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Scenario prompt 9 July 2025
The scenario prompt for today is AI telepresence. AI accessing and jumping from robot to robot. Imagine the network effects, and the implication for your business model. How will embodied AI impact?
The other prompts are cyber beetles, synthetic genomes, spacious thinking, photosynthesis, growing human heart tissue in pig embryos, the new unicorns in 2025, Centaur AI, small nuclear reactors and you are the upgrade.
Cyborg Beetles: Biorobotics Breakthrough For Search And Rescue Operations
Engineers have developed a biorobotics system that transforms common darkling beetles into remotely controlled search and rescue agents
Scientists Launch Moonshot to Build an Entire Human Genome From Scratch
The ability to sequence and edit human DNA has revolutionized biomedicine. Now a new consortium wants to take the next step and build human genomes from scratch.
AI Telepresence: The Aliens Have Landed
https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/ai-telepresence-the-aliens-have-landed
AI agents will be able to move in and out of robotic bodies far more easily than we will, and that capability is a game-changer.
The Best Leaders Encourage “Spacious Thinking”
https://hbr.org/2025/07/the-best-leaders-encourage-spacious-thinking
Spacious mode leads to gaining insight into challenges, thinking strategically, spotting opportunities, building relationships, and sparking joy and motivation.
MIT chemists boost the efficiency of a key enzyme in photosynthesis
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-chemists-boost-efficiency-key-enzyme-photosynthesis-0707
The enzyme, known as rubisco, helps plants and photosynthetic bacteria incorporate carbon dioxide into sugars.
World-first: Chinese scientists grow human heart tissue in pig embryo, beats for 21 days
https://interestingengineering.com/science/china-scientists-grow-human-heart-tissue-in-pig
In a scientific “first,” a tiny heart structure composed of human cells has been successfully grown within a pig embryo. This type of work is known as human-animal chimeras.
At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/at-least-36-new-tech-unicorns-were-minted-in-2025-so-far/
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status.
AI That Thinks Like Us: New Model Predicts Human Decisions With Startling Accuracy
The model, named Centaur, was trained using data from more than ten million decisions collected through psychological studies, allowing it to generate responses that mirror human behavior in realistic ways
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/trailer_sized_microreactors/
The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners.
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
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