⚙️ Progress & Predictions 2025: Robots, AVs and technical advancements

The past 12 months saw a lot of improvements in autonomous vehicles, robotics and the AI models that make them possible. But it also affirmed certain limitations, which grounds the technology in a rather interesting way. Essentially, my big AGI marker is simple; if someone can develop a — transparent — system, with very little training data, that is able to apply its “knowledge” reliably across novel situations, then I would say we might have a general intelligence on our hands. Because machine...
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⚙️ Microsoft and OpenAI have AGI figured out ... sort of

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning, and happy New Year. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Hope you all had a lovely holiday (and if you had any AI-related arguments with family members, hope we helped prepare you to win ‘em). p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ll be taking a look back at 2024 (and into 2025) next week. In the meantime, things have been a little busy since we last spoke. Let’s get into it. p span[style*="font-siz...
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⚙️ Progress & Predictions 2025: Threats, harms and ethics

Relatedly, check out the latest episode of our podcast, an interview with Pindrop about battling audio deepfakes. Good morning. In this second part of our special edition series, we’re breaking down the dark side of artificial intelligence, the moral and ethical challenges and questions posed by the increasing proliferation of the technology. Relatedly, check out the latest episode of our podcast, an interview with Pindrop about battling audio deepfakes. Good morning. In this second part of ou...
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⚙️ Report: The grid can’t handle AI

AI for Good: Stethoscopes for heart failure p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } One of the ways to tell if a person might soon experience heart failure involves ejection fraction (EF), a percentage measurement of how much blood the left ventricle of the heart pumps out with each contraction. Scores below 49% could indicate cardiac damage, evidence of possible or pending heart failure.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But the methods that exist to test for EF are...
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⚙️ Progress & Predictions 2025: The year of the AI agent

We’re kicking things off today with a look into one aspect of technical progress, crossed with the question of enterprise adoption. The consensus here is that 2025 will become known as the ‘year of the AI agent.’ So, over the next week, we’ll be taking a bit of a departure from the AI news of the day to instead take a deep look, both into 2025 (and back at 2024) in a progress and predictions series that aims to examine how far AI has come, and where it might be headed. Had a lot of fun putting t...
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⚙️ Progress & Predictions 2025: Investing trends

And all the trends are seemingly angled up for 2025.Today, we’re getting into the money behind AI. The numbers for 2024 are astronomical, whether you’re looking at capital expenditures, stock surges or VC investments. Before we get into it, if you’re out in LA right now, I hope you and your families are staying safe. You can find some fire department resources here. Get the Securing AI in the Enterprise guide today to start making real progress toward achieving your AI adoption goals.From AI ske...
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⚙️ Progress & Predictions 2025: Oversight, governance and regulation

Today, to close things out, we’re diving into the question of regulation and oversight, a dynamic that began to evolve in 2024 and promises to remain complex in 2025, particularly with the pending introduction of a new presidential administration in the U.S.Let me know how you liked this week of special editions, if it’s something you want to see more of every now and then, or if you never want to see something like this again! It’s impossible to fit the contents of a year into five brief pieces...
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⚙️ Progress & Predictions 2025: Robots, AVs and technical advancements

The past 12 months saw a lot of improvements in autonomous vehicles, robotics and the AI models that make them possible. But it also affirmed certain limitations, which grounds the technology in a rather interesting way. Essentially, my big AGI marker is simple; if someone can develop a — transparent — system, with very little training data, that is able to apply its “knowledge” reliably across novel situations, then I would say we might have a general intelligence on our hands. Because machine...
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⚙️ 2 years after ChatGPT, how VCs are approaching investing in AI

AI for Good: Sustainable urban development p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Last week, IBM — in collaboration with Sustainable Energy for All — unveiled two publicly available AI-powered solutions intended to aid in the sustainable development of cities and communities around the world.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The solutions, a result of IBM’s pro-bono Sustainability Accelerator, are specifically aimed at providing assistance to developin...
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⚙️ US commission recommends ‘Manhattan Project’ for AI

Microsoft, OpenAI ask NYT for evidence of harm  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } OpenAI and Microsoft earlier this week demanded that the New York Times provide clear documentation regarding any harm that its business has sustained as a result of their generative AI technology. Specifically, they’re after information regarding subscription losses, advertising revenue and web traffic data.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The letters requesting th...
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⚙️ Report: Mass surveillance and human rights violations in Denmark

AI for Good: NASA’s new Earth copilot p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } NASA, through a series of orbiting satellites, keeps a close eye on the Earth. Every day, the space agency adds to its massive repository of geospatial data, data which can then be used by researchers, to, for instance, inform policy decisions and monitor natural habitats, climate change and wildfires.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: But NASA’s geospatial data is both too c...
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⚙️ Interview: Microsoft VP on agentic push and Ignite

AI for Good: Detecting lithium battery firesSource: Jian Chen/Xi'an University of Science and Technology p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Our gadgets today, from phones to laptops and smart bikes, are often powered by lithium-ion batteries. Damage to these batteries can result in an instantaneously ultra-hot, explosive fire; indeed, in 2023, the New York City Fire Department responded to more than 200 deadly residential fires sparked by lithium-ion batteries in e-bikes.  p sp...
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⚙️ Smaller but deeper: Writer’s secret weapon to better AI

Stop losing market share to your competitors. Klue gives you the insights to prioritize competitive threats and win those winnable deals. See why thousands of GTM leaders and compete pros have used Klue to stay ahead of their competition.Good morning. I sat down recently with Waseem Alshikh, the co-founder and CTO of enterprise AI firm Writer. Writer recently made waves with the release of a powerful new generative AI model that’s significantly smaller and cheaper than those coming out of the ma...
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⚙️ Report: The hidden market of body-centric data

AI for Good: Brain mappingSource: Google Research & Lichtman Lab (Harvard University). Renderings by D. Berger (Harvard University) p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ve talked before about just how little researchers know or understand about the human brain, human cognition and human consciousness. Even as some labs are attempting to design artificially intelligent systems that better emulate the many complexities and intricacies of human cognition, other researchers are leve...
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⚙️ Business spending on AI jumps 500% to $13.8 billion ... on $200 billion in capex

AI for Good: Wildfire detection p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Earlier this year, Google.org collaborated with the Environmental Defense Fund, Muon Space and the Moore Foundation to launch the Earth Fire Alliance, a nonprofit organization that will soon oversee a constellation of AI-powered, wildfire-detecting satellites.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The satellites that will make up this constellation have been equipped with custom-built in...
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⚙️ Nvidia releases new generative AI model

AI for Good: Advanced urban tree monitoring  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We are living through a changing climate. And as our efforts turn to climate change adaptation, rather than prevention, trees will play a critical role, not only in providing natural carbon sinks, but also in providing what will soon be much-needed shade and shelter from ever-increasing global temperatures.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But that requires a ton of planning, and pl...
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⚙️ Zoom is becoming an ‘AI-first’ company

AI for Good: Plant-based meats p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Moving away from meat-based diets could have a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions, reducing carbon and helping spare some of the resources that are currently expended on maintaining flocks of animals.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But the plant-based alternatives tend to not taste great.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: So, some researchers at Stan...
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⚙️ Cybersecurity expert: The ‘zero-trust’ world of AI

Learn Million Dollar AI Strategies & Tools in this 3 hour AI Training for Free. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } If you are not an AI-powered professional today, you will either:Get replaced by a person who uses AIFace a slow career growth & lower salary Keep spending 10s of hours on tasks that can be done in 10 minutes. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But don’t fret– there is one resource that can CHANGE your life, but only if you’re ready to take action NO...
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⚙️ Canadian media companies sue OpenAI

AI for Good: Cancer gene tracking  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Increasingly, doctors have been conducting genetic profile tests on cancer tumors; this offers a more precise diagnosis which can then be used to guide more specific treatment options — certain drugs and therapies will work (or won’t work) better based upon the genetic profile of each individual cancerous tumor.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But the process at hand here involves genomic se...
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⚙️ Report: The mirage of ‘open’ AI

AI for Good: Flood prediction  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Researchers at MIT have developed a tool that combines generative AI with older forecasting approaches to generate predictions of satellite imagery following potential flooding events.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The system combines a physics-based flood model, which provides real-world parameters, and a generative AI model, to create realistic images of a given region after a s...
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⚙️ Report: AI and cybersecurity in the enterprise

AI for Good: Brain mapping p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ve talked often about how much we don’t understand the human brain. It has been described by some neuroscientists as the most complex object in the known universe, due mainly to the sheer quantity of things going on within it; the human brain is estimated to have some 86 billion neurons, 85 billion other cells and 100 trillion synapses, or connections, tying it all together.   p span[style*="font-size"] { line-hei...
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