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Mary Means Business: New Salon opening in Columbus next month
More life is being breathed into Catfish Alley with a new business opening next month.
Jamie Lee Curtis plays Elizabeth Holmes in intense 'You Can See Everything' parody
Fallon gives his best Nathan Fielder.
Just Got an iPhone Duo? Try These Features First
Apple's iPhone Duo launched on Friday, October 23 in markets around the world. Keep reading if you're the lucky owner of Apple's first foldable iPhone. Whether you're upgrading from an older iPhone or completely new to Apple, this guide will help you get the most out of your new device.
4 Indian-Origin Science Communicators Win Schmidt Awards 2026
4 Indian-origin science communicators win Schmidt Awards 2026 in US. Learn about Aatish Bhatia, Harini Bhat, Anand Varma & Rupsa Chakraborty.
Trump and Obama trade barbs on campaign trail in final days before midterm election
Former president says ‘these are not serious people’ as Trump holds rallies for Republican candidates
Less than 42 minutes of bright daylight linked to higher dementia risk
Getting more daylight could be linked to a surprisingly powerful benefit for brain health. In a study of more than 87,000 adults, researchers found that higher daytime light exposure was associated with a 16% lower risk of dementia, with longer exposure to bright light linked to even greater reductions. Remarkably, getting less than 42 minutes of bright daylight daily was a stronger predictor of dementia than six established risk factors.
How Katie Lee channeled a chaotic coming of age into a business empire
Katie Lee is a success, by any metric. She has four bustling Katie’s restaurants to her name in St. Louis and a line of packaged goods—jarred sauces and pasta bakes and frozen pizzas—selling at retailers across the U.S. She also boasts 500 employees and a brand synonymous with Italian chic. Keep up with local business […]
Iraqi court hands down prison terms to 2 politicians and an oil official in graft case
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court sentenced two prominent politicians and the head of a state-run enterprise responsible for distributing oil products to prison sentences in a corruption case, officials announced Thursday.
Alaska's governor orders investigation after NYT report on alleged Dem-linked Senate election scheme
Following a New York Times report on an alleged Democrat-linked scheme involving the state's U.S. Senate contest, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, ordered an investigation.
Research report: The prince and the scientists
A commentary in EMBO Reports argues that scientific leadership is a distinct, neglected skill and that institutions should be managed as ecosystems built on trust.
Tyler approves zoning change for proposed downtown entertainment area
The Tyler City Council on Wednesday approved a zoning change for a proposed downtown community-oriented retail and entertainment area and an agreement with AXON Enterprise for new police technology equipment. […]
An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’
Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.
Will Hurd Worked With Sam Altman. His (P)Doom Is “Not Zero.”
Will Hurd was scared about AI way before you were.
New simulation of the universe shows the first 2 billion years after the Big Bang play out in stunning detail
A new program aims to help scientists figure out how the ingredients of the universe formed early galaxies, which lit up the cosmos after a "dark age."
CMS COO: Hospice, Home Health Moratoria a Successful Approach
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) temporary moratoria on hospice and home health provider enrollment in Medicare has been
BTIG cuts Flutter Entertainment stock price target on international headwinds
BTIG cuts Flutter Entertainment stock price target on international headwinds
A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards
Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables.
Jones County welcomes new mental health liaison
Emma Smith, who works for Foundation 2 Crisis Services, is Jones County’s first mental health liaison. She’ll respond to mental health-related 911 calls, follow up with people who have mental health needs, collaborate with school resource officers and supplement the mental health work done by county law enforcement.
Surf Air Mobility Provides SurfOS Business Update, Highlighting OperatorOS Commercial Launch and Enterprise Growth Priorities
LOS ANGELES, October 29, 2026--Surf Air Mobility Inc. (NYSE: SRFM) ("Surf Air Mobility" or "the Company") today provided an update on recent achievements and priorities for SurfOS, the Company’s AI-enabled software operating system powered by Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) ("Palantir").
Vaso Rahimzadeh Joins Sen. Mark Kelly's Office as Science Detailee
Vaso Rahimzadeh joined Sen. Mark Kelly's office as an AAAS science detailee effective Sept. 1, 2026. Read more on the staff move and Kelly's committees.
Kim Kardashian’s Political Future Depends on Two Big Priorities
Kim Kardashian has opened up about her political ambitions, suggesting that a move into politics may still be a long way off. According to a report, the reality TV star wants to pass the bar exam and ...
Beloved platformer Celeste mysteriously delisted from Xbox store
Celeste, the acclaimed platformer that was first released in 2018, has been quietly pulled from the Xbox store and can no longer be purchased.
PNC and ADP integrate payroll tools into small business banking
PNC and ADP integrate payroll and workforce tools into digital banking, targeting small businesses with embedded services.
Support Hubs Help New Researchers Break Through Bottlenecks at Big Science Facilities
A formative evaluation of a Horizon Europe project finds that dedicated support hubs significantly raise the odds that new researchers clear technical feasibility checks at European research infrastructures, while a downstream gap between laboratory validation and industrial
George Cheeks sets Skydance TV leadership across studios, sports, entertainment, news
Skydance TV co-chair and chief content officer George Cheeks has named the leadership team that will work under him across the company's studios business, entertainment, sports and news.
With new digital dashboard, Morrisey promises to move at ‘the speed of business’
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey launched a new digital dashboard that offers a one-stop shop for businesses applying for permits. The system, which had a soft launch Oct. 1, pulls together permit applications from 13 different agencies. It will also include a fast-track application process. The One Stop Shop Permitting Portal is part of the Speed to Build initiative.
37 Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Group: Q3 sales grew, but launch spending and investment losses drove a sharp adjusted-profit decline
Q3 revenue rose YoY and QoQ, led by strategy, casual and overseas growth, but adjusted profit fell sharply as new-game promotion costs were front-loaded. A Zhipu-linked investment loss also weighed on reported earnings.Original document: 37 Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Group Co., Lt…
MORNING BUSINESS REPORT: Apple unveils first touchscreen laptop
Cait and Roger have your Thursday Morning Business Report.
Wisconsin price checks cited in federal lawsuit against Dollar General
No store in the Madison area is specifically mentioned in the lawsuit, which accuses the retail giant of systemic pricing inaccuracies and overcharges.
The NHL season is one month old. Here are strong starts we believe.
The 2026-27 NHL season is officially one month old. Here are strong starts that have staying power.
Browns using Steelers' iconic 'Renegade' hype song at practice
The Cleveland Browns are preparing for their Week 8 matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers by blaring "Renegade" at practice.
Owensboro business asking community for help ID’ing robbery thief
A $1,000 reward is being offered for any information that leads to an arrest.
Jen Walker, Full Strength Physical Therapy top Chamber ALX's 2026 Best in Business awards
A committee of past winners read 58 applications and picked 36 finalists in six categories, according to remarks at Wednesday's ceremony
Nestlé and BirdLife Europe & Central Asia partner to measure how regenerative agriculture practices support biodiversity
A science-led collaboration will use farmland birds as trusted indicators of biodiversity.
Zwift Plus Explained: Zwift Video Routes & Zwift Coach Hands-On
Everything you need to know about Zwift Routes and Zwift Coach, from real rides with real people on real roads, to how it all works.
A serial killer, an obsessed cop and an undercover FBI agent. Welcome to Apple's 'Nocturne'
Stephen Graham dives into the mind of a serial killer for his role in the new Apple TV series “Nocturne.” He binged on true crime documentaries, handpicked by his wife, to prepare for the role....
A serial killer, an obsessed cop and an undercover FBI agent. Welcome to Apple's 'Nocturne'
Stephen Graham dives into the mind of a serial killer for his role in the new Apple TV series “Nocturne.” | Talk 1370
Only about half of social science findings held up when retested, major replication project finds
Psychology’s replication problems drew wide attention after 2015. A new study in Nature suggests the challenge is not unique to psychology: across economics, education, business, sociology, and political science, success rates were similar.
Commentary: Why I believe in voting
I think everyone should vote, but not for the aggravating script we’ve heard over the last two decades. I think people should vote because they matter, their lives matter, their voice matters, and they deserve to be heard.
In the Lead: The Daily Record announces 2026 Best Family-Owned Businesses
Surely, some families and businesses just aren’t meant to mix. But in other cases, the personalities, skill sets and trust are a perfect match. The Daily Record is proud to honor our In the Lead: Best Family-Owned Businesses who got that recipe right.
Column: Poll-dancing Michigan politics
As this is written, we’re on the home stretch for the Nov. 3 midterm election, and I’m looking forward to an end to the endless texts and television commercials if less than enthusiastic about who the polls say will wind up crossing the thr…
‘She could have gotten away with’ murder: The dangerous science behind the Queen of Crime
New explorations reveal the early education and adventures of bestselling author Agatha Christie, who did more than dip her toe in the world of science.
For 112 years, a Central NY dairy farm family made milk and memories. Now they can sleep in
Trump administration kills science ed program named for Lou Stokes; Rep. Shontel Brown appeals
U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown wants the Justice Department to provide the evidence it used to support canceling several National Science Foundation programs including one named after former Rep. Louis Stokes of Cleveland
Political homelessness: How the Michigan Senate race divided the Jewish community
The high-stakes race caused a rift among Jewish voters unhappy with Abdul El-Sayed
Arts and entertainment events happening October 29th - November 1st across the Mid-Ohio Valley
Arts and entertainment events happening October 29th - November 1st across the Mid-Ohio Valley
It's a 'socialist' bank — and North Dakota Republicans love it
Democratic socialist candidates have held up North Dakota's state-owned bank as a model to emulate.
Liability for clinical AI
Aligning accountability with clinical authority to protect patients and support responsible innovation. Learn more.
'Out of control' healthcare costs and too few solutions worry Northeast Ohio voters
Rising healthcare costs are a top concern for voters. Will it influence how they vote this election?
Georgia is single-handedly shifting the conversation on Black women in politics
It’s a milestone years in the making, backed by major efforts to organize and register voters.
Today’s horoscope: Taurus - Avoid costly entertainment (Oct. 29, 2026)
Celebrities born on this day: Ben Foster, 46; Gabrielle Union, 54; Winona Ryder, 55; Richard Dreyfuss, 79.
The Trump Aide Trying to Stop a Blue Wave
James Blair, the president’s top political strategist, planned for a different midterm cycle. Then Trump attacked Iran.
Street artist Barry McGee brings color and community to Jeffrey Deitch
Barry McGee, the celebrated graffiti artist who caused an uproar when his pop-up installation at a 99 Cents Only Store on Wilshire Boulevard drew a wild crowd, is bringing his street art to Jeffrey Deitch gallery.
Television Q&A: Why do dogs get barking mad at 'The Traitors'?
You have questions. I have some answers. Q: My wife and I started watching “The Traitors” but had to stop after two episodes. There is a whistle during the show
'Music Man' review: Revival isn't up to CTG standards
A non-Equity national tour of Meredith Willson's 'The Music Man,' directed by Matt Lenz, opens at the Ahmanson Theatre.
How to deal with a big personality. Art can help.
The fine art of dealing with a know-it-all.
Television Q&A: Why do dogs get barking mad at 'The Traitors'?
You have questions. I have some answers. Q: My wife and I started watching “The Traitors” but had to stop after two episodes. There is a whistle during the show
How Ireland became Hollywood's latest hub for global filming
Ireland, with its storytelling tradition, infrastructure, experienced crews, lower labor costs and competitive tax incentives, has become a major filming destination for American films, TV series and even game shows as movie and TV productions leave Los Angeles to film elsewhere.
Study reveals new clues to why colorectal cancer in young people is so deadly
Colorectal cancer in young people shows genetic and structural differences that may make it more aggressive and treatment-resistant than the cancer tends to be in older people.
How hospitals are reworking care for sicker patients
Hospitals are treating sicker patients, spurring health systems to expand capacity, standardize care and cut costs.
Do You Still Need Your Antidepressant? What to Know Before You Stop
Do you have to take antidepressants forever? The answer isn’t the same for everyone, explains psychiatric medication expert Jane Sundberg, PharmD, BCPP of University of Rochester Medicine.
Pens Points: Mammoth Sighting
It was a much needed four day break for a battered Pittsburgh Penguins team, but now the schedule resumes and it wastes no time throwing the team right back into the fight with another matchup against the Utah Mammoth, the same team that just beat up on the Penguins 11 days ago to close out […]
Virgin Galactic unveils new rocket plane to restart space tourism
Tustin-based Virgin Galactic moved its first six-passenger Delta-class ship to New Mexico for months of testing, hoping to revive space tourism after retiring its previous plane in 2024.
MARIA BARTIMORO TO HOST AMERICA BUSINESS FORUM 2026
America Business Forum today announced that Maria Bartiromo will serve as Host of America Business Forum 2026, taking place December 16-17 at Kaseya Center in Miami. Across two days, Bartiromo will guide the conversations on the forum's main stage, before a live arena audience and a global broadcast.
Ice cream business new to Aiken coming to the Southside. Where will it be located?
AIKEN — Work has begun on the Southside to turn a former barbershop into an ice cream business. Stone Cold Creamery’s first location here will be in the shopping center that Target anchors on Whiskey ...
Patrick’s Politics: You can’t afford to vote Republican
Rising inflation and sky-high gas prices. Blatant mismanagement of foreign policy. A fading president losing his grip on reality. These were all attacks used by Republicans against former President…
Is Montana holding the key to undoing Citizens United?
A measure on Tuesday's ballot aims to stem the flow of dark money spending in the state—and maybe beyond.
Exclusive: Ro launches AI agent for healthcare
Ro is just the latest healthcare company to launch an AI agent. Can it become a healthcare "quarterback?"
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
Xbox consoles get a massive October 2026 update adding loads of new features
A major Xbox system update for October 2026 is now live, adding exciting new features like Mythic achievements and improved Remote Play quality.
Providence investment policy should be based on fiduciary principles, not politics
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Pirates need to add a veteran starting pitcher
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Change or continuity? Benson and James battle down stretch run for governor’s office
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Weekly Entertainment Report: Live music and lively arts, Oct. 29-Nov. 1
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Cash for coverage becomes workplace insurance option
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FFA Nationals in Indianapolis, a field trip to Chicago, a band performance in St. Louis ... and much, much more.
Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In
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Northampton Main Street clash deepens political divides
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Xbox Mythic achievements now live for all console players
A new Xbox console update finally makes the Mythic achievement — a reward for completing a game's base achievement list — available for all players.
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
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Coastal Carolina Fair returns to Ladson with rides, food and live entertainment
LADSON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Coastal Carolina Fair returns to Exchange Park on Thursday, bringing 11 days of rides, games, food and entertainment to the Lowcountry. The annual fair runs from Oct. 29 thro...
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HUNTINGTON — Several chances to see live music, as well as meet authors and share your own creations, are on tap this week. Here are events to look out for.
Longtime Hornell business owners launch downtown artisan sandwich shop
Krissy and Ryan Bale are taking on a new challenge with a Main Street sandwich shop in downtown Hornell, the Herb N’ Spice Sandwich Co.
Treasure Coast high school football: Week 11 FHSAA scores
Catch up on the Florida high school football results from Treasure Coast for the latest week of the season.
Vote for the next Las Cruces small business spotlight
Las Cruces residents can vote on which local small business will be featured in an upcoming Sun News profile.
Stanford scientists discover method to restore bleached coral
Healthy coral can jumpstart a full recovery in bleached corals in as little as three days.