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Experts signed a brief but serious warning about the possible dangers of AI. What are the concerns and what can be done about them?

Part 2 of a look into deep sea mining. The concerns, regulation attempts, and counter-arguments of the practice.

More market movement on the back of AI. Nvidia had a record day after a strong earnings report.

The history of polymetallic nodules. How they were discovered, how they are formed, and our recent attempts to mine them.

Nvidia is having a record day following a huge earnings report. AI demand looks to power their future revenues.

The system of buying and selling carbon offset credits has had the opposite effect of its goal of reducing automakers from reducing their emissions. Tesla has made billions while doing nothing to meaningfully reduce their footprint, while other automakers have gotten a “get out of jail free” card.

Two recent developments have heated up the tech war between China and the US over semiconductors. China’s ban of Micron from infrastructure projects and Applied Materials $4 billion investment in developing advanced chip technology.

The stock market is being largely boosted by AI investments. Competitors look to capitalize on Twitter’s struggles.

The pace of ZEV adoption could make California’s shipping industry a casualty. The CARB Advanced Clean Cars Package sets standards that could disrupt supply chains or push business out of state.

The first hearing regarding AI regulation took place and there were arguments for and against creating a new federal agency in charge of AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a surprising advocate for strict AI oversight.

The history of the ad campaign by the oil industry pushing recycling, despite knowing it was not viable. The first part of a series of harmful exploitations of the push for ecologically viable industry practices.

A revolutionary new method of launching satellites into orbit would “throw” a rocket half the distance of LEO, saving enormous amounts of rocket fuel. The difficulties include being able to reuse a launcher that is traveling at Mach 6.

Markets are flat but there are big announcements that could have major impacts on two companies, and tech as a whole.

The Billionaire Space Race has cooled off, with all of the big players experiencing challenges since Bezos and Branson went to space in July of 2021. What is the state of commercial space travel?

Google held its annual developer’s conference, showcasing improvements to its mobile lineup as well as unveiling improvements to its LLM and AI products.

Crypto has shown significant and steady growth through 2023, but the threat of regulatory overreach from the SEC is always looming.

Palantir showed continued revenue growth on its earnings report and shared that they expect to be profitable through 2023. Their achievements in AI show promise for the company and an interest by the markets for all things AI.

After favorable earnings reports from tech’s biggest companies, the industry hopes to keep optimism high.

Apple’s earnings came in above expectations. Stock price is up, as are other big tech names.

Pharma “patent cliffs” have led to a surge of big buyouts of small biotech companies.

Amazon is getting in on the AI trend with Bedrock and plans to expand Alexa capabilities using LLM advancements. AI could improve the already surprising profits of AWS.

China has a possibly insurmountable head start on most new sustainable energy methods. They hold an overwhelming majority of the market share of solar panel part manufacturing. The solution for the US may not be chasing down China, but rather revisiting nuclear energy.

We’re still full steam ahead for earnings season right now. This week, we get some more reports from the world’s biggest tech names.