Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where The Bottlenecks in AI Are

Regulating the Sex Robot Revolution

The New York City Council Counters Mamdani’s Tax-the-Rich Plan

Pesticides may wreak havoc on the gut microbiome

Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel

Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle

Open Thread

This Record-Breaking Octopus Fossil Isn’t an Octopus After All

AI’s grandiose paradoxes. It will bring us heaven on earth or kill us all, we’re told; it is the most important invention in history or a scam

“People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”

Ghost Urbanism: Haunted Concrete and Its Cultural Forms

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Google CEO Sundar Pichai & DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Discuss Future Tech in New Delhi

Why China Can’t Win the AI-Led Industrial Revolution

AI to help researchers see the bigger picture in cell biology

Ken Burns: The Art of the American Revolution

A History of Revolution from Thucydides to Lenin

Iranians Don’t Need to Prove Their Revolution to You

“Revolution” initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution, talks to Lex Fridman

After The AI Revolution

Inside the ‘self-driving’ lab revolution