Topic: scientific breakthrough
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Microsoft's AI Discovers New Chemical in Just 200 Hours
Microsoft's AI platform, Microsoft Discovery, identified a novel PFAS-free coolant for data centers in just 200 hours, showcasing AI's potential to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. The platform uses AI-powered "postdoc" agents to streamline research, enabling rapid evaluation of thous...
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The Fate of Robert Goddard's First Liquid-Fuel Rocket
Robert Goddard's 1926 launch pioneered liquid propulsion, a critical technology enabling controlled spaceflight, orbital missions, and deep space exploration. The brief but historic flight, witnessed by only a few, proved liquid fuel's viability and marked a foundational breakthrough for humanity...
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DeepMind’s David Silver raises $1.1B for AI that learns without human data
Ineffable Intelligence, a new British AI lab founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation to build a "superlearner" AI using reinforcement learning. The company aims to replicate the success of DeepMind's AlphaZero,which mastered games th...
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OpenAI's Fake Video App: WIRED's Deep Dive
Tesla's Full Self-Driving system sends alerts that appear to encourage reliance on automation during moments of impaired driver alertness, contradicting safety guidelines requiring constant human supervision. This creates a safety paradox by potentially leading drivers to depend more on the syste...
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OpenAI says it solved an 80-year-old math problem, for real
OpenAI’s latest reasoning model has generated an original mathematical proof disproving a long-standing geometry conjecture first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946, marking the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem in mathematics. Unlike a previous claim by OpenAI in which GPT-...
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