Friday, September 25, 2026

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system

1,000x Speedup: Scientists Just Broke Through a Major Quantum Computing Bottleneck

https://scitechdaily.com/1000x-speedup-scientists-just-broke-through-a-major-quantum-computing-bottleneck/

Einstein Called It “Spooky.” CERN Just Found It at Extreme Energies at the Large Hadron Collider

https://scitechdaily.com/einstein-called-it-spooky-cern-just-found-it-at-extreme-energies-at-the-large-hadron-collider/

DNA Has a Four-Letter Alphabet. Scientists Just Expanded It to Eight

https://scitechdaily.com/a-long-held-idea-about-alzheimers-tau-may-be-wrong/

DNA Has a Four-Letter Alphabet. Scientists Just Expanded It to Eight

Considering all the variations of life evolution has been able to create with just 4 letters…what orders of magnitude more might 8 result in?


I had to ask GPT. It said this: “So for something the length of a modest 1,000-base gene, an eight-letter alphabet has about 301 additional orders of magnitude of possible sequences.”

Holy crap!

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

The cost of intelligence is collapsing faster than anything in the history of technology

“The cost of intelligence is collapsing faster than anything in the history of technology. According to the Stanford HAI 2025 AI Index Report, the cost of querying an AI system performing at GPT-3.5 level dropped from $20.00 per million tokens in November 2022 to just $0.07 per million tokens by October 2024. That is a 280-fold reduction in approximately 24 months. For the price of a coffee, anyone can now command research capability that five years ago would have required a team of specialists and millions in capital. The barrier to creating, building, and launching has been effectively removed.”

https://sixforksreport.com/fork-1?utm_campaign=53260394-6%20Forks&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=439339857&utm_content=439339855&utm_source=hs_email

Scientists Cure Cancer By Injecting Frog Bacteria

Well that is promising.

https://youtube.com/shorts/VGvuEc_tLQY?si=Icg_DI2foKUHizn5

We’re Already Inside It (the Singularity)

The Singularity is here. And that robot is pretty terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karLUZD9BRk