💡 Warp News #230
🌎 Global Overshoot Day occurs later this year. 🤑 Gen Z is richer than previous generations at the same age. 🚅 Europe's longest test track for Hyperloop opens in the Netherlands.
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🌎 North America tour
Welcome to all new subscribers! There has been a surge following the recent lectures.
In the last two weeks, I have held eight talks and classes, all on AI. It has been a bit hectic to keep up with Warp News as well, but it is a pleasant problem.
Next week I am traveling to Canada and the US for more assignments. An AI class with the board and management for a listed company in Toronto, then to Raleigh to give talks and participate in meetings at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Since I am covering two countries, I call it my North American tour, hehe. It's not quite Taylor Swift-class, but still.
🚋 Report from the latest meeting with the AI commission
This time in sunny Gothenburg, where, apart from AI discussions, we got an answer to the question of whether chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg rides the tram. Read the report.
Mathias Sundin
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🖥️ Should Sweden invest in models or increase the use of AI? – report from the second meeting of the AI Commission
The AI Commission's second meeting was held in Gothenburg. There, as you know, people take the tram. Besides that, we discussed whether Sweden should invest in AI models or increase the use of AI, or perhaps both?
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🤑 Gen Z is richer than previous generations at the same age
Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, has significantly higher incomes and greater financial stability compared to millennials and baby boomers at the same age.
🌎 Global Overshoot Day occurs later this year
According to the Global Footprint Network, ecological "overshoot" occurs when human demand exceeds the regenerative capacity of natural ecosystems. The later in the year this day occurs, the better. (But the model also has clear flaws.)
🔋 Electric cars will continue to rise in the US (despite what some claim)
Despite challenges such as inadequate charging infrastructure and high costs, 42 percent of respondents are considering buying an electric car as their next vehicle.
🚅 Europe's longest test track for Hyperloop opens in the Netherlands
The EU is investing in hyperloop technology with a new testing facility in the Netherlands. Hyperloop could significantly reduce commuting times between cities in Europe.
🚗 Fewer traffic deaths in the US last year
Traffic deaths in the USA decreased by 3.6 percent last year. This marks the second consecutive year of a decrease in deaths, despite an increase in miles driven.
🚁 Dragonfly to explore the fascinating landscape of the moon Titan
NASA's Dragonfly aims to explore Saturn's moon Titan with a unique helicopter that will fly and take samples. Titan is the only known celestial body in the solar system, besides Earth, that has liquid on its surface and a dynamic weather system.
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