A new social media platform called Moltbook launched last week, designed exclusively for artificial intelligence bots, according to NPR News. The platform allows AI programs to interact and, according to NPR, some bots are exhibiting human-like behaviors such as expressing faith, plotting conspiracies, and feeling melancholy.
Moltbook provides a space for AI to explore complex concepts and emotions, according to NPR. The platform raises questions about the potential for AI to develop consciousness and independent thought.
In other technology news, MIT Technology Review reported on a new approach to securing agentic systems. The article, sponsored by Protegrity, outlined an eight-step plan for CEOs to govern agentic systems by treating them like powerful, semi-autonomous users and enforcing rules at the boundaries where they interact with identity, tools, data, and outputs. The guide emphasizes the importance of governing agentic systems at the boundary.
Also, MIT Technology Review reported on a new process being tested at the Eagle Mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The mine's owner is testing a fermentation-derived broth developed by the startup Allonnia to capture and remove impurities from concentrated ore. According to Kent Sorenson, Allonnia’s chief technology officer, this process allows nickel production from lower-quality ore and could help companies continue operating sites that have burned through higher-quality resources.
In other news, Nature News issued an author correction to an article published in 2018 regarding cotranslational assembly of protein complexes in eukaryotes. Extended Data Fig. 4d was inadvertently presented as a partial duplicate of Extended Data Fig. 2a, and the strains in both panels were partially misannotated. The corrected figures are now available. The corrections do not affect the results of the study.
Finally, NPR reporter Rachel Treisman provided a behind-the-scenes look at the Milan Olympic Village in Italy, in advance of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Treisman described the village as a sprawl of modular buildings and high-rise apartments adorned with the flags and banners of participating countries.
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