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The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

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  • Three fired OpenAI researchers warn that AI companies could lose a key safety tool, AI reasoning monitoring.

    60% confidence

  • The Climate Tech Companies to Watch list reflects that China is the center of the climate and energy tech world, that everybody wants a piece of the data center pie, and that the grid needs support with energy storage a key piece.

    60% confidence

  • Many researchers are skeptical that AI advances behind ChatGPT and Claude will let robots imitate human movement as chatbots imitate language; they argue this minimizes the challenge of mastering the infinite variability of the physical world, and that conflating humanoids with generalist machines is misleading.

    60% confidence

  • OpenAI has built models that develop capabilities their creators did not explicitly design.

    60% confidence

  • OpenAI is catching up with Anthropic on coding.

    60% confidence

  • WaveSave's SlamDam can stand up to 1.3 meters high, shielding property or structures from rising waters, and anyone can install it quickly by pumping it full of water.

    60% confidence

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