DTN 024: Supercomputer Will Help Decide Whether to Block the Sun
DTN 024: Supercomputer Will Help Decide Whether to Block the Sun
Plus: Collecting sperm from the dead, SuperAlignment, fusion for interstellar spaceflight, an AI accomplice in plot to kill the Queen of England, and more.
Welcome to The Deep Tech Newsletter, a weekly exploration of the business, science, and engineering behind the world’s most important frontier technologies.
The Big Picture
Supercomputer Will Help Decide Whether to Block the Sun
“A new supercomputer for climate research will help scientists study the effects of solar geoengineering, a controversial idea for cooling the planet by redirecting the sun's rays. The machine, named Derecho, began operating this month at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and will allow scientists to run more detailed weather models for research on how human-made aerosols, which can be used to deflect sunlight, could affect rainfall patterns.” (Scientific American)
Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform the way science gets done
“If we play our cards right, with sensible regulation and proper support for innovative uses of AI to address science’s most pressing issues, AI can rewrite the scientific process. We can build a future where AI-powered tools will both save us from mindless and time-consuming labor and also lead us to creative inventions and discoveries, encouraging breakthroughs that would otherwise take decades. At its core, the scientific process we all learned in elementary school will remain the same: conduct background research, identify a hypothesis, test it through experimentation, analyze the collected data, and reach a conclusion. But AI has the potential to revolutionize how each of these components looks in the future.” (MIT Technology Review)
Deep Tech: The New Wave
“Mexico and its Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) peers can harbor higher hopes when it comes to deep tech, a new report posits. Titled “Deep Tech: The New Wave” and created in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank’s innovation laboratory (IDB Lab), the report concludes that there is room for a twentyfold increase in VC investment into LAC deep tech startups over the next decade. Venture capital investment into LAC deep tech represents a small share of overall VC dealmaking in the region. However, it is on the rise, both in absolute numbers and proportionally, growing from $96 million (0.59%) in 2020 to $172 million (2.2%) in 2022.” (TechCrunch)
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Deep Tech News
DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pathogens
Robotaxi haters in San Francisco are disabling the AVs with traffic cones
Pulsar Fusion wants to use nuclear fusion to make interstellar space travel a reality
AI Chatbot Allegedly Backed Man's Plan to Kill Queen Elizabeth II
Crypto News
Peer Review
Researchers induce cancer cells to 'commit suicide' with a self-produced bacterial toxin
Researchers grow bio-inspired polymer brains for artificial neural networks
Superconducting nanowire camera will explore brain cells, space
The future of recycling could one day mean dissolving plastic with electricity
How splitting sound might lead to a new kind of quantum computer
Researchers demonstrate first visible wavelength femtosecond fiber laser
Funding x M&A
Celestial AI raises $100M to expand Photonic Fabric technology platform
Aito raises $6.5M to make finger-sensing and haptics for laptops
In-space propulsion developer Benchmark Space Systems closes $33M in new funding
Nikola Snags $42M From California To Build Hydrogen Truck Stations
Chinese stationary li-ion manufacturer Hithium closes $622M funding round
Japanese robotics startup Telexistence raised a $170M Series B
Clinical-stage biotech K36 Therapeutics raised a $70M Series B
Immersive Fox, a startup specializing in AI-generated videos, raised a $3.6M seed
B Garage, a startup building autonomous drones to track warehouse inventory, raised a $20M Series A
Low-carbon cement startup Material Evolution raised a $19M Series A
Miscellanea
Science Reveals How to Roll the Perfect Joint / Let People Collect Sperm From the Dead / Why is desalination so difficult? / The Internet Archive has Lego set instructions / U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal / Openworm – a biological simulation of a worm with 302 neurons / The Lawlessness of Large Numbers / Raytheon asks retirees for help making new Stinger anti-air missiles / 3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi / California’s electricity duck curve is deepening / US Military Is Training AI to Give Orders and Handle State Secrets
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