Pentagon scientists microchip detects COVID-19 in the blood before symptoms show
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DARPA looks for new ways to decouple legacy code from hardware
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Legacy code is the bane of many older organisations existence and it’s hard to modernise, upgrade, and secure, so DARPA wants to change the paradigm. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The...
US stealth ship reaches insane speeds to out race everything in the ocean
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500 hackers spent three months trying to hack a radical new computer chip and failed
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US Pentagon successfully tests solar power concept to beam energy to Earth from space
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Wireless Brain to Brain telepathy gets another DARPA funding boost to go next level
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The world’s first active duty military AI co-pilot just got its next mission
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Researchers create first of a kind quantum sensor that scans the entire RF spectrum
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DeepMind’s AI learns the rules as it goes so it can conquer the real world
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AI everywhere as DARPA spins up new intelligent edge computing projects
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today the vast majority of AI workloads run in centralised hyperscale datacenters, tomorrow they’ll run at the edge of the network on our smart devices, and revolutionise industries in new ways. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
World first as AI officially joins the crew onboard a US military jet
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans will increasingly be working with and alongside AI’s – and the military is no exception. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In a major technological leap forward for national defense in...
DARPA AI learns to autonomously build computer networks on the fly in minutes
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The US military found a way to use AI to turn humans into living sensor networks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This sounds like science fiction, again, but turning humans into living sensor networks that are monitored and controlled by AI is technologically possible now. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In...
US military starts using human gamers brainwaves to train killer robot swarms
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USAF experiments with neurotraining to cut pilot training times in half
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DARPA selects Gryphon to build world’s first ever nuclear rocket engine
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s combustion engine rockets are cheap-ish but not that efficient so the race is on to develop new and better power systems. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A little while...
US Air Force announces plans to update fighter jet software in mid flight
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Air Force One to go hypersonic after USAF signs contract with US engine maker
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Battery breakthrough lets robots store energy like humans do in fat reserves
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AI fighter pilot obliterates human USAF pilot in simulated dogfights
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s learn in fundamentally different ways to humans, and increasingly that seems to be their advantage in human-machine competitions. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Who’s better in a dog fight...
