The newsletter also covers technology trends shaping the 2024 elections, the suspension of a developer by OpenAI for creating a political chatbot, and the licensing of a new fast-charging organic EV battery by Lamborghini. It also mentions the use of AI and robots to address labor shortages in Japan, the development of new map apps for delivery drivers, and the trial of hologram lecturers at a UK university.
Key takeaways:
- Scientists are finding signals of long covid in blood, which could lead to new treatments. The research suggests that faults in a certain part of the immune system might be at the root of some long covid cases.
- Manufacturers are turning to smaller, more modular “chiplets” to improve performance as it’s gotten immensely expensive to further shrink transistors and manufacture complex chips.
- Three technology trends shaping 2024’s elections include the use of big data to learn about and target voters, and the rapid changes at technology’s intersection with business, information, and media.
- Exascale computing, marked by the Frontier supercomputer, is set to answer previously unanswerable questions about nature and design new technologies in areas from transportation to medicine.