This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 22)
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Summary
Google’s new AI can generate hypotheses for researchers, with the company now angling to turn AI into a scientist or “co-scientist”
Norwegian robotics firm 1X is developing a humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, for use in people’s homes, featuring a system capable of performing household tasks
The LA Project aims to speed up the breeding of engineered pets, such as glow-in-the-dark rabbits and hypoallergenic cats and dogs.
DeepSeek is developing a competitive simulated reasoning model for AI that is free to download and use under an MIT license, with the company promising to release the code behind its model next week.
Engineers have created extremely fine fibres inspired by spider silk and hagfish slime, measuring just 1.5 microns thick.
AI agents are evolving from simple heuristics to sophisticated models analysing human personality in real-time to optimise persuasion, and could soon be shaping human decision-making.
Spending on AI is booming, with major tech companies, national governments and venture capitalists investing at unprecedented levels.
