Small Firms Lead on Innovation, Space Penguins, Five Steps to AGI & The Death of a Lollipop

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🤖🏛️ Navigating the UK’s AI legislation: Balancing innovation and managing risk

With a new Labour government at the helm, the country's AI scene is about to get a regulatory revamp, with a more targeted and nuanced approach, especially for the big players wielding the most powerful AI models.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒💡 Smaller family companies lead innovation worldwide, researchers say

After reviewing 193 studies published from 1996 through 2022 about innovation, researchers found that smaller family companies lead the charge in innovation, with a caveat.

🤖 OpenAI outlines plan for AGI — 5 steps to reach superintelligence

OpenAI has 5 steps to reach AGI and we're only just moving towards step two — the creation of "reasoners". How do we get to Level 5 (Organisations)?

🫤💥 AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield

The US military has more than 800 active AI-related projects and requested $1.8bn worth of funding for AI in the 2024 budget alone. As the capabilities become reality, it raises alarming ethical concerns over the future of AI-augmented warfare.

🔭🐧 Warped 'penguin galaxy' spotted by JWST

Celebrating it's two year anniversary, the James Webb Space Telescope took to a bit of bird watching. It's also only a quick weekend drive away (about 325 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Hydra)

Silicon days over? Organic solar panel turns 20% of sunlight into electricity

For years, silicon has dominated the solar energy landscape. But organic semiconductors, made from carbon-based materials, offer a viable alternative at a lower cost and with greater flexibility.

⚛️💻👮 Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no basis in science

Baffling global crackdown on quantum computers over 34 qubits sparks concerns of encryption-breaking capabilities, despite no evidence of practical use.

📱🗓️ Google officially suspends support for Android Lollipop after a decade

10 years for a software product is good going. But Google have finally decided to pull the plug on Android Lollipop (Android 5.0), by discontinuing support for the Google Play Services.