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Dr. James Canton retweeted
I feel incredibly privileged to be alive at the most extraordinary moment in human history, and even more honored and humbled to contribute, however modestly, in the age of AI and at the dawn of the superintelligence era!
My deepest gratitude to @OpenAI for this opportunity to share my excitement for an incredible future! 🚀
After a lifetime devoted to science, I can think of no greater purpose than helping harness this extraordinary new intelligence to accelerate discoveries, conquer diseases, and build a better future for humanity! 🙏
Live long and prosper! 🖖
How might a single cell respond to a drug?
Immunologist @DeryaTR_ uses Codex to simulate that experiment.
🧵 He’s one of nine builders in our community sharing what they’re working on with Codex
openai.com/codex-originals/
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A US SPY AGENCY IS QUIETLY BUILDING A MAP IN ORBIT FOR WHEN GPS GOES DARK
QUANTUM IS HOW.
In March, a SpaceX rocket carried a small satellite for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the US intelligence agency that maps the planet for the military. On board was a diamond quantum magnetometer, built by SBQuantum and Spire.
Its job is to measure Earth’s magnetic field from space.
That sounds boring until you know what depends on it. NGA maintains the World Magnetic Model, which militaries, aircraft, and the compass in your phone use to work out which way is north.
Today that model leans on a European satellite mission that gives periodic snapshots. NGA called this “the first-ever effort to collect reliable geomagnetic data using CubeSat technology,” and the quantum sensor measures continuously.
The Pentagon is building navigation that works without GPS by reading Earth’s magnetic field, and it has already flown planes that way. That only works if the magnetic map is accurate.
So a spy agency is using quantum sensors to build the map the military will navigate by when GPS goes dark.
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THE PENTAGON’S SECRET SPACEPLANE HAS BEEN TESTING A QUANTUM COMPASS FOR 14 MONTHS
The X-37B, the Space Force’s robotic mini space shuttle, launched in August 2025. It’s still up there, with no landing date announced. Most of what it carries is classified.
One payload isn’t, it’s carrying what has been described as the highest-performing quantum inertial sensor ever flown.
Most spacecraft rely on GPS signals or tracking from the ground to know where they are. A quantum inertial sensor needs neither, it measures motion at the level of individual atoms, so a spacecraft can keep track of where it is with no outside signal at all.
Space Force put it plainly, “quantum inertial sensing allows for robust navigation capabilities when GPS navigation is not possible.”
Russia has its own theory, the head of Almaz-Antey, the company behind Russia’s air defense systems, has claimed the X-37B could carry nuclear warheads. Analysts say the cargo bay is too small, and there’s no evidence it has ever carried a weapon.
This mission has now been in orbit for more than 430 days, the record is 908.
Whatever is on board, the military is clearly getting ready for a fight where GPS doesn’t survive, Quantum is the future of space navigation and timing, NASA knows it that's why they love $INFQ as well.
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Dr. James Canton retweeted
Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy.
It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.
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We’ve expanded our AI for Science program beyond individual teams to support some of the world’s leading scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups. anthropic.com/news/ai-for-sc…
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SpaceX's supercomputing facilities in the Mid-South rank among the world’s most advanced AI training clusters, spanning over 2.5 million feet, millions of GPUs, and over two gigawatts of compute → spacex.com/Mid-South
Dr. James Canton retweeted
AI is accelerating science at breakneck speed. We are living through Science 3.0. In the next decade, there will be more scientific advances than in the entire past century!
“Researchers released 36 preprints produced with a single suite of AI tools called BootLoops, a harness usable with any frontier AI model.
In just 3 months, researchers used Claude with BootLoops to cross-pollinate at massive scale, spotting and solving problems in unrelated fields that share the same mathematical structures.
The papers range widely, from figuring out the age of sunspots to analyzing government health policies to deciphering a mysterious medieval manuscript.”
Borrowing an idea from one research discipline to solve a thorny problem in another is an age-old scientific trick. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, for example, famously inspired algorithms in computer science that “evolve” solutions to complex problems.
But such clever leaps are fleetingly rare. For #AI, however, hopping between fields can be a breeze.
Researchers highlighted that ability with the release of 36 preprints produced with a single suite of AI tools called BootLoops. The so-called harness can be used with any large language model, such as Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
And in just 3 months, researchers used Claude outfitted with BootLoops to cross-pollinate at a massive scale, spotting—and precisely solving—problems in seemingly unrelated fields that share the same mathematical structures.
The resulting papers range widely, from figuring out the age of sunspots, to analyzing government health policies, to attempting to decipher a mysterious medieval manuscript.
Learn more: scim.ag/3TUUyDJ
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IBM JUST TOLD WALL STREET IT’S READY TO SCALE QUANTUM.
HERE’S EVERYTHING THEY SAID
$IBM reported earnings today, and Arvind Krishna spent part of the call on quantum. The biggest line was workloads that cost about $100 to run on IBM “could cost up to $10 million on slower competitive modalities.”
IBM signed 16 enterprise quantum engagements this year, including AT&T and General Motors, across automotive, aerospace, telecom, finance and manufacturing.
Its newest processor, Nighthawk R2, runs 7,500 gates, executes 100,000 circuits per second, and is up to 19x faster than the last generation.
IBM connected its first modular cryogenic systems, the step toward linking machines into one big computer, and is building a 300,000-square-foot quantum manufacturing facility in Poughkeepsie.
It’s in the final stage of DARPA’s quantum benchmarking program, and it closed a $1 billion Commerce Department award to manufacture quantum chips.
The full update comes at IBM’s Quantum Day on December 10.
Three months ago Krishna said quantum would hit IBM’s income statement by 2028. Tonight he named customers.
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IBM’S CEO SAYS QUANTUM WILL BE WORTH A TRILLION DOLLARS BY THE END OF THE 2030S
Arvind Krishna isn’t hedging anymore.
On CNBC this summer he said quantum will have “a measurable impact on our top line and bottom line” by 2028 or 2029. Then he went further, “By the end of the 2030s, we are now pretty convinced this is a trillion dollars of value.”
This isn't some startup CEO pitching investors. That’s a 115 year old company that sells to banks and governments.
And IBM is spending like it means it, more than $10 billion on quantum over five years. A target of a large scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2029. A new quantum chip foundry called Anderon, backed by $1 billion from the Commerce Department and $1 billion from IBM. Meanwhile it just bought HRL Laboratories from Boeing and GM, the lab that put a quantum computer’s control electronics inside the freezer.
The trillion dollar figure is value across the whole industry, not IBM’s revenue. But the date is what matters. Two years ago, “commercial quantum” was always 10 years away. Now the CEO of IBM is putting it on his own income statement within three years.
IBM reports earnings tonight. Watch what he says about quantum.
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Dr. James Canton retweeted
This is a super cool capability of Gemini 4 Argon! Medical education will never be the same. In fact, anyone will be able to learn virtually any medical subject without having to attend medical school. And this extends far beyond medicine to virtually every field of knowledge!
These 3D simulations by AI models will only get better, making learning more immersive, intuitive, and accessible to everyone!
Dr. James Canton retweeted
In Science, researchers present RFdiffusion3, a new generative AI system that designs proteins and nucleic acids atom by atom, which could enable the ability to engineer novel biomolecules with precise, complex functions.
Learn more: scim.ag/4hOQVIF
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The Future Takes Flight: China Unveils Operational Flying Taxis
by @XueJia24682
#Drone #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation
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GPU World: A story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me.
The AI future is unevenly distributed. What would the world look like with AI broadly diffused, such as if we had one GPU per person?
1000-5000 words, fiction or non-fiction.
$100K in total prizes.
gpuworld.org
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4 weeks to go for GPU World, the story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me.
$100K in prizes.
Submit your story!
GPU World: A story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me.
The AI future is unevenly distributed. What would the world look like with AI broadly diffused, such as if we had one GPU per person?
1000-5000 words, fiction or non-fiction.
$100K in total prizes.
gpuworld.org
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Strangely twisted shapes exist in dimension 126. quantamagazine.org/dimension…
Dr. James Canton retweeted
This is the moment I’ve waited decades for, since I dreamed of a time when we could create virtual cells & fully simulate biology in silico with AI.
As I’ve repeatedly said, virtual biology & eventually digital twins are key to curing all diseases & aging. Time to accelerate!🚀
A universal predictive model of the cell would dramatically accelerate science, allowing biologists to perform experiments digitally. Today we’re announcing a major partnership with the DOE and NIH. The goal of this partnership is to generate the data that will be needed to build an accurate model of the cell with artificial intelligence.
Isomorphic, Google DeepMind, and Meta are joining us as founding partners in the Virtual Biology Initiative. This is the beginning of a large scale coordinated effort to map cellular biology to power the development of digital models of life. Other leading scientific institutions and consortia including the Allen Institute, Broad Institute, Gladstone Institutes, the Human Cell Atlas, the Human Protein Atlas, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, as well as NVIDIA, are working together as part of this international scientific project.
Creating a predictive model of the cell is one of the most important challenges for the next decade of science. The insights that come from this could unlock a far greater understanding of disease, and open new paths for cures.
We invite the worldwide scientific community and other funders to join us in this effort.
Dr. James Canton retweeted
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🤖 Made with AI
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In addition @GoogleDeepmind, @IsomorphicLabs and @meta are collectively investing $300 million in the Virtual Biology Initiative to create the technologies and multi-modal datasets needed to build predictive models of life.
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🧵 Biohub, @ENERGY, @NIH, and new funding partners today announced a major expansion of an international effort to generate and make accessible the data enabling predictive AI models of biology. Together, the organizations are investing $1.8 billion in funding, data, computation and new measurement technology - largest coordinated commitment to map the biology of the cell to power development of digital models of biology. bit.ly/3UhjoxD
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🧬 A 3D-printed retina is bringing sight restoration one step closer
Imagine a tiny artificial retina that can actually mimic the complex layers of the human eye. That is exactly what researchers in South Korea are working toward.
Scientists at POSTECH and partner institutions have created a 3D-bioprinted retina-on-a-chip using specialized retinal bioink. The model contains both blood-vessel and nerve-like layers, allowing researchers to recreate retinal vein occlusion — a condition that can lead to severe and irreversible vision loss.
But there’s an important detail hidden behind the viral headlines…
🚫 They have not printed an entire human eye or restored sight in a blind patient.
Instead, they have created a sophisticated laboratory model that behaves more like real retinal tissue. This could give scientists a powerful new way to study eye diseases and test potential treatments before moving to human trials.
And that may be the most exciting part.
Today, damaged retinal tissue is extremely difficult to repair. Tomorrow, technologies like this could help scientists understand how to replace, repair, or regenerate the cells responsible for vision.
We’re not at artificial sight yet — but the road toward regenerative eye medicine is becoming much more real.
Source: Postech, & partner institutions. Research on 3D bioprinted retina-on-a-chip for modeling retinal vein occlusion.
ALT 🧬 A 3D-printed retina is bringing sight restoration one step closer** Imagine a tiny artificial retina that can actually mimic the complex layers of the human eye. That is exactly what researchers in South Korea are working toward. Scientists at POSTECH and partner institutions have created a **3D-bioprinted retina-on-a-chip** using specialized retinal bioink. The model contains both blood-vessel and nerve-like layers, allowing researchers to recreate **retinal vein occlusion** — a condition that can lead to severe and irreversible vision loss. But there’s an important detail hidden behind the viral headlines… 🚫 They have **not** printed an entire human eye or restored sight in a blind patient. Instead, they have created a sophisticated laboratory model that behaves more like real retinal tissue. This could give scientists a powerful new way to study eye diseases and test potential treatments before moving to human trials.