Where I wandered Last Week is a compilation of the more interesting reading I have done last week.
World First Gene Editing Therapy Patient, a Baby
Incredible advances in science. A baby cured of an incurable disease with Gene Editing Therapy
AI Agent Automations
https://www.uipath.com/platform/agentic-automation
The world will have two types of businesses soon. The ones with AI integrated and the ones without AI
Waymo Recalls Software Due To Minor Collisions
Software recalls for hitting gates and fences
Humans don’t get recalls for drunk driving, accidents, deaths
The news often makes it sound so horrible that these self-driving cars are hitting gates, how dangerous. Ehhhhhh have you seen us humans drive?
Better Vision for Humanoid Robots
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/atlas-electric-humanoid-robot-lg-eyes
Security Guards
Distribution Centers
Inventory Stocking
Operating time = 4 to 10 hours (this will improve)
Charging time = 10 min to 3 hours
Human work Shift: 8 to 12 hours
Min 2 humans per shift, assuming no vacation, off time etc
Google Alpha Evolve Summary
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/
It creates programs that it evaluates through tests and then improves on them. So anything that it can measure, where the outcome can be clearly defined it excels at. For example math, hardware design, computing infrastructure. It already improved data center scheduling and Chip rewrites for example.
Institutions & Central Banks Are Adopting Crypto
https://cointelegraph.com/news/central-banks-smart-contract-tokenization-pilot-bis
OpenAI’s proposed DataCenter in Abu Dhabi will need 5 Nuclear Reactors of power
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/16/openais-planned-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-would-be-bigger-than-monaco/
Saudi Arabian Mining Company Signs Deal with MP Materials Corp
https://mpmaterials.com/news/maaden-and-mp-materials-collaborate-to-establish-full-value-chain-for-rare-earth-magnetics
Wood that is stronger than steel
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/inventwood-is-about-to-mass-produce-wood-thats-stronger-than-steel/
They are starting with the skin of the building hoping to eventually move into the entire structure
material that has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s 10 times better
AI Agent Adoption is already happening (use for tomorrow’s post)
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/tech-effect/ai-analytics/ai-agent-survey.html
AI Agents vs Agentic AI: A Conceptual Taxonomy
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10468
Netflix & Google brings AI Ads
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/brandcast-2025/
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-upfront-2025-the-center-of-attention
What Happens When You Put AIs into a Room?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu9368
They develop social conventions much like humans do
NVIDIA update to foundational model to help robots reason more like humans
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-powers-humanoid-robot-industry-with-cloud-to-robot-computing-platforms-for-physical-ai
The implications are clear, factory workers, manufacturers, you need to learn skills to work with robots
Manufacturing is coming back to the USA, but not in the way you think
Robots to help weeding farms better than humans
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ground-control-robot-insects
Robots are taking on security jobs
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/who-let-the-bots-out-robot-dogs-on-the-job
Patroling, detecting intruders, guiding the vision impaired
$2,700 cost
The can understand verbal commands like: “take me to the grocery store”.
AI is even competing with humans best friend
China could lose 120M jobs to $35K robots
https://www.journee-mondiale.com/en/chinas-robot-workforce-threatens-123-million-jobs-as-prices-drop-below-35000/
Replace China with USA
Replace 123M with 29.7M
Learn to interact with Voice controlled AI now. They are trained on the same models
In addition the amount or Robots china is building is wild.
We are approaching an insane world.
Azure AI Foundry Let’s Multiple Agents Work Together
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-ai-foundry-your-ai-app-and-agent-factory/
China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI Computing constellation in space
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-first-of-2800-satellites-for-ai-space-computing-constellation/
Doji lets users try on clothes with virtual avatars
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/doji-raises-14m-to-make-virtual-try-ons-fun-through-ai-avatars/
Malls, Stores
FutureHouse Automatic Science Discovery Models Are Attacking the Cure For Blindness
https://www.futurehouse.org/research-announcements/demonstrating-end-to-end-scientific-discovery-with-robin-a-multi-agent-system
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