Scientific American magazine

Solid-state batteries have reached a make-or-break moment

For years now Tim Holme has watched the same drama repeat itself roughly once a week. A headline arrives: some laboratory somewhere has cracked the problem, invented the battery of the future, solved ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
Time

Inside the Race to Make AI Build Itself

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GEN

Recursion Partners with Genentech to Advance First Validated Neuro Target Discovered Through AI Map

Christopher Winrow, PhD, Recursion’s vice president of neuroscience, inside the company’s lab. Recursion marked a milestone in its up to $12 billion artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration with ...
TechCrunch

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...
The Conversation

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Time

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

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Snopes.com

Idaho will use firing squad as main execution method beginning July 2026

A claim (archived) circulated online in June 2026 that, starting July 1, Idaho would use the firing squad as its primary method of execution for death-row prisoners. One Facebook user wrote, "Idaho is ...
Just Auto

Factorial Energy goes public at $1.3bn valuation after SPAC merger

Founded in the greater Boston area, Factorial develops solid-state batteries. Credit: Noah Emad / Shutterstock.com US solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy has begun trading on the Nasdaq ...
The Business Journals

Solid-state battery maker Factorial starts trading after SPAC process

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Scientific American magazine

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...