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Scott Amyx is the Managing Partner at Astor Perkins, Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member, Forbes New York Business Council Member, Singularity University, SXSW Pitch, global thought leader, voted top 10 international innovation keynote speaker.
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Companies like OpenAI are sucking up power at a historic rate. One startup thinks it has found a way to take pressure off the grid

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Companies like OpenAI are sucking up power at a historic rate. One startup thinks it has found a way to take pressure off the grid | Fortune
Emerald AI, which launched in July, is trying to solve the problem of powering the data centers that all AI companies need.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?
The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans
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October 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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AI enabled Klarna to halve its workforce—now, the CEO is warning workers that other ‘tech bros’ are sugarcoating just how badly it’s about to impact jobs

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AI enabled Klarna to halve its workforce—now, the CEO is warning workers that other ‘tech bros’ are sugarcoating just how badly it’s about to impact jobs | Fortune
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who told Sam Altman he wanted Klarna to be ChatGPT’s “favorite guinea pig,” says too many CEOs are downplaying how disruptive AI will really be.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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New York City Sues Social Media Companies Over 'Youth Mental Health Crisis'

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New York City Sues Social Media Companies Over 'Youth Mental Health Crisis'
The Big Apple bites back.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built

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Exclusive: One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built | TechCrunch
By coating regular rebar with a thin layer of stainless steel, Allium Engineering could reduce the amount of concrete needed to build a bridge while also prolonging its life.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Vertex’s quest for a breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes

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Vertex’s quest for a breakthrough in Type 1 diabetes
The race is on for an insulin-producing treatment that doesn’t require immune suppressing drugs.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Base Power, a Battery-Focused Power Company, Raises $1 Billion

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Base Power, a Battery-Focused Power Company, Raises $1 Billion
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October 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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APT Hackers Exploit ChatGPT to Create Sophisticated Malware and Phishing Emails

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APT Hackers Exploit ChatGPT to Create Sophisticated Malware and Phishing Emails
A China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group is actively leveraging OpenAI's ChatGPT platform to develop malware and craft sophisticated spear-phishing emails for its global campaigns.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Space Force sets up ‘working capital fund’ for commercial space services

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Space Force sets up ‘working capital fund’ for commercial space services
Space Force sets up ‘working capital fund’ for commercial space services Space Force sets up ‘working capital fund’ for commercial space services
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October 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore

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A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore
Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B

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Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B | TechCrunch
It's been a wild year of growth and fundraising for vibe-coding database of choice, Supabase.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination

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OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination
The age of AI slop is upon us.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array

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Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array - Nature Physics
Most atom-based quantum networks emit photons at non-telecom wavelengths, requiring lossy conversion for long-distance links. A scalable approach for generating direct entanglement between atoms and telecom-band photons has now been demonstrated.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Delocalized Excitation Transfer in Open Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions

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Delocalized Excitation Transfer in Open Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions
Entangled quantum states enhance and preserve energy transfer in light-harvesting--like systems with long-range interactions, and trapped-ion experiments can simulate these processes to thereby guide ...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas

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Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas - Nature Communications
Sensor failures and limited resolution challenge many complex systems. Here, authors develop a multimodal AI method to generate super-resolution of a sensor using other available sensors in the system, revealing hidden dynamics in fusion plasmas and enabling cost-effective, high-resolution diagnostics.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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OpenAI's SaaS attack has begun. Here are the companies in the firing line.

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OpenAI's SaaS era has begun. Here are the companies in the firing line.
OpenAI showed off new AI tools for sales, support, and contracts, posing a direct threat to software-as-a-service leaders like Salesforce and HubSpot.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M

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Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M | TechCrunch
Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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This Young ‘Actress’ Has All Of Hollywood Fuming

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This Young ‘Actress’ Has All Of Hollywood Fuming
The Screen Actors Guild seethed about the digital avatar in a statement where it declared why "creativity is, and should remain, human-centered."
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October 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product

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Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product
Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine-tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats

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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats | TechCrunch
Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science  | TechCrunch
Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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The sludgy rise of workslop

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Workslop is oozing into every corner of America's white-collar offices
Are those weekly work memos getting longer and more annoying? Here's why.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device

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Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device - Nature
An electrically driven perovskite laser is constructed by vertically integrating a low-threshold single-crystal perovskite microcavity sub-unit with a high-power microcavity perovskite LED sub-unit.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation

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Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation
One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'

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Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid said the advice he gives students is different in the AI world.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM