The newsletter also discusses the future of America's public health, an AI-created portrait of Alan Turing selling for $1 million, and the potential of harnessing energy from space. It also mentions the influence of right-wing influencers online, the dismissal of an academic's lawsuit against Meta, and the lack of interest in AI-generated videos on Reddit. The newsletter concludes with a feature on the revival of early internet aesthetics through HTML programming.
Key takeaways:
- AI is making significant progress in fields such as physics, chemistry, and materials science, potentially challenging the dominance of quantum computing.
- Ten states in the US voted on abortion rights, with some voting to extend and protect access to abortion, despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago.
- Black Americans have received racist texts threatening them with slavery, some of which claim to be from Trump supporters or the Trump administration.
- There is a movement among programmers to revive the use of HTML for building websites, celebrating individuality and the human touch in digital experiences.