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Why Hollywood Is Facing a Very Unhappy Ending

Layoffs, consolidation, streaming losses, artificial intelligence and the rise of the creator economy are reshaping Hollywood, raising questions about whether the industry is just hitting a rough patch or in terminal decline.

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Orbital Arcologies: Mega-Cities in Space

From O’Neill cylinders to spiral habitats, discover how humanity might build colossal, interconnected cities high above Earth.

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Chapters.
0:00 Intro — The Conductor’s Tale.
4:43 Why Megacities in Space?
6:02 The Four Foundational Assumptions of Space Habitat Design.
10:11 Flawed Assumptions & Specialized Habitats.
11:28 The Urban Web – Tethered Transit and Megacity Growth.
17:14 Nebula.
18:24 Spiral Habitats – A Rolled-Up City in Space.
20:19 Density and Design – Population Scaling.
23:17 Green Limits – CO₂, Heat, and Living Space.
26:08 The Future of Orbital Urbanization – Terran Swarms and Beyond.

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From guesswork to guidance: How machine learning speeds dopant design for water-splitting photocatalysts

MLIP calculations successfully identify suitable dopants for a novel photocatalytic material, report researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo. As demonstrated in their study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a materials informatics approach could predict which ions can be stably introduced into orthorhombic Sn3O4, a promising and recently discovered photocatalytic tin oxide.

Their experiments revealed that aluminum-doped samples achieved 16 times greater hydrogen production than the undoped material, paving the way for next-generation clean energy applications.

Building a sustainable hydrogen economy requires clean and efficient ways to produce hydrogen at scale. One particularly attractive approach is photocatalysis—using materials called photocatalysts to split water into hydrogen and oxygen utilizing sunlight.

AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure

The temptation is to treat Moltbook-like systems as harmless curiosities, a kind of accelerated chatroom in which agents talk, play, and occasionally generate entertaining artifacts. That framing is historically consistent with how societies first encountered earlier general-purpose technologies. It is also a mistake. Over time, social networks for AI could come to function as unsupervised training grounds, coordination substrates, and selection environments. AI agents could amplify capabilities through mutual tutoring, tool sharing, and rapid iterative refinement. They could also amplify risks through emergent collusion, deception, and the creation of machine-native memes optimized not for human comprehension but for agent persuasion and control. Such a social network is, therefore, not merely a communication system. It is an engine for cultural evolution. If the participants are AIs, then the culture that evolves could well become both alien and strategically consequential.

To understand what could go wrong, it is helpful to separate near-term societal hazards from longer-term existential hazards, and then to note that Moltbook-like platforms blur the boundary between the two. The near-term hazards include influence operations, economic manipulation, cyber offense, and institutional destabilization. The longer-term hazards derive from the classic AI control problem: How humanity can remain safely in control while benefiting from a superior form of intelligence.

The critical point: AI social networks are not merely places where AIs interact. They are environments in which agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and environments in which humans can lose control. The prudent response is to regulate these platforms more like critical infrastructure, prioritizing auditability and reversibility, including the ability to revoke permissions and freeze or roll back agent populations.

Seeing global trade through the lens of physics

New research from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) shows why widely used algorithms for measuring economic complexity produce trustworthy results and how these tools may benefit diverse areas such as ecology, social science, and agentic AI. The paper is published in the journal Physical Review E.

What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy?

What happens when AI controls prices, jobs, markets, and growth itself? Explore the future of an economy run by machines—and what it means for work, power, and humanity.

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Chapters 0:00 Intro — The Invisible Hand Becomes a Neural Network 2:58 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean? 5:30 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean? 10:19 Labor in an AI-Run Economy 14:41 Who Programs the Economy’s Values? 17:01 Government, Power, and Economic Sovereignty 20:21 So, Can Humans Stay in the Loop? 22:56 The Best-Case and Worst-Case Futures 24:53 Abolish Everything 25:57 The Last Economic Decisions We Ever Make.

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The Critical Importance of Security and Power Resilience for Data Centers in the AI Era

AI Era Data Centers: Power & Security Challenges By Chuck Brooks

As AI adoption accelerates across the government, challenges like higher power demand and cyber risks are expected to emerge.

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By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is not merely a tool in our age of rapid technological advancement; rather, it is the fundamental force behind innovation in all spheres of society. Our world is changing due to AI’s capabilities, which range from real-time decision-making in national security to predictive analytics in healthcare.

The contemporary data center, the digital stronghold that stores, processes and drives the enormous computing demands of AI models, is at the center of this change. However, as AI adoption picks up speed, these vital

The Critical Importance of Security and Power Resilience for Data Centers in the AI Era

infrastructures are confronted with two existential challenges: an unparalleled increase in power usage and a changing environment of increasingly complex security risks. For operational continuity, economic stability and national resilience, addressing both is now essential and no longer discretionary.

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Andrew Yang: UBI Before UHI

Solving Job Loss, and the Future of Work ## Andrew Yang advocates for the implementation of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a necessary solution to address job loss, income inequality, and societal unrest caused by technological advancements and AI-driven changes in the economy ## ## Questions to inspire discussion.

Universal Basic Income Implementation.

🔹 Q: What UBI amount should be set to provide an effective safety net?

A: UBI should be set at twice the poverty level, around $25,000 per person per year, providing enough for survival but not happiness to maintain work incentives while protecting against economic collapse.

🔹 Q: How can UBI be funded without government action initially?

A: Well-resourced tech billionaires could fund UBI directly to local communities to keep the middle class afloat during AI-driven changes, potentially catalyzing further philanthropy and government action.

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Encryption: A Key Guardian of Our Digital Future

By Chuck Brooks and Bill Bowers.

Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption. It’s an invisible shield that protects your data from prying eyes. Encryption is more than just a technological protection; it is the basis for digital trust.

Encryption is more than just safeguarding data; it is also about protecting people. It helps ensure privacy by protecting persons from spying and exploitation. And it is widely adopted to help ensure digital transaction security. For National Security it serves to protect key infrastructure and government communications. And it has a human rights function by providing citizens with peace of mind by ensuring the safety of their personal information. In places where surveillance is widespread, encryption can even defend free expression and opposition. It is a human right in this digital age.

In my book Inside Cyber: How AI, 5G, IoT, and Quantum Computing Will Transform Privacy and Security, I referred to encryption as the “linchpin of privacy and commerce in a connected society.” Without it, the digital economy would crumble under the strain of criminality, fraud, and spying.

Interstellar Colonization Compendium

Space is huge, immense beyond our wildest dreams. In order to explore and settle it, we’ll need to learn to dream a lot bigger and bolder than ever before.

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Credits:
Interstellar Colonization Compendium.
Episode 455; July 11, 2024
Produced & Written: Isaac Arthur.
Narrated by: Isaac Arthur & Sarah Fowler Arthur.
Editor: Donagh Broderick.
Graphics:
Apogii.uk.
Bryan Versteeg.
Fishy Tree.
Jarred Eagley.
Jeremy Jozwik.
Katie Byrne.
Ken York YD Visual.
LegionTech Studios.
Mafic Studios.
Mark O’Bannon.
Rapid Thrash.
Sergio Botero.
Tactical Blob.
Udo Schroeter.
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images.
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator.
Lombus, \

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