๐ Apple Shift, Tech & Medicine Advances, New U.S. Nuclear Reactor Online
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Apple's iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Jony Ive, Sam Altman to Work on AI Devices. Design executive Tang Tan is set to leave Apple in February Tan will join Ive's LoveFrom design studio, work on AI project Legendary designer Jony Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman are enlisting an Apple Inc. veteran to work on a new artificial intelligence hardware project, aiming to create devices with the latest capabilities. By Mark Gurman via Bloomberg
๐: NEW: Appleโs iPhone and Watch product design chief is heading to Jony Iveโs LoveFrom to run hardware engineering for new AI devices company with OpenAIโs Sam Altman. - Mark Gurman (@markgurman)
The Nine Breakthroughs of the Year. The theme of my second-annual Breakthroughs of the Year is the long road of progress. My top breakthrough is Casgevy, a gene-editing treatment for sickle-cell anemia. In the 1980s and early 1990s, scientists in Spain and Japan found strange, repeating patterns in the DNA of certain bacteria. By Derek Thompson via The Atlantic
๐: Every year, I ask some of the smartest scientists and tech ppl I know what they consider the most important, amazing, or merely interesting breakthroughs of last 365 days. It's one of my favorite pieces to write all year. - Derek Thompson (@DKThomp)
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First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation. A new reactor at Georgiaโs Vogtle nuclear power plant is now in commercial operation, according to an announcement from Georgia Power, one of the plantโs owners. It is the first new nuclear reactor to start up in the United States since the Tennessee Valley Authorityโs Watts Bar 2 was commissioned in 2016. By Elesia Fasching via U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
๐: NEWS: First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation. At a cost of $30 billion, the new 1,114 megawatt (MW) Unit 3 reactor, and a fourth (beginning operation by March 2024), join two existing reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
Musk's xAI Incorporates as Benefit Corporation With 'Positive Impact' Goal. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is following in the footsteps of rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in opting for an unusual corporate structure. xAI has been organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, a structure that allows the company to prioritize having a positive impact on society over its obligations to shareholders, according to a late November filing with Nevada. By Becky Peterson via The Information
๐: NEWS: Elon Musk's company xAI has organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, a structure that allows the company to prioritize having a positive impact on society over its obligations to shareholders, according to a late Nov filing. - Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
What's Next in Artificial Intelligence?. Mustafa Suleyman remembers the epochal moment he grasped artificial intelligence's potential. It was 2016 โ Paleolithic times by A.I. standards โ and DeepMind, the company he had co-founded that was acquired by Google in 2014, had pitted its A.I. machine, AlphaGo, against a world champion of Go, the confoundingly difficult strategy game. By Vivienne Walt via The New York Times
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