Twelve years ago, a baby was born after someone used bitcoin to pay for a frozen egg IVF. In February 2012 — almost two years after Laszlo’s pizzas — a fertility doctor named C. Terence Lee set about a personal and professional quest to onboard his patients to Bitcoin by Read more…
A mathematician on Reddit calculated that if all 8.2 billion humans were blended into a uniform goo, the resulting meatball would form a sphere just under 1 kilometer wide — small enough to fit inside Central Park. “If you blended all 7.88 billion people on Earth into a fine goo Read more…
The FDA plans to use AI to “radically increase efficiency” in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, drawing on lessons from Operation Warp Speed to reduce review times to weeks. The plan was laid out in an article published Tuesday in JAMA. Another initiative involves a review of Read more…
Meta is preparing to unveil a new AI research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,” a hypothetical A.I. system that exceeds the powers of the human brain, as the tech giant jockeys to stay competitive in the technology race. Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28, the founder and chief executive of Read more…
Robert F. Smith, CEO of Vista Equity Partners, told attendees at the SuperReturn International 2025 conference in Berlin last week that 60% of the 5,500 finance professionals present will be “looking for work” next year due to AI disruption. Smith predicted that while 40% of attendees will adopt AI agents Read more…
The world’s oceans are in worse health than realised, scientists have said today, as they warn that a key measurement shows we are “running out of time” to protect marine ecosystems. From a report: Ocean acidification, often called the “evil twin” of the climate crisis, is caused when carbon dioxide Read more…
Meta is in talks to make a multibillion-dollar investment into AI startup Scale AI, according to people familiar with the matter. The financing could exceed $10 billion in value, some of the people said, making it one of the largest private company funding events of all time. […] Scale AI, Read more…