A fashion photoshoot of a runway look inspired by science. A large screen displays the word “Science” –ar 4:3 –style raw
“Microsoft researchers just introduced Aurora, a new AI foundation model to generate accurate weather forecasting insights The day that the weatherman is truly right 100% of the time might be coming sooner than most people probably think
Introducing Aurora: The first large-scale foundation model of the atmosphere – Microsoft Research
No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides. | Ars Technica
Using AI to decode dog vocalizations | University of Michigan News
AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study | Antibiotics | The Guardian
“This is HUGE – AI predicted nearly 1 MILLION new antibiotics in groundbreaking study. Out of 100 tested peptides, 79 were active in vitro, 63 of these targeted pathogens “We have been able to just accelerate the discovery of antibiotics,” de la Fuente said. “So instead of having
“Earth 2 is easily one of my favorite projects — fusing geospatial imagery, physics simulation, genAI and 3D visualization to help countries & corporations to predict and respond to extreme weather. And now it goes to street level ft. an AI Jensen Huang delivering the narration.
Scientists develop ultra-thin battery that could be charged by tears
“Ask your dentist about AI. First AI-generated post that I’ve shared that I remember. If it weren’t for the “Automated” tag, probably because @askniah_ was honest, which I appreciate, I wouldn’t be able to tell this wasn’t done by a human. At least it not longer is freaking”
“Niah: the AI assistant that’s changing the game for dentists. Visit
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
Thanks for reading!
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