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Your last-minute guide to Proposition 44: Health center spending
Proposition 44 asks voters to require federally funded community health centers to spend at least 90% of their total annual revenue on “program services advancing their charitable purpose.”
The two most interesting risks to Anthropic
Anthropic gave a 94-page list of risk factors in its S-1 this week. Two of them stood out.
SoCal artist says Trump administration used her fan art: 'I ... would never consent'
Devin Elle Kurtz soon took to social media saying: “I did not and would never consent to this administration running my fanart through AI and posting it.”
Measure LA could hasten the end of L.A.’s Public Works board
The five Public Works board members are appointed by the mayor and earn about $200,000 a year. They oversee more than 5,500 city employees working in sanitation, street repairs, sewer systems and more.
Election denialism is on the ballot in Arizona. Some are pushing back
Ordinary citizens across the country are participating in grassroots efforts to guard against possible election interference by the Trump administration.
Florida ACA insurance premiums jump again as residents plead for action
Open enrollment begins Sunday; customers and health advocates are pleading with those running for office to intervene with rising and, in some cases, unsustainable healthcare costs.
Midwestern retirees helped turn Florida red. Now they could turn it blue.
Like voters still in the Midwest, many Midwesterners who moved to Florida to retire in the sun are preparing to vote for Democrats on Nov. 3.
Nearly 2 out of 3 teens and tweens use AI chatbots, new research shows
Most kids say they use chatbots for help with homework and when they're stressed, lonely, or anxious. And how they use chatbots is tied to their mental health.
Israel is in a political deadlock. What comes next?
Israel's consequential election has ended in a deadlock, with neither side able to claim a majority, What happens now?
How powerful is Elon Musk? How his political influence compares to past U.S. moguls
Critics say the tech entrepreneur's enormous wealth has given him too much political power. But when stacked up against other notable American moguls, historians say he's not unique.
Budget review: Business rates reform must back investment as well as tackle avoidance
The Budget leaves landlords waiting for stronger incentives to improve commercial buildings
'Now is the time': Bennington business owners push for first-ever downtown business improvement district
Three Bennington business owners are pushing to create the town's first Business Improvement District to reshape and revitalize downtown.
Three customers suffer chemical burns after cleaning solution mistakenly used in drinks, health officials say
Three customers at a Western North Carolina Chili's Grill & Bar experienced chemical burns after cleaning solution was mistakenly added to drinks, health officials report.
Andy Jassy’s prediction: Amazon could have two $1 trillion businesses within a decade
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS and the company's stores business could each reach $1 trillion in annual revenue in the next five to 10 years, something no business has ever done. AWS is at a $184 billion annual run rate, and Jassy expects it to grow more than 40% in both 2027 and 2028.
Will Abbott’s School Choice Push Come Back to Bite Him?
Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa is looking to use Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s all-out push for school choice against him at the polls. Will it work?
Finally, a Chance to Stem the Torrent of Corporate Money in Politics
Montana is in the forefront of a movement to use state powers to fix the problem unleashed by the Supreme Court.
SLO County Public Health shares pumpkin safety tips ahead of Halloween
Brookshire Farms is closed after health officials found a potential link between the pumpkin patch and an E. coli outbreak. The exact source is unconfirmed, but officials shared pumpkin-handling tips.
Ramaswamy pulls down controversial ad after mass backlash
Vivek Ramaswamy has pulled down his controversial advertisement featuring Democrat Dr. Amy Acton's estranged mother, one that had received bipartisan backlash for the past week.
Memorial Health System awaiting $80 million as payment delays slow hospital project
MARIETTA — Memorial Health System is awaiting about $80 million in anticipated Medicaid payments, a delay President and CEO Scott Cantley said is straining hospital operations and slowing financing for its women’s and children’s hospital project. Cantley said the outstanding payments include about $60 million through the Rural Ohio Hospital Tax Pilot Program for 2025 […]
Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn 'tens of billions of dollars'
The success of blockbuster hits like Project Hail Mary and Verity is only part of the story, Amazon's CEO says.
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
Controversial attack ad featuring Democrat’s estranged mother has run its course in Ohio
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says his campaign is pulling its controversial attack ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton
Cardinals RB Jeremiyah Love, WR Michael Wilson remain limited Thursday
Cardinals rookie running back Jeremiyah Love was limited again Thursday.
VA deploys new electronic health record system across southern Ohio, aims for all 170 sites by 2031
More than 107,000 veterans and 7,200 clinicians in the region will benefit as the VA accelerates its push to modernize medical records at every facility nationwide.
Money is pouring into San Diego politics. Where is it coming from?
Here's a look at the top spenders in the region, and where they got their money.
Netanyahu alleges stolen election as he seeks political survival amid uncertainty
Accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Tuesday’s election was “stolen by Arab parties,” and an official investigation into the matter, have cast a shadow over the vote.
Amazon says 2027 AI spending will exceed this year's $220 billion
Amazon will spend meaningfully more than $220 billion on AI infrastructure in 2027 even as free cash flow sinks.
Elke Sommer dead: German-born star of ‘A Shot in the Dark’ was 85
Elke Sommer, the German actor known for her roles in 1960s Hollywood comedies and espionage films, has died at 85.
Amazon cloud business accelerates but shares drop on profit miss
Amazon shares fell more than seven percent in after-hours trading Thursday following a quarterly earnings report that missed analyst expectations on profit and total revenue but showed strong growth in the company's AWS cloud business.The miss came as investors were already rattled by Google's own lower-than-expected profits on a slowdown in advertising and big spending on AI. Shares in Google-parent Alphabet dropped more than 10 percent after market close on Wednesday and closed down more than
Patrick Stewart tributes: Hugh Jackman, Jonathan Frakes honor star
Following the death of 'Star Trek' and 'X-men' actor Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Kevin Feige, Jonathan Frakes, Bryan Batt and more are memorializing the acclaimed actor.
Health Brief: Medicaid decision gives ‘frail’ Americans some relief from work rules
Plus: Political ties can hurt nursing home care, report shows
Deepwater's Gene Munster talks how personal AI bots are impacting Amazon's business
Gene Munster, Deepwater Asset Management, joins 'Fast Money' to talk Amazon's Q3 struggles and what he suspects is weighing on the retail side of the company.
Amazon earnings fall short as retail revenue lags
Amazon missed earnings estimates on Thursday, as less-than-impressive sales growth in its retail division undermined strong cloud-computing revenue. Though the bulk of Amazon’s $201.9 billion revenue from July through September
No Concessions to Hackers in UNM Health Center Attack
Health system officials said the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has not made any concessions to bad actors, who “did not penetrate core systems or servers.”
Schlegel receives Distinguished Animal Science Alumnus Award
The Department of Animal Science in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences recently presented Michael Schlegel, of Wildwood, Missouri, with the 2026 Distinguished Animal Science Alumnus Award.
DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion
DoorDash announced Thursday it will buy rival Instacart for $17 billion in a deal that the company says will help local businesses compete with delivery giants such as Amazon and
California Science Center and NASA JPL Unveil Space Gallery
Historic planetary rovers, lunar probes, and interactive robotics exhibits will welcome visitors to the new Los Angeles aerospace facility in late 2026.
UK accuses pharmacy giant CVS Health of racketeering, fraud in federal lawsuit
The university health care system alleges the company secretly diverted more than $41 million from hospitals in Lexington and Ashland.
What killed 500-plus penguins? How scientists solved the mystery
The penguins that perished lived on the Danger Islands in Antarctica. The prime suspect was avian flu. Researchers were surprised by what they found.
What killed 500-plus penguins? How scientists solved the mystery
The penguins that perished lived on the Danger Islands in Antarctica. The prime suspect was avian flu. Researchers were surprised by what they found.
Fall 2026 Credo Awards announced
Established in 2008, the Credo Award recognizes individuals who consistently demonstrate exceptional credo behavior by making those they serve their highest priority, having a sense of ownership, conducting themselves professionally, respecting privacy and confidentiality, communicating effectively, and exhibiting commitment to their colleagues. The Fall 2026 Credo Award winners are: Shannon Blaisdell, DNP, MSN, RN, Associate Nursing Officer, Inpatient Obstetrics and IV Team, Vanderbilt University Hospital Sara Hanai, MS, Director, Junior League Family Resource Center, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Kelly Harper, Research Program Manager, Neuro-Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology The Credo Award recognition is announced quarterly through the Vanderbilt Health Hub. A total of 12 winners will be recognized each year. Each winner is honored with an award video, a profile article in VUMC Voice following the award announcement, and recognition during the biannual Leadership Forum. View the Fall 2026 Credo Award videos. If you are a Vanderbilt Health employee, you can nominate a colleague, leader or team for a Credo Award, C. Wright Pinson Leader Award, or Vanderbilt Health Team Award. Visit the Awards and Nominations SharePoint site to fill out a nomination form. Employees demonstrate credo behaviors when: they make those they serve the highest priority; respect privacy and confidentiality; communicate effectively; conduct themselves professionally; have a sense of ownership; and are committed to their colleagues. Award nominations are accepted year-round. If a nomination is received after the cutoff for an award selection period, the nomination will be considered for the next period.
DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion
The app-based delivery service DoorDash announced a definitive agreement to acquire rival Instacart for a price of $65 per Instacart share.
THE CASTAWAYS FACE A DAUNTING RITE OF PASSAGE THAT HARKENS ALL THE WAY BACK TO SEASON ONE, ON “SURVIVOR,” WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4
“The Girl at the Prom” – It’s time to “Drop Your Buffs!” The castaways face a daunting rite of passage that harkens all the way back to season
At least 2 cases of mpox confirmed in Stanislaus County, health officials say
At least two cases of mpox, formerly known as monkey pox, have been confirmed in Stanislaus County, according to health officials.
Which State Majorities Will Fall?
Only 15 of 99 state legislative chambers are considered competitive this year. But a change in some of those will make a big difference.
'Nocturne' star Liev Schreiber apologizes for berating reporter
Liev Schreiber owns up to his intense behavior at the 'Nocturne' premiere, apologizing for scolding a red carpet reporter.
Arts and Entertainment Agenda, Oct. 29 to Nov. 5
‘Día de los Muertos,’ Oct. 7 to 31 Celebrate “Dia de los Muertos” with a vibrant three-course meal, available through Oct. 31 at Toro inside the Viceroy Snowmass, 130 Wood Rd. Led by chef Richard,...
UCSB computer science department now offers new artificial intelligence major
For the first time, UC Santa Barbara students will be able to make artificial intelligence the focus of their undergraduate experience. As of this quarter, the UCSB computer science (CS) department has launched a new undergraduate major in artificial intelligence (AI).
Hollywood Marketing Leaders Convene for Candid Talk About the Future
Top Hollywood film and TV leaders gathered Oct. 22 for an intimate dinner and candid conversation about the future of entertainment marketing at a gathering moderated in partnership with Amazon Ads an...
Hollywood Marketing Leaders Convene for Candid Talk About the Future
Top marketing executives gathered Oct. 22 in West Hollywood for the Future of Entertainment Marketing dinner hosted by Amazon Ads and Variety.
Amazon launches the Echo Show 16, Echo Time, Alexa Photo Frame, and new Echo speakers
All of them come with Alexa+, which is free for Prime members. Amazon has refreshed its Alexa hardware lineup with five new devices: the redesigned Echo...
Cardiovascular programs at Vanderbilt Health recognized among nation’s best
Vanderbilt Health has been named as one of the nation’s top hospitals and health systems with great heart programs by Becker’s Hospital Review.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
An undisputed leader of the Mexican left, Cárdenas was the son of one of the country’s most popular presidents — Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas. He was respected by allies and critics alike.
MEGAMicrobe event brings students into the wonderful world of microbes
MEGAMicrobe, a free community event held Oct. 24, introduced young students and their families to the wonderful world of microbes.
Entertainment this week: Halloween events, Warren Miller film and more
Friday, October 30 Dia De Los Muertos – 4-7 p.m., Community Arts Center Auditorium, 10046 Church St. For more information, visit https://www.townoftruckee.gov/calendar.aspx?EID=1902. The Funk Hunters w/ Rambo Party (Creeper’s Ball- N1) – 9 p.m., 14...
Noah Kahan bringing 'The Last of the Bugs' World Tour to Ohio
Kahan will perform on June 5, 2027, at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. Tickets range from $59.95 to $399.95, plus fees.
Alaska governor orders investigation into ‘Dan Sullivan’ ballot controversy
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy ordered an investigation into claims Democrats recruited a namesake candidate in a key Senate race. (
U.S. economy grew at a fast clip in 3rd quarter, thanks to consumer spending
The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4 percent.
DoorDash plans to buy Instacart for $17 billion
The $17 billion deal will give DoorDash a leg up over Uber and Amazon in the world of grocery delivery.
Richard Clode: That cloud business is incredibly strong
Richard Clode, Technology Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson Investors, discusses Alphabet's mixed earnings, AI spending, cloud growth, Amazon's outlook and software stock volatility.
Street artist Barry McGee brings color and community to Jeffrey Deitch
Barry McGee, the celebrated graffiti artist who caused an uproar when his pop-up installation at a 99 Cents Only Store on Wilshire Boulevard drew a wild crowd, is bringing his street art to Jeffrey Deitch gallery.
'Music Man' review: Revival isn't up to CTG standards
A non-Equity national tour of Meredith Willson's 'The Music Man,' directed by Matt Lenz, opens at the Ahmanson Theatre.
How Ireland became Hollywood's latest hub for global filming
Ireland, with its storytelling tradition, infrastructure, experienced crews, lower labor costs and competitive tax incentives, has become a major filming destination for American films, TV series and even game shows as movie and TV productions leave Los Angeles to film elsewhere.
Virgin Galactic unveils new rocket plane to restart space tourism
Tustin-based Virgin Galactic moved its first six-passenger Delta-class ship to New Mexico for months of testing, hoping to revive space tourism after retiring its previous plane in 2024.
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
Like 'The Matrix,' but real: Google's Genie 4 brings science fiction to life
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Good reasons, bad politics surrounding third Trump impeachment
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Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment
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Alameda Road project has small businesses asking customers to stick with them through construction
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Taraji P. Henson To Star In 'Whiskey Matriarch' Amazon Series
Taraji P. Henson is set to star in and exec produce 'Whiskey Matriarch,' a new series that landed at Amazon in a competitive sale.
Fatal Detroit stabbing exposes gaps in court-ordered mental health treatment
Mental health providers throughout Wayne County failed to file required outpatient treatment plans with the court 66% of the time last year, a 7 News Detroit investigation has revealed.
Winter 2026 Sports parking information announced
Transportation Services is sharing parking information for winter athletic events.
UNM Health Center Reopens to Patients After Cyber Event
After a “cybersecurity event” Monday shuttered the system of the state’s only Level 1 trauma center, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has resumed operations.
How Mackenzie Crook's 'Small Prophets' used stop-motion
Mackenzie Crook and his collaborators spoke about creating a series that meditates on grief and loss while being funny — and including some fantastical elements.
Discover the science behind nuclear energy at hands-on INL event
IDAHO FALLS — Idaho National Lab is inviting students of all ages and their families to a nuclear science night. It’s happening Wednesday at the INL Meeting Center, 775 MK Simpson Blvd., in Idaho Falls, according to a news release from the INL. It’s open to the first 350 people to register. The annual hands-on […]
From Ann Richards to Gina Hinojosa: What has — and hasn’t — changed for women in Texas politics
Only two women have been elected governor of the Lone Star State. Could that be about to change?
Disney's theme parks division lays off at least 100 employees
The layoffs affect the experiences division, which includes Disney's theme parks, cruise line and Aulani resort and spa in Hawaii.
MSG Sports, Entertainment Giant Pays $11 Million to Four Lawyers
James Dolan’s sports and media empire saw four in-house lawyers earn almost $11.1 million in total compensation this year, one in which his NBA champion New York Knicks now stand apart from the billionaire’s other assets.
The Jupiter Ball Returns to Morehead Planetarium and Science Center this November
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is pleased to announce the return of the Jupiter Ball. The signature Chapel Hill gala revives a proud 25-year history to benefit the "Science for All" initiative with a premier evening of celebration and philanthropy.
RFK Jr. plans to make these 6 unapproved peptides available for temporary sale
The Trump administration published a draft policy for widening access to controversial peptides while federal officials continue to hammer out permanent rules for the products.
Curveballs & Confections; The science behind stadium sweets
Food Scientist Abby Thiel shares some of the science behind some of our favorite baseball candies! youtube.com/@AbbeytheFoodScientist Candy Science Coloring Book: amazon.com/dp/B0FGJWXGHD
New MEF Report: Bombs Have Weakened the Iranian Regime, but Only Politics Can Replace It
Seth D. Kaplan Maps a Path to Replacing the Islamic Republic with a Stable, Democratic, and Internationally Integrated Iranian State.
Vote posters glued to buildings leave Virginia business owners with cleanup bill
Large posters urging people to vote were glued to Henrico and Richmond buildings, prompting vandalism complaints and a police investigation.
Georgia's Keisha Lance Bottoms navigates the challenges of Black women battling political barriers
Georgia Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is trying to make history as the first Black woman to be elected governor in the United States
Dolores Huerta death: Chicana activist icon
The emotional compass of the United Farm Workers of America for decades, Huerta attained singular stature as godmother of the Chicano power movement and doyenne of American labor.
Verisk adds insurance data to Microsoft, Amazon AI platforms
Verisk said Wednesday it is expanding access to its insurance data through new integrations with Microsoft Copilot and Amazon Quick and adding more data resources to Anthropic’s Claude.
