Agreed with the first part, but I think the nuanced part is what you mean by “this technology”. AI may help all of this, but pure, domain-general LLMs per se probably won’t. Domain-specific neurosymbolic hybrids offer more hope for science than chatbots do. See my October NYT
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Quebec AI Sovereign Vision Initiative Launches Global Ambition
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QUÉBEC ♡ AI The time has come to build Québec’s crown jewel in artificial intelligence: http://
QUEBEC.AI. A sovereign vision.
A global ambition.
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Self-Sufficient Robot Autonomously Swaps Its Own Batteries
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Self-Sufficient #Robot Swaps Its Own Batteries for Continuous Operation
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 3 mai 2026
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#AI #Robotics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML pic.twitter.com/4bLCNpmjIaSelf-Sufficient #Robot Swaps Its Own Batteries for Continuous Operation
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Diverse Simulated Personas Boost ReviewerToo Performance
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Oh, and in case that's interesting: one data point supporting the value of diversity in point of view from our work on ReviewerToo is that we get the best results when we pool more simulated reviewing personas in our system
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Open-Source Agent Framework Automatically Fixes Its Own Production Bugs
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Someone built an agent that fixes its own bugs on autopilot. Agents fail in production constantly. Hallucinated tool calls, refusal loops, redundant arguments. Fixing these usually means engineers digging through thousands of traces by hand. A new open-source framework
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Codex App Ships GPT-5.5 Browser Control Sheets Slides and More
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Codex for everything. Over the last 2 weeks, we shipped a pretty big set of updates: GPT-5.5, browser control, Sheets & Slides, Docs & PDFs, OS-wide dictation, auto-review mode, /pets, and a .tex plugin. The whole app also got better: dynamic UI for the task at hand, ~20%
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Google Gemini Flash and New Omni Model Rumors Circulate
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Rumors so far: – Google Gemini Flash 3.2/3.5 (already being tested)
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Open vs Closed AI Models: Beyond Benchmark Gaps
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This is a good explanation of why the gap between open and closed models is larger than it appears in benchmarks. I would add in that current open models are also more fragile than closed: they handle out-of-distribution problems far less well & have lower emergent capabilities.
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Origami Wheels Enable Shape-Shifting Mobility for Adaptive Robots
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Origami Wheels Enable Shape-Shifting Mobility for Adaptive #Robots
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 3 mai 2026
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#EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation pic.twitter.com/ASyvQSNqKWOrigami Wheels Enable Shape-Shifting Mobility for Adaptive #Robots
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Sex Robots Approved in China as Silicon Valley Builds Future Bots
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In China the government just approved sex robots I learned by speaking at Dreame, a big Chinese consumer electronics company. The future is weird. I ran a panel with four companies building robots at Silicon Valley AI Hub this week. One was with this guy who is helping