Zuckerberg claims ‘superintelligence is now in sight’ as Meta lavishes billions on AI

Zuckerberg wrote that the company differs from other AI firms in that Meta aims to bring “personal superintelligence to everyone”. Other companies are focused on primarily using “superintelligence” for productivity and to automate “all valuable work”, he wrote. “The rest of this decade seems likely to be the decisive period for determining the path this technology will take, and whether superintelligence will be a tool for personal empowerment or a force focused on replacing large swaths of society,” he wrote.

Gemini Deep Think learns math, wins gold medal at International Math Olympiad

Google says its specially tuned math AI got five of the six questions correct, which is good enough for gold medal status. And unlike OpenAI, Google played by the rules set forth by the IMO.

These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives

Working out how to govern how AI agents interact with each other is arguably an even steeper challenge, and it’s one the Agent2Agent protocol (A2A), introduced by Google in April, tries to take on. Whereas MCP translates requests between words and code, A2A tries to moderate exchanges between agents, which is an “essential next step for the industry to move beyond single-purpose agents,” Rao Surapaneni, who works with A2A at Google Cloud, wrote in an email to MIT Technology Review.

Scientist Shine a Laser Through a Human Head. It’s the first step toward an inexpensive new medical imager

Now, a research group in Glasgow has come up with a mechanism that could one day provide the depth of fMRI using equipment as affordable and portable as an EEG. The technology will rely on something that previously seemed impossible—shining light all the way through a person’s head.For years, brain imaging techniques using light, called optical brain imaging, have struggled against that barrier to becoming widely used in research and clinical practice.

Musk’s Neuralink to test brain chips in clinical study in Great Britain

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test how its chips can enable patients with severe paralysis to control digital and physical tools with their thoughts. The company is partnering with the University College London Hospitals trust and Newcastle Hospitals to conduct the study.

IBM, Moderna Use Quantum Computing to Model mRNA Structure

IBM Quantum and Moderna have used quantum simulation to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence, the longest nucleotide folding pattern simulated on a quantum computer to date.

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. The space plane will advance the development of a new navigation technology based on electromagnetic wave interference. The Space Force news release characterizes this as the “highest-performing quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space.”