Grok cleared for use across US Government Agencies.

➤ xAI has struck an agreement to make Grok available to U.S. federal agencies via procurement through the General Services Administration (GSA).

➤ Federal agencies will be able to purchase access to Grok for $0.42 per organization.

➤ This price is lower than what some competitors charge: for instance, OpenAI charges about $1 per year for federal access to ChatGPT.

➤ The move is part of a broader push to embed advanced AI tools deeper into U.S. government operations, especially in defense and national security roles via programs like “Grok for Government.”

➤ Already, the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts (up to $200 million ceilings) to xAI.

Eric Schmidt on America, AI, and the Race for the Future.

Says China has effectively solved power supply and is ahead in electricity production. In the US, data centers need about 92 gigawatt more capacity, with almost no new nuclear projects. If power stays short, frontier AI training may shift to energy-rich foreign partners.

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🗣 Ilya Sutskever on Comparing AI Systems to Biological & Human Intelligence.

He explains the brain’s adaptability, where children with half their brain removed still function well. And another experiment shows sensory inputs can remap to different brain regions.

i.e. that cortical structures are highly uniform, reused across functions, similar to DNA and protein encoding.

This suggests that intelligence relies on a general, repeatable architecture, and the idea that AI can mirror biological systems.

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🔔 Accenture cuts 11,000 jobs as AI takes over consulting

Accenture says it can’t retrain everyone fast enough for the new AI-driven skills consulting now demands.

CEO Julie Sweet said employees whose jobs can’t be matched with new AI skills will be let go quickly.

"This change is so big, this is reversing five decades of how we're working."

The cuts are part of an $865 million restructuring program, expected to generate $1 billion in savings—money that will be reinvested in AI and workforce development.

Accenture’s stock fell 2.7% on the layoff news, then rebounded 2.8% the next day—now nearly back to pre-announcement.

The biggest private company valuations of the world are now ruled by AI and tech.

OpenAI is first at $500B, SpaceX second at $400B, and ByteDance third at $300B.

Sam Altman says technology is outpacing our wisdom, which leaves society unbalanced

"This was the year AI got smarter than us". Life goes on, but something fundamental has changed

The future is wide open: digital immortality, disease cures, no one knows how far it goes

Jeff Bezos plans to build a data center in space within the next 10+ years.

Unlimited solar energy available 24/7, space is an ideal location for data centers.

You can now chat with apps in ChatGPT.

Neuralink participant controlling robotic arm using only his thoughts.

This robot can do real work.

Imagine this in a commercial laundry (hotel, hospital, or retirement home) or retail laundromat folding clothes for customers.

It could replace lots of jobs soon.

Boston Dynamics wearable robot features arms with 24 degrees of freedom. These robotic arms can effortlessly lift up to 200 pounds. With their assistance, a single person is capable of transporting a missile!

Altman: movies are going to become much more like video games as AI video matures.

Googles new 27B-model predicted a new potential cancer therapy for the first time: it discovered that the drug silmitasertib (CX-4945) only enhances antigen presentation under certain immune conditions, in other words, it can make tumors more “visible” to the immune system. This hypothesis was confirmed experimentally.

"C2S-Scale generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior and we have since confirmed its prediction with experimental validation in living cells. This result provides a blueprint for a new kind of biological discovery — predictive models of cellular behavior powerful enough to discover context-conditioned biology and generate biologically-grounded hypotheses."

It can't be much longer until every cancer will be fully treatable.

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Is AI replacing US jobs?

Since June 2023, the largest increase in unemployment has occurred in occupations with the lowest exposure to AI, rising by +0.8 percentage points.

At the same time, professions with the highest exposure to automation from AI have seen an increase of +0.7 percentage points. This is followed by a +0.4 percentage point rise in fields with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lowest exposure to AI.

This indicates that while AI may be contributing to the labor market slowdown, it is not the main driver. When cracks appear in the job market, new hires are often the first to feel the pain, which is the case this time.

Labor market weakness is only partially due to AI.

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🇺🇸 Amazon has more than 750,000 robots working in all their warehouses.

Each picking robot in the warehouse can replace 24 workers

Albania's Prime Minister announces his AI minister Diella is "pregnant" with 83 babies - each will be an assistant to an MP.

I have only 1 question — who’s the father? 🤔