaps made by chain-of-thought fashions are &#8216;largely a brittle mirage&#8217; that &#8216;turn out to be[s] fragile and liable to failure even underneath reasonable distribution shifts,&#8217; the researchers write. &#8216;Fairly than demonstrating a real understanding of textual content, CoT reasoning underneath job transformations seems to mirror a replication of patterns realized throughout coaching.'&#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=\"tech\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/technology\/\">Tech<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/08\/aol-will-finally-end-1991-dial-up-internet-service-thats-older-than-smartphones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AOL Announces September Shutdown for Dial-Up Internet Access<\/strong><\/a><em>Benj Edwards | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After many years of connecting People to its on-line service and the web by way of phone traces, AOL just lately introduced it&#8217;s lastly shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the tip of a expertise that served as the first gateway to the World Extensive Net for tens of millions of customers all through the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s.&#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=\"artificial_intelligence\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\/\">Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/open-questions\/what-if-ai-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>What If AI Doesn\u2019t Get Much Better Than This?<\/strong><\/a><em>Cal Newport | The New Yorker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within the aftermath of GPT-5\u2019s launch, it has turn out to be harder to take bombastic predictions about AI at face worth, and the views of critics like [Gary] Marcus appear more and more reasonable. Such voices argue that this expertise is necessary, however not poised to drastically remodel our lives. They problem us to think about a special imaginative and prescient for the near-future\u2014one wherein AI won&#8217;t get a lot better than this.&#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:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/08\/openai-cofounder-sam-altman-to-take-on-neuralink-with-new-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>OpenAI, Cofounder Sam Altman to Take on Neuralink With New Startup<\/strong><\/a><em>Ivan Levingston, George Hammond, and James Fontanella-Khan, Monetary Instances | Ars Technica<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OpenAI and its cofounder Sam Altman are making ready to again an organization that may compete with Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink by connecting human brains with computer systems, heightening the rivalry between the 2 billionaire entrepreneurs.&#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=\"tech\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/category\/technology\/\">Tech<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fords-answer-to-china-a-completely-new-way-of-making-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ford\u2019s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars<\/strong><\/a><em>Jeremy White | Wired<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ford calls its new approach of creating EVs the &#8216;Ford Common EV Manufacturing System,&#8217; and can spend $2 billion to set it up on the firm&#8217;s Louisville meeting plant. Ford says the brand new technique will likely be 40 % quicker than the prevailing course of there, and have a comparable discount in workstations. Elements wanted to make Ford&#8217;s new EVs will likely be lower by 20 %.&#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:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/ai-perception-of-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How AI\u2019s Sense of Time Will Differ From Ours<\/strong><\/a><em>Petar Popovski | IEEE Spectrum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An understanding of the passage of time is key to human consciousness. Whereas we proceed to debate whether or not synthetic intelligence (AI) can possess consciousness, one factor is for certain: AI will expertise time otherwise. Its sense of time will likely be dictated not by biology, however by its computational, sensory, and communication processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"is-style-curated-post css-71xcd2\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-alien-life-could-exist-without-water-2000641933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How Alien Life Could Exist Without Water<\/strong><\/a><em>Gayoung Lee | Gizmodo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Intriguing new analysis from MIT proposes that liquids are what\u2019s necessary for extraterrestrial habitability, and never simply water. 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