Doing magic mushrooms this Sunday. Protocol + dose: 5 grams + frequency: 1x/mo for 3 mo + objective: exploring longevity effects Measurement + 249 independent biomarkers + 29 vials of blood + brain scans + urine, stool, saliva, fertility + multi-omics profiling (DNA,

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The story of Open Claw’s Founder → be Peter Steinberger → sell your company PSPDFKit for $100M+ → spend three years in existential crisis → come back, vibe-code 43 failed projects → project 44 is Clawdbot, an open-source AI agent → goes viral → Anthropic hits you with a

We tend to think of batteries as the ones in our phones. But the real shift is happening at grid scale. Utility-scale “mega batteries” now have hundreds of millions of times the capacity of smartphone battery. Costs down ~40% since 2024 Capacity in 2024 12x higher than in 2020

Advancing #AIforGood to benefit humanity. At the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, Team Int’l Telecommunication Union will be putting the spotlight on standards, skills and solutions. Now more than ever, we need to collaborate on an AI future that delivers prosperity for all people and our planet.

Entrust face biometrics show major gains in NIST FRTE #biometrics #facialrecognition Entrust National Institute of Standards and Technology biometricupdate.com/202602/entrust…

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MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway across the universe University of Pretoria-led team opens a new frontier using the power of MeerKAT and strong gravitational lensing Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most

On behalf of all South Africans, I extend my condolences to the Jackson family, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the many organisations within the American Civil Rights Movement and in causes elsewhere in the world who were inspired by the Rev Jesse Jackson’s principles and

Proud to be part of this collaboration on identifying Africa-centric AI safety risks, led by ILINA Program! As the India AI Impact Summit gets underway, work examining context-specific AI evaluations & safety risks is needed now more than ever. arxiv.org/abs/2602.13757

Just asked the four Grok 4.20 (Beta) agents to build me an artificial life simulator. My mind is blown. What should I get him to build next? >>> grok prompt Build an artificial life simulator in one single HTML file. Hundreds of glowing neon particles in different cyberpunk

Fellow South Africans, In a year where we were overwhelmed by the deeply misguided and misleading posts that our farming sector is under siege and “VERY BAD THINGS” are happening in our country, the data paints quite a positive picture of the sector. This is a reality we have

I spent some time this morning teaching a grade 12 class at one of Johannesburg’s girls' high schools. The textbooks, particularly on geography, agriculture, and land matters, need some updating with new and refreshing case studies. We need to ensure that the kids are studying

Sufficiently advanced agentic coding is essentially machine learning: the engineer sets up the optimization goal as well as some constraints on the search space (the spec and its tests), then an optimization process (coding agents) iterates until the goal is reached. The result

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Concluded on Jan 27, the #EU–#India Free Trade Agreement (#FTA), links two massive markets, boosting #trade, services, and mobility while anchoring #economic ties amid global fragmentation and# tariff uncertainty: Shairee Malhotra or-f.org/37287

That’s a wrap on testing, bring on the season 🇧🇭✌🏾

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Figure's San Jose headquarters. 1 year and 3 months apart.