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The largest fusion power purchase agreement ever ??🔜🤖 Google just procured 200MW of clean power directly from Commonwealth Fusion’s first commercial plant in Virginia, with an option to buy more. From science to engineering to mass manufacturing, Commonwealth is leading the https://t.co/xt5NIdaG8y

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America’s Shrinking Blue Balls in Economic Spacetime There has been a recent and unprecedented shift in America's most valuable companies to young, West-coast, tech companies. MIT’s Andrew McAfee has a new way to visualize the dynamics of the tectonic shift. Each graph plots https://t.co/SCTjOtqfV6

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We just closed Future Ventures Fund IV for entrepreneurs building a better future! 🎉 today: https://t.co/wr4UelOA9K https://t.co/cgY20cJCjy

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The beauty of inner Earth’s bounty 🔮 While crystals lack any healing or magical properties, they are marvelous materials formed by myriad methods over millennia. I just started a small collection: 1) Blue fluorite is a rare, vibrant variety of CaF? that forms in https://t.co/0Qe8hI2osb

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When an ancient animal becomes an iridescent gemstone. This cephalopod from the Late Cretaceous (71M yo in Canada) sports a row of black circular bite holes from a mosasaur — a sea predator. The big Ammonite behind me fell prey to an even larger beast in the red seas of yore. https://t.co/RZt1v35Uci

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Imagine a world without glyphosates or chemical poisons sprayed on your food. Greenlight uses a rifle shot of dsRNA, unique to the pest. It's the first novel mode of action in 30 years and overcomes the pest resistance costing U.S. farmers $10B/yr. News: https://t.co/hEZ5kipI8x https://t.co/OLBBHo46gt

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Deep Space 🧬 I just obtained a bit of the Bennu/Ryugu asteroid family, brought to Earth as a fresh meteorite. OC 002 was found in Morocco in 2024, the purest find yet of an incredibly rare category of carbonaceous chondrite (CI1), the most primitive material that best resembles https://t.co/d4agDJbxAA

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Humans have tried twice to ghost-write a book by me, integrating 20 years of my online blog posts. One of them was a former editor of Scientific American. One was an Estonian journalist. Both gave up. With long-context window LLMs, it should be possible to use my writings as https://t.co/ugiCuCBxAS

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Super Founders 📕 summary If a founder has prior experience of being a successful founder, their next startup has an 8x higher chance of becoming a unicorn. “This was the strongest difference I observed in my data between the billion-dollar and the random group.” — author Ali https://t.co/GiszaV2rLu

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A Psychedelic Revival 🍄 of science. 281 clinical trials are underway, a new high, targeting an expanding range of therapeutic areas. 70% are psilocybin, followed by LSD and novel compounds. I’ll be discussing the research renaissance with Gul Dolen and Rick Doblin at SynBioBeta. https://t.co/8jK4mWkImc

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Found in the French Quarter, New Orleans 🇫🇷 - Napoleon's face, taken with plaster just after he died, and then cast in bronze. Unlike the puffy paintings of yore, he seems more chiseled and masculine in person. - snuff box automata (bird is the size of a vitamin) - bigger jam box https://t.co/Ngiytfvl9U

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🔵 As we deploy better space-based instruments, we expand our ability to detect the biosignatures of life on distant exoplanets. Today's results are the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system. Cambridge just published a new discovery https://t.co/VR4fhxNDyI

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Evo on Mars 🔴 Generative AI will generate new life. Biology will shift from discovery to design. — Stanford's Eric Nguyen at TED 2025 The FDA recently approved the first gene therapy, and over 500 are now awaiting approval. Is DNA all you need? Evo is the first AI model https://t.co/ctxk1y3qsP

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A staggering 60% of Kenya's GDP flows through M-PESA, the country's dominant mobile payment system. And it's 30% in other African nations. CEO @Sitoyo Lopokoiyit is wearing their new Braille watch, giving mobile banking access to 6 million vision-impaired. From the TED front row https://t.co/ow9JfXKWuV

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The TED 2025 Closing Party was out of this world https://t.co/7SZlBPOwGZ

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More photos from the front row: Eric Schmidt at TED 2025. “AI is Underhyped” “The real limit to AI is its energy needs. The U.S. needs 90 GW of additional power. That’s 90 nuclear power plants, and we are building none. Each data center needs the power of a city.” “To invent https://t.co/Mrjt6PdhDo

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Sam Altman at TED today OpenAI’s user base doubled in just the past few weeks (an accidental disclosure on stage). “10% of the world now uses our systems a lot.” Reflecting on the life ahead for his newborn: “My kids will never be smarter than AI.” Reaction to DeepSeek: “We https://t.co/t3mM4IIOiv

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Bastrop Texas is proposing a ban on cruelty-free meat and any future cellular competition in protein production. It’s surreal that a town known for its embrace of the future would be so retrograde on the inevitable future of meat manufacturing. Rather than shelter factory farms https://t.co/rbWjuJarrN

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It’s time for TED It’s my 23rd TED. Twice as a speaker. So many memories. First time for Genevieve’s parents. Let the show begin! https://t.co/G7wOqaKadV

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🧬 The Breakthrough Prize ceremony is like the Academy Awards of Science, with the largest cash prizes for math and science set in a red carpet Hollywood experience, a mashup of geek chic. Delighted to see David Baker (Institute of Protein Design) among this year's awardees. https://t.co/Ann8vmnI3x

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