Past issues

20 May 2022Issue #363

A general AI from DeepMind; reviving dead eye cells; a robotic artist gets her first solo exhibition; deepfaking vacation photos with DALL-E 2; and more!

13 May 2022Issue #362

Machine scientists help understand the world; DeepMind's new AI can help you clean up a virtual house; Spot fetches a dinner; protecting bioeconomy from hackers; and more!

06 May 2022Issue #361

Meta releases their own large language model; updates on Boston Dynamics' Spot; a robot that can taste; UK's first autonomous bus starts road tests; and more!

29 April 2022Issue #360

Philosophy Tube takes on transhumanism; actors launch a campaign against AI; Japanese VR-piloted robot; and more!

22 April 2022Issue #359

The rise of AI companions; a new way to scan brains; a robotic rat; results from the first US trial of genetically modified mosquitoes; and more!

15 April 2022Issue #358

Small Chinchilla AI outperforms GPT-3 and other giant models; what’s next for protein-folding AIs; automating Spot; earbuds that watch your brain; and more!

New image generating AI from OpenAI; Stretch is available for purchase; Alphabet brings drone delivery to Texas; how AI is changing chemistry; human skin cells de-aged by 30 years in a trial; and more!

01 April 2022Issue #356

AI beats eight world champions in bridge; drones in Ukraine and lessons for other countries; the human genome sequence is finally complete; Honda's Asimo robot retires; and more!

25 March 2022Issue #355

Nvidia reveals a new GPU for AI; worms detect lung cancer; a crazy robot from Switzerland; deep learning is hitting a wall; and more!

18 March 2022Issue #354

How facial recognition AI is used during war; US eliminates human controls requirement for autonomous cars; DeepMind's AI helps historians reconstruct ancient texts; a snowboarder who built his own prosthetic leg; and more!

11 March 2022Issue #353

How to protect first CRISPR babies; our insect-based future; a robotic goat from Kawasaki; AI treats math problems as games and helps solve them; and more!

04 March 2022Issue #352

The case for analog computers for AI; too much bonding with robots can hurt teams; building neural networks with actual neurons; how drones disrupt modern warfare; and more!

25 February 2022Issue #351

UK lab connects brains with quantum computers; China is about to regulate AI; deep fake faces are more trustworthy; Baidu launches robotaxi services in six cities; and more!

18 February 2022Issue #350

What happens when your implants become obsolete and unsupported; DeepMind makes its AIs solve real-life problems; the quest for strawberry picking robot; and more!

11 February 2022Issue #349

Sony's AI masters Grand Turismo; why delivery drones failed; a brief history of biohacking; why bigger neural networks do better; and more!

04 February 2022Issue #348

AI solves Math Olympiad problems and does competitive programming challenges; the history of transhumanism; autonomous cars drift and go off-road; and more!

28 January 2022Issue #347

What can you do to slow down ageing; an AI that builds AIs; Meta's new supercomputer for AI research; UK revises laws around self-driving cars; robots learn how to hug; and more!

21 January 2022Issue #346

Billionaires bet on cell rejuvenation startups; how AI conquered poker; first felony charges in a fatal crash involving Autopilot; a robot learns to walk in Swiss mountains; and more!

14 January 2022Issue #345

Augmenting human potential and philosophical quagmires that comes with it; China's plan to become a leader in smart manufacturing; an industrial robot that reads your mind; and more!

07 January 2022Issue #344

Chile grants "neurorights" to its citizens; gene therapies for brain diseases; a drone with defibrillator saves a life in Sweden; a new cyborg eye brings superhuman vision closer to reality; and more!

31 December 2021Issue #343

AI prosecutor in China; how AI changes how we communicate with each other and a new warehouse robot from Boston Dynamics

24 December 2021Issue #342

Covid passport implant; brain cells in a dish learned to play Pong; reprogramming human cells; the future of military fighter drones; and more!

17 December 2021Issue #341

How Google designs chips with AI; human-like brain helps robot out of a maze; US rejects calls for regulating killer robots; and more!

10 December 2021Issue #340

DeepMind's answer to GPT-3; the most advanced human-shaped robot ever; a drone gets bird-like legs; AI training is outpacing Moore's Law; and more!

03 December 2021Issue #339

How AI can help tackle climate change; DeepMind takes on pure mathematics; xenobots can reproduce now; children in South Korea are preparing for future full of robots; and more!

26 November 2021Issue #338

OpenAI API is now available with no waitlist; order a designer baby; current state of lab-grown seafood; and more!

19 November 2021Issue #337

Real-world challenges for AGI; scientists reversed blindness with CRISPR; what neurons and snowflakes can teach us about AI; and more!

12 November 2021Issue #336

How can we resurrect all humans; DeepMind's first spin-off company; a new AI bigger and cheaper than GPT-3; robots are on the rise in the US; and more!

05 November 2021Issue #335

How DeepMind uses AI to accelerate scientific discovery; phage therapies and more precise CRISPR tools; GPT-3 is available on Azure; and more!

29 October 2021Issue #334

AI creates new scientific hypotheses; robotaxis and autonomous boats; gene therapies to end ageing; Spot learns to move like Jagger; and more!

22 October 2021Issue #333

Who wants to live forever; will AI transform religion; four success stories in gene editing; a robot with artificial muscles; a real-life cyborg with 50+ implants; and more!.

15 October 2021Issue #332

A shorter issue this week but we have a robot-dog with a gun strapped to its back, shooting for longevity and the stars, the cost of training AI is getting bigger and AI inner misalignment has been proven.

08 October 2021Issue #331

A brain implant helps cure depression and other future implants; an inconvenient truth about AI; CRISPR family tree holds a multitude of untapped tools; and more!

01 October 2021Issue #330

AI and music; DARPA SubT challenge results are in; how biology becomes engineering; Amazon shows a roaming robot for home; DeepMind predicts when and where it is going to rain; and more!

24 September 2021Issue #329

NASA checks if Spot can go to explore Mars; GitHub's Copilot generates code with bugs; bioengineering meets gaming PCs; how bringing dinosaurs back could look like; lab-grown coffee; and more!

17 September 2021Issue #328

A plan to resurrect woolly mammoths; a new armed robot from Israel; how human-machine teaming could look like; engineering living materials; and more!

10 September 2021Issue #327

Jeff Bezos funds a longevity company; new mini-CRISPR; Intel to launch robotaxis in Germany next year; the future of health and fitness; and more!

03 September 2021Issue #326

Made for work robot from Agility Robotics; CAD for genomes; mycelium-based packaging is coming; what is Biological Singularity; and more!

27 August 2021Issue #325

What is going on with Aubrey de Grey; a critique of Tesla Bot; behind the scenes at Boston Dynamics; 3d-bioprinted Wagyu beef; what happened to IBM Watson; and more!

20 August 2021Issue #324

Tesla is building a humanoid robot; Atlas shows new parkour skills; how AI landed a man in jail with scant evidence; how AI is being used in courts; programmable traps for viruses; and more!

13 August 2021Issue #323

OpenAI releases beta access to Codex; Xiaomi launches "open-source" CyberDog; Google plans to build superintelligent multipurpose AI; what bioengineering can do in space; and more!

06 August 2021Issue #322

How Covid-19 poked holes in AI; Amazon announces Genomics CLI; a universal switch for gene therapies; and more!

30 July 2021Issue #321

The possibility of gene doping; a bipedal robot completes 5K run; an AI for cheating in online shooters; a robot taught to insert USB stick; and more!

23 July 2021Issue #320

OpenAI disbands its robotics team; DeepMind puts entire human proteome online; how the latest neuroscience research can help create AGI; and more!

16 July 2021Issue #319

Open source protein-folding AIs; the designer babies are now commercially available; a fully robotic pizzeria in Paris; and intro to AI safety; and more!

09 July 2021Issue #318

How AI wolfs and sheep caused a massive debate in China; AI designs its own chips; killer robots are here; Spot dances to BTS song; and more!

02 July 2021Issue #317

US military is going to test anti-ageing pill next year; voice actors are concerned about AI; biohackers working on cheap insulin; Pepper the robot is in trouble; and more!

25 June 2021Issue #316

The quest to create brain-computer interfaces; the initiative to unify robots; rethinking biology as machine metaphor; an AI that turns brushstrokes into landscapes; and more!

18 June 2021Issue #315

The efforts to make text-based AIs less racist; a call to stop lethal autonomous weapons; Boston Dynamics' celebrates one year of Spot roaming in the wild; bacterias turning plastic into vanillin; and more!

11 June 2021Issue #314

MIT is building its own humanoid robot; DARPA is funding "living pharmacies"; open-source clone of GPT-3; unmanned drone refuelled a manned fighter jet; and more!

04 June 2021Issue #313

China's massive multi-modal AI; humans could live up to 150 years; the first case of an autonomous drone fighting humans; DNA as a data storage; and more!

28 May 2021Issue #312

Gene therapy partially restores a bling man's sight; the limit on lab-grown human embryos to be relaxed; Microsoft translates text into code; Germany says 'ja' for self-driving cars; and more!

21 May 2021Issue #311

Can machines control our brains; a reality check for AI; Waymo car gets confused and tries to run away; why robots are animals, not humans; and more!

14 May 2021Issue #310

Using young blood to reverse ageing; Pentagon inches towards letting AI control weapons; a new promising gene-editing tool; a brain implant translates thoughts of writing into text; and more!

07 May 2021Issue #309

AI that generates code; laser-equipped weed killing farming robot; how could we augment ourselves in the future; and more!

30 April 2021Issue #308

Self-driving cars to be allowed on UK roads this year; human augmentation is now necessary; AI chip big as your head; NYPD returns its robot dog; and more!

23 April 2021Issue #307

Post-human species; firefighters with exoskeletons; UK government intervenes in Nvidia-Arm deal; famous geneticist sells his DNA as NFT; and more!

16 April 2021Issue #306

First human trial of a wireless high-bandwidth BCI; a creation of part human, part monkey embryos; new legislation seeks to limit the use of AI in Europe; and more!

09 April 2021Issue #305

A monkey with Neuralink; GPT-3 generates over 4.5B words per day; Intel's hate speech filter for gamers; French army tests Spot; and more!

02 April 2021Issue #304

Boston Dynamics new robot and sneak-peek into their workshop; the current state of artificial wombs; how AI can help run governments; and more!

26 March 2021Issue #303

Methuselarity by 2035 and why will it be free; scientists made early human embryos from skin cells; why adversarial networks are a security threat to robots; and more!

19 March 2021Issue #302

How to defend yourself against Spot robots; there is a 50% chance that we will reach longevity escape velocity by 2036; how could we bring someone back to life; and more!

12 March 2021Issue #301

A call for the Neurological Bill of Rights; the AI alignment problem; drones vs moths; and more!

05 March 2021Issue #300

Prosthetic arms are not as cool as it seems; Google's project to enhance hearing; a call to ignore killer robot bans; bring back your dead with an AI; patients seem to be ok with robot doctors; and more!

26 February 2021Issue #299

Spot gets an arm and gets armed; a roadmap to Human Body 2.0; is Google's AI research about to implode; and more!

19 February 2021Issue #298

Meet the MetaHumans; Hyundai introduces two new robots; how teaching robots dance can make them better; a skeptical look at hype in biology; and more!

12 February 2021Issue #297

Deepfaking a human genome; cobalt-based quantum brain; drone swarms are getting too fast for humans; and more!

05 February 2021Issue #296

Updates from Neuralink; Spot gets new accessories; how AI will revolutionise games; a spinach that sends emails; and more!

29 January 2021Issue #295

AI resurrects a singer for a commercial; lab-grown wood; Spot is getting new accessories; GMOs might be permitted in the UK; and more!

22 January 2021Issue #294

A brain implant to fight depression; robots of the CES; a neural network that learns when it should not be trusted; and more!

15 January 2021Issue #293

How to teach a robot to dance; another misbehaving AI chatbot removed from the internet; robots made from ice; AI accelerated by light; and more!

08 January 2021Issue #292

State of the art in anti-ageing research; OpenAI's newest AI generates images from text; a look back to 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge; and more!

01 January 2021Issue #291

Dancing Boston Dynamics' robots; from bionic cows to bionic humans; a surprising connection between AI and human brains; and more!

25 December 2020Issue #290

DeepMind's new AI get closer to general-purpose AI; Microsoft's patent to create chatbots from anyone, including dead; a four-legged robot with wheels; and more!

18 December 2020Issue #289

What's next for Boston Dynamics; the AI girlfriend seducing lonely men in China; can we upload our minds; is DNA really like language; and more!

11 December 2020Issue #288

Hyundai to buy Boston Dynamics; mind-controlled beer pong; how to start a robot revolution; AI that makes pyjamas safe for work; and more!

04 December 2020Issue #287

DeepMind solves protein folding problem; highlights from Cybathlon; 3D engine in DNA; AI Incidents Database; and more!

27 November 2020Issue #286

The ethics of rebooting the dead; how biased AIs really are; BCI headset for AR/VR; why we need a robot registry; DNA synthesis generates true random numbers; and more!

20 November 2020Issue #285

Are we ready for true human diversity; China has caught up to US in AI; how to preserve the privacy of genomic data; FBI hires 140 robots for their new facility; and more!

13 November 2020Issue #284

Pope prays for AI and robots; Hyundai in talks to buy Boston Dynamics; living concrete; real-life Venom Snake's bionic arm; and more!

06 November 2020Issue #283

Virtual influencers are taking over; US city bans facial surveillance; Spot is getting its arm next year; slaughter-free meat farms on Mars; and more!

30 October 2020Issue #282

Spot explores Chernobyl; Yann LeCun on GPT-3; Apple learns the limits of robotics in manufacturing; and more!

23 October 2020Issue #281

DIY exoskeleton and prosthetic hand; the dangerous rise of military AI; Agility Robotics starts selling their humanoid robots; and more!

16 October 2020Issue #280

Can robots make us happier; how AI is accelerating battery development; open-source robotic leg; military cyber dogs; and more!

09 October 2020Issue #279

CRISPR wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; NVIDIA is building UK's fastest supercomputer; Toyota presents robotic butlers; why robots in care homes are inhuman; and more!

02 October 2020Issue #278

Ring's new flying home surveillance camera; how biotech can help with climate change; AI democratisation in the era of GPT-3; and more!

25 September 2020Issue #277

Microsoft gets exclusive licensing access to GPT-3; a robot beats world-class curling teams; a long-discussed legal question involving self-driving cars is answered; and more!

18 September 2020Issue #276

AI helps make chess beautiful again; a fighter pilot will dogfight an AI-controlled jet in 2024; a new report outlines path to human germline editing; and more!

11 September 2020Issue #275

A racing mech; unfair algorithms; memes and deepfakes; The Guardian publishes AI-generated article; and more!

04 September 2020Issue #274

Update on Neuralink's progress; how AI impacted Go community; OpenAI API preliminary pricing; DIY vaccines for COVID-19; and more!

28 August 2020Issue #273

AI wins against human pilot in a simulated dogfight; meet Peter the Human Cyborg; Waymo started testing driverless trucks; the rise of living robots and brain-like computers; and more!

21 August 2020Issue #272

Bomb-sniffing cyborg locust; a new type of batteries for robots; how a prosthetic leg is made; and more!

14 August 2020Issue #271

AI writes an essay about human intelligence; MKBHD meets Spot; jet fighter pilot is taking an AI pilot; how roboticists work from home; and more!

07 August 2020Issue #270

GPT-3 vs human brain; turning retired F-16s into drones; AI is also struggling to adjust to 2020; how Excel messes up with geneticist; and more!

31 July 2020Issue #269

Awesome GPT-3; the genetically engineered astronaut; a real-life Gundam takes its first step; and more!

24 July 2020Issue #268

A conference for virtual beings about virtual beings; AI learns to read from lips; two interestingly looking robots; and more!

17 July 2020Issue #267

Deepfaked student was used to attack activists; China’s massive effort to collect its people’s DNA concerns scientists; how an AI graphic designer convinced clients it was human; and more!

10 July 2020Issue #266

How to share the benefits of AI; Florida enacts DNA privacy law; a bionic bird; why it is still early days for AI; and more!

03 July 2020Issue #265

How to start a robot revolution; MIT deletes database that taught AI to be racists and sexist; an in-depth look at GPT-3; and more!

26 June 2020Issue #264

How facial recognition led to false arrest of a black man; an AI that makes realistic human faces; biohacker's quest to make a DIY Covid-19 vaccine; and more!

19 June 2020Issue #263

We can finally buy Boston Dynamics' Spot; a failed gene-editing experiment on human embryos; how life after AI could look like; and more!

12 June 2020Issue #262

OpenAI releases its first commercial product; DeepMind teaches AI to cooperate; what good can come out of the pandemic for bioscience; and more!

05 June 2020Issue #261

Microsoft replaces journalists with robots; OpenAI publishes GPT-3; the most terrifying thought experiment; and more!

29 May 2020Issue #260

Japan plans to have cyborgs and robotic avatars by 2050; China's latest new anchor is an AI; NVIDIA teaches AI to make Pac-Man; US Air Force to bring AI-powered jet drones in 2023; and more!

22 May 2020Issue #259

AI efficiency outpaces Moore's Law; Microsoft builds 5th most powerful computer for AI; the rogue experiments; dead robots; and more!

15 May 2020Issue #258

NVIDIA's new data centre GPU; the bitter lesson and the future of computation; an AI that can cry; and more!

08 May 2020Issue #257

OpenAIs' new AI makes music; how to become a centaur; how realistic are fictional robots; life as a digital being; and more!

01 May 2020Issue #256

How to reverse ageing; one-man's dream to turn a chicken into a dinosaur with genetic engineering; how the pandemic brings the delivery robots closer; and more!

24 April 2020Issue #255

Spot goes to hospitals; Zoox shares 1 hour fully autonomous ride around San Francisco; and more!

17 April 2020Issue #254

AI gets copyrights; the deep fakes arms race; anticipating automation and utopia; the connection between physics and deep learning; and more!

10 April 2020Issue #253

Adam Savage shows how Spot works; Sophia the Robot answers if AI is an existential threat to humans; how rejuvenation technology could help fight against COVID-19; and more!

03 April 2020Issue #252

DeepMind's new AI masters all 57 Atari 2600 games; a startup builds AI chips with real neurons; researchers "delete" memory from rats with CRISPR; and more!

27 March 2020Issue #251

DeepMind releases a documentary movie about AlphaGo; how robots are used to fight COVID-19; a musical robot that has a song on Spotify; and more!

20 March 2020Issue #250

What mind uploading has to do with the meaning of life; the complete guide to magnet implants; Sophia the robot tells what humans can learn from AI; coronavirus shuts down self-driving taxi services; and more!

13 March 2020Issue #249

A case for radically enhancing humanity; a blood-thirsty robot; how cheap DNA sequencing could accelerate genomics research; and more!

06 March 2020Issue #248

AI got involved in the fight against coronavirus; Boston Dynamics' robot works in a warehouse; a photo book of transhumanists; and more!

28 February 2020Issue #247

OpenAI performs surgery on a neural network; DARPA wants gamers' brainwaves to train military robots; Pentagon releases principles for AI in warfare; and more!

21 February 2020Issue #246

Hacking prosthesis to control a synthesiser; the messy story behind OpenAI; how AlphaStar became a StarCraft II Grandmaster; and more!

14 February 2020Issue #245

AI restores old videos; a new implant allows a blind woman to play video games; why transhumanism is the desirable next step in human evolution; and more!

07 February 2020Issue #244

Elon Musk teases Neuralink's "awesome" advancement; William Gibson's thoughts about "future fatigue"; Spot Mini to replace human on a construction site; Japan builds a giant Gundam robot; and more!

31 January 2020Issue #243

Boston Dynamics gets a new CEO and Adam Savage gets Spot Mini; CRISPR could fry all cancer using newly found T-Cell; AI epidemiologist was first to send warnings of the coronavirus; and more!

24 January 2020Issue #242

EU plans a ban on facial recognition tech in public; India is sending a humanoid robot into space; DeepMind's AI learns to fold proteins; why the public needs to be educated about anti-ageing research; and more!

17 January 2020Issue #241

Biorobots made from stem cells; is another AI winter coming; worm's life extended by 500%; how to measure AI; and more!

10 January 2020Issue #240

US limits exports of AI software; drones replace fireworks show; a table-waiting-cat-robot; bionic humans aren't science fiction; and more!

03 January 2020Issue #239

He Jiankui sentenced to jail for three years; apparently, there is a third genetically modified baby; robots learn to explain their actions; AI reads x-rays better than humans; and more!

27 December 2019Issue #238

How "ethical AI" was created; self-driving DeLorean learns to drift; how to live forever; and more!

20 December 2019Issue #237

Reaching escape velocity in longevity; AI Index Report 2019; how robots can become blacksmiths; and more!

13 December 2019Issue #236

Human vs AI in drone racing; the future of nanotechnology; NVIDIA makes 3D birds from 2D images; and more!

06 December 2019Issue #235

He Jiankui’s unpublished manuscripts describing the creation of the first gene-edited babies; China wants to make deepfakes illegal; how much data Knightscope robots collect; engineers building their own bionic legs; and more!

29 November 2019Issue #234

The Olympic games for cyborgs; Boston Dynamics' Spot joins the police; the next software revolution is bio; and more!

22 November 2019Issue #233

Designer babies and CRISPR's unwanted anniversary; how can AI aliens look like; goodbye, Cortana; how to recognise AI snake oil; and more!

15 November 2019Issue #232

Meet the transhumanists; AlphaStar vs a Grand Master player; robots enjoying autumn leaves; the first Gattaca-like baby tests are here; and more!

08 November 2019Issue #231

Amazon opens new robotics research centre; OpenAI fully releases their powerful text generator; the cost of CRISPR; and more!

01 November 2019Issue #230

AlphaStar gets better at StarCraft II than 99.8% of players; AI learns to smell; is CRISPR the next antibiotic; how to fool military AI; and more!

25 October 2019Issue #229

Is another CRISPR-Baby of the way; the controversy around OpenAI's Rubik's Cube solving robot; a new powerful gene-editing tool; and more!

18 October 2019Issue #228

OpenAI's robot solves Rubick's Cube one-handed; why AI thinks like a corporation; robots in space and in Walmart; open-source bio 3d printer; and more!

11 October 2019Issue #227

BBC talks about transhumanism; paralysed man walks using mind-controlled exoskeleton; tech startup that makes drone-killing drones; US bans Chinese AI companies; and more!

04 October 2019Issue #226

One biohacker's journey towards immortality; on AI community in Africa; Pope Francis warns about the wrong usage of AI; a robot with a light-based nervous system; and more!

27 September 2019Issue #225

You can order now Spot Mini; Atlas does parkour; is telepathy scientifically possible; "perfectly real" deepfakes are just 6-12 months away; and more!

20 September 2019Issue #224

OpenAI learns to play Hide and Seek; 18-year old builds a mind-controlled prosthetic; Russian space robot is sent back home; how a 15th-century manuscript keeps confounding AI; and more!

13 September 2019Issue #223

The tech to make people live forever; how to make robots not lost in underground tunnels; American truck drivers want to ban autonomous trucks; and more!

06 September 2019Issue #222

Biohackers implanted a tiny computer in the leg; Paperclip Maximizer explained; a conversation between Elon Musk and Jack Ma; and more!

30 August 2019Issue #221

DARPA sends robots underground; nanoparticles will give you night vision; why AI needs a body; Chinese firm clones a cat; and more!

23 August 2019Issue #220

DeepMind's co-founder placed on leave; China's plan to become CRISPR superpower; OpenAI releases more details on GPT-2; and more!

16 August 2019Issue #219

Crafty robots; AI looks for cancer; UPS uses driverless trucks; Chinese police robots; and more

09 August 2019Issue #218

China's AI ed-tech companies; DIY exoskeleton and prosthetic Nerf gun; what is anti-CRISPR; a robotic tail for humans; and more

02 August 2019Issue #217

A closer look at mind uploading; will AI kill us; can AI be recognised as inventor; first CRISPR study inside the body to start in US; the dawn of designer proteins; and more!

19 July 2019Issue #215

Elon Musk presents Neuralink; turning son into a cyborg; how synbio could wipe out humanity and how to stop it; restoring vision in humans and mice; and more!

19 July 2019Issue #216

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI; should robots look like humans; why an AI race between US and China is a bad idea; and more!

12 July 2019Issue #214

Plans for more CRISPR-modified babies; AlphaStar is getting unleashed to play StarCraft 2 against humans; AI vs humans in poker - 1:0; robotic pets; and more!

05 July 2019Issue #213

An introduction into biohacking; Waymo gets a green light in California; a robotic arm that tastes with bacterias; coming out as a transhuman; and more!

28 June 2019Issue #212

Biohackers trying to upgrade human body; why tech companies are snatching neuroscientists studying animal brains; the ongoing death of Jibo and its impact; Waymo teams up with Renault and Nissan

21 June 2019Issue #211

How deepfakes can be used in espionage; Boston Dynamics-like robot takes revenge in a fan film; robots and pizza; why robotics needs Amazon; and more!

14 June 2019Issue #210

DJI shows a battle robot; bionic showgirl shakes up cabaret; AI picks names for cats; and more!

07 June 2019Issue #209

DeepMind has beaten humans in Quake III; Amazon reveals the new delivery drone; why we should play god; Robert Downey Jr. wants to clean the world with robots; and more!

31 May 2019Issue #208

An open source four-legged robot; AGI has been delayed; self-driving delivery trucks and delivery robots; the race to build life from scratch; and more!

24 May 2019Issue #207

Celebrity biohacker is under investigation; a four-legged robot pulls an airplane; ectogenesis can be possible in a decade; AI fakes Joe Rogen voice; Sam Altman's message to potential OpenAI investors; and more!

17 May 2019Issue #206

San Francisco bans facial recognition; a very insightful interview with Geoffrey Hilton; Amazon gets one step closer to fully automated warehouses; and more!

10 May 2019Issue #205

A discussion about longevity; an AI that makes puns; looking into monkey's brain with AI; would cyborgs make better astronauts; and more!

02 May 2019Issue #204

How to become invisible to AI; Anki is shutting down; what is the meaning of life and what about transhumanism; drone delivers an organ for a transplant in the US; how to make CRISPR 50x more accurate; and more!

26 April 2019Issue #203

How to live longer; OpenAI crushes humans in Dota 2; the challenges of robotic farmers; why extended intelligence is the future; and more!

19 April 2019Issue #202

OpenAI beats pro gamers on a livestream; Boston Dynamics drops new video; how viable are giant robots in combat; AI invented a new sport; why futurism needs to get real; and more!

12 April 2019Issue #201

Google's AI ethics board is falling apart; Boston Dynamics is going into warehouses; modified monkeys with extra intelligence points

05 April 2019Issue #200

Finnish inmates train AIs; how AI is enhancing art; longevity as the biggest investment opportunity of all time; a robot proves it is not a robot; and more!

29 March 2019Issue #199

Boston Dynamics shows a new robot; how can we grow organs in the lab; trying to understand AI using psychology; the age of genetic wonder; and more!

22 March 2019Issue #198

This week - the story of DeepMind and its relationship with Google; our emotional relationship with robots; CRISPR-edited food comes to our plates; and more!

15 March 2019Issue #197

OpenAI shifts from nonprofit to ‘capped-profit’ to attract capital; AI is entering art galleries; drones in all shapes and forms; someone at Valve is working on brain-computer interfaces; and more!

08 March 2019Issue #196

The story of blood transfusing startup promising to stop ageing; one robot learned how to do backflips while another conquered the stairs; mice with infrared vision; the biggest AI risks; and more!

01 March 2019Issue #195

Boeing and Kalashnikov are showing military drones; the problem with China's CRISPR experiment; what the most valuable AI startups are working on; eight-letter DNA; and more!

22 February 2019Issue #194

OpenAI made a text generator so good it's considered too dangerous to release; the first female AI new anchor debuts in China; how we can improve deep learning; and more!

15 February 2019Issue #193

US launches American AI Initiative; a guy builds himself a prosthetic arm from Legos; Google and Microsoft warn about AI doing stupid things; UK plans to deploy drone swarm squadrons; and more!

09 February 2019Issue #192

People seem not to be scared by robots that much; a robot learns about itself; tiny robots; China's use of AI worries the "godfather" of deep learning; and more!

01 February 2019Issue #191

A man that plans to live to 180; AlphaStar follow-ups; how Rwanda's delivery drone works; genetically modified eggs with the anti-cancer drug; and more!

25 January 2019Issue #190

DeepMind's AI beats top pro StarCraft II players; Amazon rolls out delivery robots; Newark Airport was shut down due to a drone seen around the airport

18 January 2019Issue #189

A new method to understand AIs; a couple of robots that learned new tricks; the first human-pig hybrid has been created; US Navy would like to have more autonomous warships

11 January 2019Issue #188

UK vs drones; could we ever eat sunlight; World Bank says fears of a robot takeover are "unfounded"; Hyundai's walking car; and more!

04 January 2019Issue #187

A cafe in Tokyo staffed with robot-waiters controlled by paralyzed people; Prince Charles doesn't like the idea of people becoming ‘part human, part machine’

28 December 2018Issue #186

The aftermath of drone sightings at Gatwick Airport; can we gain new senses; training AI in Minecraft; on building trustworthy AI

21 December 2018Issue #185

Rogue drones shut down an airport in the UK; predictions for 2050; the possibilities of man-made DNA; designing the third thumb;

14 December 2018Issue #184

People don't like Waymo's cars; designer bugs; AlphaZero asserts its dominance in playing games; prosthetics; and more!

07 December 2018Issue #183

Meet the biohackers; CRISPR babies follow-ups; DeepMind's AI folds proteins; Waymo launches taxi services in Arizona; a cyborg plant; and more!

30 November 2018Issue #182

This week was mostly dominated by the news of the birth of the first genetically modified humans in China and how the world reacted. Other than that - you can add arms to SpotMini to make a robotic centaur; Uber's AI cracked games other AIs were failing at; how gene sequencing can predict your chances for success; hacking the world with digital biology; and more!

23 November 2018Issue #181

Mark Hamill's special message for kids with limb differences; one of the fathers of AI is worried about its future; designer babies, bioborgs and baselines; and more!

16 November 2018Issue #180

AI news anchor makes a debut; news on recent developments in researching military robots; alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips; and more!

09 November 2018Issue #179

An update on AI Winter; why we have an emotional connection to robots; an AI modelled after a worm's brain parks a robotic car; AI and politics; and more!

02 November 2018Issue #178

The science of ageing; AI generated portrait sold for $432,500; open source robotic cat; the results of Moral Machine experiment; designer babies are already here; and more!

26 October 2018Issue #177

How Sweden is becoming a nation of cyborgs; DeepMind imagines animals; xenobiology; an interview with veteran data scientist on AI, deep learning, fintech; and more!

19 October 2018Issue #176

Boston Dynamics' Spot inspects a building and then dances; Pepper the robot speak in UK Parliament; biologists grew a human retina in a dish; how genetic engineering affect space exploration

12 October 2018Issue #175

Boston Dynamics' Atlas does parkour; connecting human brains to play Tetris; can an AI be a person under the law; Japan set to allow gene editing in human embryos

05 October 2018Issue #174

Rethink Robotics shuts down; a robot installs a drywall; new robotics challenge from DARPA; cyborgs fighting for their rights through art; DIY sixth sense; the dangers of DNA testing; and more!

28 September 2018Issue #173

A cyborg artist; extreme biohacking; growing mini-brains in the lab; can Boston Dynamics sell their robots; why AIs have a problem with the real world and why do they learn to smell; and more!

21 September 2018Issue #172

Dalai Lama meets bionic girl; the case for radically enhancing humanity; do we really need BCIs?; building safe AI; how China aims to dominate robotics; and more!

14 September 2018Issue #171

The case for engineering ethical humans; brain-computer interfaces; DARPA invests $2B in AI; humans to drone race against AI; and more!

07 September 2018Issue #170

Apple’s self-driving car had an accident; no consensus on killer robots; first genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Africa; how we will benefit from sequences our genes; is AI the end of understanding in science

31 August 2018Issue #169

Gartner's Hype Cycle 2018; OpenAI reflects on DotA 2 championships; exoskeletons are going mainstream; the security problem in robotics; and more!

24 August 2018Issue #168

OpenAI faces the best players in Dota 2 championships; a drone saves swimmers in Spain; Kalashnikov showcases a mech robot;

17 August 2018Issue #167

Cloning dogs; rejuvenation is an industry now; how will the jobs of the future look like; DeepMind gets good at detecting eye diseases; and more!

10 August 2018Issue #166

OpenAI beats DotA; drone attack in Venezuela; Anki's new robot; exoskeletons at Ford factories; robots can manipulate our emotions; and more!

03 August 2018Issue #165

Mind-controlled third arm; cutting through AutoML hype; how Japanese see robots; dexterous robotic hands; and more!

28 July 2018Issue #164

DARPA wants AI to explain itself; Boston Dynamics prepares for mass production of robo-dogs; mini-heart in a jar; and more!

20 July 2018Issue #163

The debate on the future of human enhancement; the ethics of AI in warfare; tech leaders pledge not to build killer robots; and more!

13 July 2018Issue #162

Adding more senses to human body; MIT's robot Cheetah learned new tricks; a neural network coded using DNA; exoskeletons; and more!

06 July 2018Issue #161

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29 June 2018Issue #160

OpenAI bots play Dota 2; AI is as good as doctors; a documentary about bionics; end of the line for ASIMO; and more!

22 June 2018Issue #159

How Hugh Herr plans to connect robots to humans; biohacker won a legal battle to remain a cyborg; and more!

15 June 2018Issue #158

A Bitcoin millionaire builds a working Dr Octopus suit; can a robot be divine; AI sees through walls and predicts World Cup winner; and more!

08 June 2018Issue #157

Google to end partnerships with Pentagon and releases its AI principles; Norman, the psychopathic AI; building computers with living neurons; and more!

01 June 2018Issue #156

Report into Uber's fatal crash is out; exoskeleton for the elderly; Microsoft wants to fight AI bias with AI; Eric Schmidt says Elon Musk is wrong about AI; clean meat updates; and more!

25 May 2018Issue #155

The life of Aaron Traywick; Uber ends self-driving car program in Arizona; Google's quest to make you a cyborg; Microsoft's AI can also make phone calls; and more!

18 May 2018Issue #154

Spot Mini will be available next year; growing an ear on forearm; sending a robot for a graduation ceremony; safety in DIY biology movement; and more!

11 May 2018Issue #153

Google AI makes phone calls for you; is the future transhuman; Boston Dynamics robot gets some fresh air; extending lifespan of dogs before humans; and more!

04 May 2018Issue #152

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27 April 2018Issue #151

Amazon plans to release a home robot; Open Bionic releases a new prosthetic arm; the fable of the dragon-tyrant, animated; real-life Transformer; and more!

20 April 2018Issue #150

A robot assembled a chair from IKEA; how far are we from bionic humans; robotbees on Mars; UK report urges action to combat AI bias; and more!

13 April 2018Issue #149

France's plan to become an AI powerhouse; Europe wants to grant robots right but the experts say "don't do it"; Bill Gates' latter on genetic engineering; UN tries to define a "killer robot"; and more!

06 April 2018Issue #148

Radio-controlled cyborg mouse; Estonia wants to sequence DNA of its citizens; people don't like the idea of AI weapons; and more about AI, robots and merging humans with machines!

30 March 2018Issue #147

New robots from Festo; more about ethics and regulations around self-driving cars; a teen who built a prosthetic arm for his dad; and more!

23 March 2018Issue #146

Self-driving Uber car kills a pedestrian; Pentagon asks Silicon Valley giants for help; robot-bees patent by Walmart; and more!

16 March 2018Issue #145

Burger-flipping robot got fired; a case for human-chimp; a bionic girl comes to Xbox as an avatar; a robot-cat learns to walk; a mind-uploading startup that needs to kill you first; and more!

09 March 2018Issue #144

Alexa laughs; build your own Boston Dynamics robot; UK prepares for driverless cars; AI tricks human to see things in the pictures; and more!

02 March 2018Issue #143

Drones on the catwalk; Josiah Zayner regrets his stunts; China invests more in AI than US; lawyers vs AI - 0:1; and more!

23 February 2018Issue #142

AI as a weapon; hard life as a robot at Boston Dynamics; new applications of CRISPR; BBC document on the quest for immortality; quantum AI papers from Google; and more!

16 February 2018Issue #141

BodyHacking Con; cryonics myths; Boston Dynamics new robot; AI psychology; Intel's drone show in South Korea; Disney robots; and more!

09 February 2018Issue #140

AI myths; artificial worm balancing a pole; who gets access to advanced reproductive technologies; one lucky guy gets an advanced mind-controlled robotic arm; biopunks; and more!

02 February 2018Issue #139

Self-destructing GMOs; robotic swans in Singapore; how AI coded its AI child; AI recreates Leia's scene from Rogue One; and more!

26 January 2018Issue #138

Cloned monkeys; a response to a response to Slaughterbots; China has already gene-edited 86 people using CRISPR; how fast is AI progressing; and more!

19 January 2018Issue #137

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05 January 2018Issue #135

Sweden is not afraid of robots; brain implants; CIA's robotic dragonfly; predictions for 2018 and 2050; and more!

29 December 2017Issue #134

Biohackers genetically modifying themselves; response to Slaughterbots; first CRISPR clinical trial could begin in 2018; transhumanism and religions; sweating robots doing pushups and situps; and more!

22 December 2017Issue #133

A closer look at AlphaZero; how to write "programs" in bacterias; the gene patent question; and more!

15 December 2017Issue #132

Google's AI made a better AI than humans; a security robot was used to kick a homeless out; AI makes fake porn; and more!

08 December 2017Issue #131

AlphaZero masters chess in a couple of hours; DARPA funds gene drives research; AI makes black metal; and more!

01 December 2017Issue #130

Dancing with a robot; the impossibility of intelligence explosion; a story of a guy who tests gene engineering on himself; and more!

24 November 2017Issue #129

Atlas does backflips; a man injects himself an untested gene therapy; making AI explain themselves; fire alarm for AGI; banning the killer robots; and more!

17 November 2017Issue #128

Boston Dynamics shows a new robot; a campaign against killer robots; people are starting to be afraid of biohackers; and more!

10 November 2017Issue #127

Waymo put self-driving cars on the roads in Phoenix; genetically modified apples hit stores in US; how to cure ageing; and more!

03 November 2017Issue #126

Sophia the robot gets Saudi Arabia citizenship; a new neural network from the godfather of modern AI; why biological immortality is impossible; and more!

27 October 2017Issue #125

CRISPR 2.0; a vest that adds new senses; construction robots; why cryonics makes sense; the dark side of the Singularity; and more!

20 October 2017Issue #124

The giant robot battle; real-life cyborgs; DeepMind's new AI is better than AlphaGo; China’s AI Awakening; and more!

16 October 2017Issue #123

Facebook's bot loses its first battle in StarCraft; the giant robots duel is finally happening; self-driving mail trucks; and more!

06 October 2017Issue #122

DeepMind is getting serious about ethics; AI meets religion; beauty in transhuman future; how to turn your skin cells into stem cells; and more!

29 September 2017Issue #121

Bionic Miss America contestant; Bill Gates, Garry Kasparov and Richard Dawkins on AI; on lab-grown meat; biohackers; and more!

22 September 2017Issue #120

Connecting our brains to machines; the aftermath of the gaydar AI; a burger-flipping robot; and more!

15 September 2017Issue #119

DIY cyborgs; robot 'conductor'; biocomputers and bioethics; Facebook's AI learns how to react to human emotions; and more!

08 September 2017Issue #118

Vladimir Putin on AI; the ethics of human augmentation; how to regulate AI; robots tax could become a reality in San Francisco; on gene therapies; and more!

01 September 2017Issue #117

Self-driving lorries to be tested in the UK; Ford's autonomous car delivers Domino's pizza; bionic pop singer; hacking DNA to hack a computer; and more!

25 August 2017Issue #116

A call to ban killer robots; a song made by AI; how AI can enhance us; some perspective on OpenAI's Dota2 bot; and more!

18 August 2017Issue #115

OpenAI conquered Dota 2; Alexa controlled exoskeleton; DIY pharmaceuticals; Elon being Elon; and more!

11 August 2017Issue #114

Korea takes first step to introduce 'robot tax'; first genetically engineered salmon sold in Canada; a robot falls off the stage; and more!

04 August 2017Issue #113

A lot on AI; hopes and fears of artificial general intelligence; robots from Boston Dynamics on TED; Roborace; and more!

28 July 2017Issue #112

Elon Musk vs the world; an immortality as a chatbot; UK to bring in drone registration; first human embryos edited in US; and more!

20 July 2017Issue #111

AI creates fake Obama; Elon says AI is the greatest risk we face as a civilization; a security robot threw itself into a fountain; and more!

14 July 2017Issue #110

DeepMind teaches AI to walk; storing GIF in a living bacteria; neuroprosthetics' security concerns; AI that generates cats; and more!

07 July 2017Issue #109

The ethics of enhancing humans; why having a chip in a brain is inevitable and who is working on it right now; and more!

30 June 2017Issue #108

Cyborgs; sneak peek into Facebook bots language; Amazon's bee-hives for drones; biological teleportation machine; a DIY AI to sort LEGO pieces; and more!

23 June 2017Issue #107

Facebook's AI created a new language; Tom Scott and blocking people from our lives; a robot that teaches humans how to dance; and more!

16 June 2017Issue #106

Ethics of augmenting humans; new AIs trying to be better than Deepmind; neural implants and brainjacking; and more!

10 June 2017Issue #105

Softbank acquires Boston Dynamics and Schaft; Andrej Karpathy explains what AlphaGo really is; yet another creepy GAN generator; and more!

02 June 2017Issue #104

What's next for AlphaGo; when will human-level AI arrive, according to experts; dragonfly turned into a cyborg drone, and more!

26 May 2017Issue #103

AlphaGo beats the world best Go player; Google has an AI to make AIs; the problem of consciousness; 3D printing organs; should robot pay taxes, and more!

19 May 2017Issue #102

OpenAI announced a big research breakthrough in machine learning, a visit to MIT robotics lab, CRISPR, augmenting humans and more!

12 May 2017Issue #101

AI and consciousness, mind-reading AI, how VR can create a better humanity and more!

06 May 2017Issue #100

Cyborgs, discussions about gene editing and designer babies, cryonics and brain-computer interfaces and more!

28 April 2017Issue #99

a lamb in an artificial womb, cyborgs, Neuralink explained, another AI-powered time waster by Google and more!

21 April 2017Issue #98

Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on brain interface, the god in the machine, Russian gunslinging robot and more!

14 April 2017Issue #97

How close are we to melding mind and machine, AlphaGo's new challenge, AI figures out to read sentiment on its own, drone delivery in Switzerland and more!

07 April 2017Issue #96

Employees getting implanted with microchips, Google's new machine learning chips, rejuvenating mice, don't fear the AI and more!

31 March 2017Issue #95

Elon Musk founds Neuralink, on the quest to cure ageing and death, Uber has more problems with the self-driving cars, growing human heart cells on a spinach and more!

24 March 2017Issue #94

Jeff Bezos in a giant mech robot, upgrading human body, evolving AIs, Apple and augmented reality, and more!

17 March 2017Issue #93

On transhumanism and augmenting human body, bots learn to talk to each other in their own language, bionic ants, lab-grown chicken meat and more!

10 March 2017Issue #92

Meet a cyborg actress and archer, some articles about AI safety and the meaning of AI in general, traditional robots and one biological robot and more!

03 March 2017Issue #91

Boston Dynamics' new wheeled robot. On editing human genome. Roborace shows its autonomous racing car. Do robots deserve human rights, and more!

24 February 2017Issue #90

Who is allowed to use CRISPR, Chinese robots and AIs, hacking human brain, AI draws things with cats, while other steals code and more!

17 February 2017Issue #89

We must become cyborgs, says Elon Musk. AI learns to be aggressive while another AI learns from less data than deep learning AIs and more!

10 February 2017Issue #88

Intel's drone show at Super Bowl. How does the AI that learned how to play poker work. German government is warning biohackers and more!

03 February 2017Issue #87

Boston Dynamics shows a new robot. A bunch of great minds talk about superintelligence. A robotic coffee shop in San Francisco and more!

27 January 2017Issue #86

Elon Musk tweets and makes promises. Kristen Steward co-authors AI research paper. The first human-pig chimera. How to hack human body and more!

20 January 2017Issue #85

Facebook and mind reading. Moral machine. A philosophical thought that will doom you. AI that learns how to make AI. The problems of drone industry.

13 January 2017Issue #84

Google unleashed AlphaGo into the internet, two Google Homes talked to each other, EU is discussing robot laws, a guy tests gene therapy on himself and more!

06 January 2017Issue #83

Jason Silva talks about transhumanism, AI is taking the world and we should embrace it, the future of genetic engineering by George Church and more!

30 December 2016Issue #82

Brain-to-brain communication, Uber moves its fleet of self-driving cars to Arizona, a French woman wants to marry a robot, the ethics of biotechnology

23 December 2016Issue #81

Mark Zuckerberg shows his Jarvis. Hacking AI systems. Korean mech and a human flying drone. Holographic AI servant from Japan and more!

16 December 2016Issue #80

Uber puts self-driving cars on roads in San Francisco. Google's self-driving car division gets a new name. Amazon drone delivers the first package in the UK

09 December 2016Issue #79

Merging brains with machines. Extending life span and its impact on society. OpenAI and DeepMind release playgrounds for AIs. Microsoft shows a new chatbot.

02 December 2016Issue #78

Beautiful titanium prosthesis. Fei Fei Li and Demis Hassabis talk about AI and AIs that make songs. A desktop industrial robot. Cyborg beetles and more!

25 November 2016Issue #77

How is it to be a cyborg? AI experiments by Google. Google Translate develops its own internal language. The state of AI. Who controls the robots and more!

18 November 2016Issue #76

Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to preserve body. Flying an airplane using only a brain. CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time

11 November 2016Issue #75

Deepmind gets Starcraft to play with. Upgrading your body and connecting the brain with the computers. The lip-reading scene from HAL is now a reality.

04 November 2016Issue #74

Bionic artist and bionic humans. Google created AIs that can communicate secretly and how to understand AIs. Human-like robots from China and self-assembling origami robots.

28 October 2016Issue #73

A massive investment in the world’s first neural prosthetic for human intelligence enhancement, Chinese version of DARPA's Grand Challenge, MIT is ready for Halloween with a horror AI, the self-driving truck delivered a precious cargo of 50 000 beers and more!

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