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#3,300 – AI Week: Mark | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
This is a post about an AI bookmark not my stepdad. https://twitter.com/markhardware/status/1894812320397955254 According to the thread posted above the makers of this new AI bookmark believe that reading is dead and knowledge is being lost since all we do is scroll through screens instead of flip through pages. Their solution is a device that provides…
#3,299 – AI Week: Alexa+ | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Alexa is getting an upgrade. Amazon's personal assistant will now be boosted with AI supercharging its capabilities and turning it into an agent capable of acting on your behalf. For example, it could make you a dinner reservation, hail you an uber, and then text you when your car has arrived. Amazon explains on their…
#3,296 – AI Week: IllusionCAPTCHA | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
CAPTCHAs may soon be getting an upgrade. Converting into optical illusions that AI can't yet recognize. Peta Pixel explains: "Most internet users are familiar with image-based CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), which ask users to identify objects like traffic lights or motorcycles in a grid of photos. These…
#3,297 – AI Week: Grain of Salt Chip | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
A tiny AI chip the size of a grain of salt is remarkably capable of performing calculations. A breakthrough that could help reduce the amount of energy that AI systems will use. Popular Science explains: "Fiber optic cables have a bottleneck problem. Although they’re capable of transporting encoded data at the speed of light, translating…
#3,298 – AI Week: Antiqua et Nova | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
The Vatican has been in the news lately as the health of Pope Francis has deteriorated putting him in critical condition with a bout of pneumonia. But it's something else that they announced recently that caught my attention: a paper called Antiqua et Nova exploring the relationship between man and AI. You can read the…
#3,295 – AI Week: Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
In today's day and age of shortened attention spans most people want things right away. Whether that's the answer to a search question, response to a text message or source of entertainment. The sooner the better. But Anthropic is betting that for some tasks you might want an AI that takes a little bit longer…
#3,293 – AI Week: Evo 2 | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
A new AI foundational model focused on biology can write DNA on demand and design genomes from scratch. It could even lead to the creation of a biological "app store". Nature explains: "Scientists today released what they say is the biggest-ever artificial-intelligence (AI) model for biology. The model — which was trained on 128,000 genomes spanning the…
#3,294 – AI Week: Torque Clustering | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Here's a scary thought: an AI that learns on its own without human intervention. A new approach that could lead to new discoveries. Sci Tech Daily explains: "Researchers have developed a new AI algorithm, Torque Clustering, which more closely mimics natural intelligence than existing methods. This advanced approach enhances AI’s ability to learn and identify…
#3,292 – AI Week: Google Co-Scientist | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Scientific breakthroughs usually occur incrementally with new discoveries slowly building upon prior research. You can't just get from Point A to Point C without first going from Point A to Point B. But thanks to AI we may be able to speed up the process somewhat. As every scientist will now have an AI partner.…
#3,290 – Majorona 1 | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Back in December I wrote about Google's Willow. A quantum computing chip that they claimed proves the existence of the Multiverse, uses other universes to perform its calculations, and can calculate things in less than five minutes that would take other computers longer than the Universe has even been around to do. Now, just two months…
#3,288 – Movie Start Time Law | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
There's been a lot of changes occurring within the U.S. Government at the start of the year as President Musk lays off federal workers, cuts funding, and guts agencies. But hidden among all the Executive Orders, antics of DOGE and general mismanagement there is one new law I can get behind: a proposal to force…
#3,291 – AI Week: Grok 3 | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
What five things has Elon Musk accomplished this past week? One of them is easily the release of Grok 3, which some are claiming may now be the best AI chatbot out there. Readwrite explains: "Grok 3 is officially here. Elon Musk’s AI model has already raised eyebrows with its ability to generate hyperrealistic images of famous people, including…
#3,289 – Tabletop | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
The NBA has been much maligned of late. Ratings are down, the All-Star game was terrible, and the future of the league, Victor Wembanyama, is out for the year. The Apple Vision Pro has also been much maligned of late. Sales are down, the product hasn't caught on and there's talk of shutting it down.…
#3,280 – AI Week: Cosmos | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
One of Nvidia's other breakthroughs unveiled at CES was Cosmos, their world foundational model that is poised to bring AI to the physical world. Wired explains: "Nvidia announced today its releasing a family of foundational AI models called Cosmos that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots, and self-driving cars. While language models learn…
#3,287 – Sports Week: Sluggball | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
In addition to a new basketball league and a new golf league we may also get a new baseball league. One dedicated to the art of situational hitting. Now you may be wondering why it's called Sluggball if the point is hitting for average and not for power but that's a story for another day.…
#3,285 – Sports Week: Cosm | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
It's one of the toughest choices a sports fan has to make. Spend big money to attend the game in person or watch from the comfort of your living room. There's pros and cons to both. For some, nothing beats attending a game live. Feeding off the energy of the crowd just like the players…
#3,282 – AI Week: Particle | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
AI is starting to help us out in a myriad of ways from drafting email responses and answering questions to populating search results and generating images. And soon it could help us make sense of the news. The Verge explains: "Particle’s plan is to use AI to do two particularly useful things. First, it organizes…
#3,284 – Sports Week: New Basketball League | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
The NBA world was turned upside down this week when the Dallas Mavericks abruptly traded away one of the best players in the league, Luka Dončić, a still in his prime 25-year-old future Hall of Famer, to the famed Los Angeles Lakers of all teams, in the middle of the night, in what some are…
#3,283 – AI Week: Droidspeak | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
English is spoken around the world and is often the default language used in business settings. But soon AI could have their own language, one that would be quicker for them to communicate in than English. Singularity Hub explains: "AI agents are the latest buzzword in Silicon Valley. These are AI models that can carry out…
#3,286 – Sports Week: Tomorrow’s Golf League | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
The other day I caught highlights of Tiger Woods' new indoor golf league where his team battled a team led by Rory McIllroy in a thrilling match that went into overtime. For a new league having early intrigue like that could be a big boon for business showcasing the kind of action and drama this…
#3,281 – AI Week: MatterGen | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
A lot of new materials were discovered serendipitously, by accident. Other times it's through trial and error. But what if there was an easier way? A way to just make what you needed? With MatterGen now we can. VentureBeat explains: "Microsoft Research has introduced a powerful new AI system today that generates novel materials with specific…
#3,277 – AI Week: Don’t Die | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
The other day I watched the Netflix documentary about longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson called, The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. Johnson, a successful tech entrepreneur, is a polarizing figure. Some people respect what he is doing and admire the lengths with which he's willing to go to achieve his goal. Others think he's crazy…
#3,279 – AI Week: Digits | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Before DeepSeek sent Nvidia's stock price crashing Nvidia was the darling of CES unveiling countless AI centric innovations in their developmental pipeline. Digits, a $3,000 personal AI Supercomputer was chief among them. The Verge explains: 'If you were looking for your own personal AI supercomputer, Nvidia has you covered. The chipmaker announced at CES that it’s launching…
#3,278 – AI Week: Copilot Vision | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
I previously wrote about Microsoft's AI companion Copilot, but now it's getting a new feature called Vision that will allow the AI to see what you're viewing in your browser and talk to you about it. Making the AI even more useful for both work and personal matters. The Verge explains: "Originally unveiled in October,…
#3,276 – AI Week: The Stargate Project | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
The amount of money that Nvidia has lost in the stock market today is equivalent to the amount of money that they had earmarked for their investment in the Stargate Project, a joint venture from OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, Nvidia and the U.S. government to pour $500 billion into building out AI infrastructure by 2029. The…
#3,275 – AI Week: DeepSeek | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
I had been kicking myself for not investing in Nvidia but one of the reasons why I didn't is because investing in general is so risky. At any time, a competitor or new startup could upend a company's entire business model. Google dominated search for years until AI came along. And because they were so…
#3,274 – Meme Coins | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Pump and dump no longer just refers to Hawk Tuah's personal life. Now it refers to what she did with her meme coin as well before going into hiding. That didn't deter notorious grifter Donald Trump from getting in on the action as well with a meme coin of his own just days before his…
#3,273 – The Future of TikTok | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Well, it actually happened. TikTok was actually banned. At least for now. An entire generation waking up to find out that their favorite dancing videos are no longer available. What will they do now? Read a book? Where will they go? On a hike?! For now, the answer is to head straight to RedNote, another…
#3,271 – X Algo Changes | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
I just wrote about changes coming to X in 2025 in the form of X Money and X TV but now it seems that even more changes are on the way. Including a change to the algorithm to punish negativity and make the site more pleasant. According to MSN: "Elon Musk, CEO of X, announced…
#3,270 – Click To Cancel | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
It's become the bane of modern existence. Wanting to cancel a subscription or service but not being able to as most companies either bury this option or don't even have one, instead insisting that you call them to cancel so that their sales reps can talk you out of leaving. Whether we're talking about gym…
#3,272 – 2025 Week One | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
I recently heard someone say that 2025 is a sci-fi sounding year. Like it sounds like the kind of year that someone making a movie in the past would have chosen as the year their movie took place in if it was set in the future. As was the case with the movie Her, whose…
#3,268 – Ten Years of Breakthroughs | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
For the last decade I've kicked off each year with a series of posts predicting the biggest breakthrough technologies for the year ahead. These were ideas and innovations that I had not yet written about, that were trending up and becoming buzzworthy either as the prior year concluded or the new year began. They're not…
#3,269 – Quantum Teleportation | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Thanks to a new breakthrough from Northwestern University that takes advantage of existing infrastructure, we may have just gotten one step closer to having Quantum Computers. Giving us the ability to transmit information securely and instantly. Something previously thought to be impossible. Tech Spot explains: "An engineering team at Northwestern University has achieved a breakthrough…
#3,267 – 2025 Breakthrough Nominee: AR Glasses | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Yesterday word came out that Nvidia had filed a patent for AR Glasses. https://twitter.com/NathieVR/status/1874905918749778413 This comes on the heels of Meta recently announcing Orion to go along with their Ray-Ban Glasses that recently added Live AI and Live Translation and other products in the smart glasses space such as offerings from Frame, Qualcomm, Snap and…
#3,265 – 2025 Breakthrough Nominee: Humanoid Robotics | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
If 2023 and 2024 were the year of AI, then 2025 could be the year of robotics. As Jim Fan puts in on X: There's plenty of evidence that supports this hypothesis. Elon Musk says that the Optimus Bot could be the biggest product ever as everyone will want one. Clone Alpha is coming while…
#3,266 – 2025 Breakthrough Nominee: AI-Generated Accounts | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
AI became a big part of our lives in 2024 and 2025 will be no different. We'll continue to see new image generators and chat bots as AI takes over search and countless apps, weaving its way throughout modern society. Agentic AI is likely to be one of the biggest trends of the year as…
#3,264 – 2025 Breakthrough Nominee: X Marks The Spot | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, decided to kick off the new year with a bombshell post: https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1874190054660473035 As much as it pains me to admit this right now (since I hate Elon Musk) Twitter, I mean X, (despite hemorrhaging users and advertisers) could be in store for a big year in 2025 as they unveil…
#3,263 – 2025 Predictions | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
After a whirlwind 2024 what will 2025 have in store for us. Here's a quick look at a few of my predictions: AI continues to dominate the headlines and there’s a lot of hoopla about achieving AGI but we don’t actually achieve it yet In addition to AI, 2025 becomes known as the year that…
#3,262 – 2024 Year In Review | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
It was an incredible year for innovation in 2024 from advancements in AI to new scientific discoveries. Month by month, science and technology was in the news for a host of reasons. Here's a quick look back at everything that happened in 2024: The Apple Vision Pro shipped ushering in the age of Spatial Computing…
#3,261 – The Greatest Ideas of 2024 | Greatest. Idea. Ever.
It was another astonishing year for technology with so many breakthroughs, some of which I didn't even get a chance to write about yet. I'll be recapping the year in another post but here's a quick look at some of the major advancements of the past twelve months. The ideas that we can safely say…