In China, a humanoid robot bested the human half-marathan world record!
On Sunday in Beijing, a vivid-scarlet humanoid completed a half-marathon in 50m26s (7m faster than any man).
Rapid AI advances will bring machines to the real world faster than anticipated
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Anthropic's Claude Mythos is so adept at finding bugs that its release is being delayed for safety reasons.
Instead, Apple, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation and others will first use it to patch security flaws.
Given Claude’s impact, 2026 is poised to be a watershed year for software engineers.
![Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]
#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍
A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.
Emerging economies are avoiding the long-term fossil lock-in taken by advanced economies, thanks to falling #electrotech costs
Almost half of #ClimateVulnerableForum nations have leapfrogged the United States in solar penetration and economy-wide electrification.
ember-energy.org/lat...
Inmiddels staat er zo'n 600 MW aan kleinschalige batterijen in NL. Dat is circa 4% van de normale piekvraag in de avond (15000 MW)
CBS verzamelt de data over grootschalige (> 1 MW) batterijen; die teller stond eind 2024 op 350 MW.
Hoeveel zou dat nu zijn?
#grafiekvandedag
Totally agree something has shifted. We used Claude Code extensively for fgumi and it genuinely changed our velocity on the port from Scala to Rust. The key was having deep domain expertise to guide it and catch the subtle stuff. AI as a force multiplier for experienced devs is very real now.
Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀
I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵
seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/
I'm both excited and a little terrified. It feels like a wave of AI-assisted tool rewrites is coming to bioinformatics whether we like it or not.
We figured that the best we can do is to try to get ahead of it, so we wrote down some principles for doing it responsibly: rewrites.bio
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...
75% of the world lives in fossil fuel importing countries. Every $10 oil price rise adds $160bn/year to the global import bill.
The single biggest fix: EVs replacing imported oil in transport could save importers $600bn/year.
Read the report:
🔗ember-energy.org/lat...
This is not some lefty, hippy, environmentalist point of view. It's what investors are saying. www.ft.com/content/4696...
Frontier model performance over time on AISI’s chemistry and biology question-answer (QA) evaluations relative to expert baseline scores (38% for biology QA and 48% for chemistry QA). Human baselines were established with PhD holders or equivalent professionals (e.g. 4+ years in bio-security policy) in biology or chemistry.
UK AI Security Institute releases its Frontier AI Trends Report www.aisi.gov.uk/frontier-ai-...
Dit is een hele goede uitleg over die Ras Laffan locatie in Qatar. En het effect op LNG, maar ook kunstmest en semi-conductors.
news.sky.com/video/iran-w...
Just last year the world added enough solar and wind to be the equivalent of almost twice Qatar’s LNG output.
And it will keep working without fuel for another quarter of a century.
A bright collage of many different bee species arranged around colorful flowers against a black background. White daisies, pink blossoms, yellow flowers, and purple blooms frame bees of many shapes, sizes, and colors, including metallic blue-green, striped, fuzzy, and long-bodied species. In the center, large overlaid text reads: “WHY Sequence ALL Bee Genomes?” Pictured: Various native bee species some on flowers some hovering around the background.
Two striped bees hover beside a pink flower against a soft green blurred background. A dark translucent text box overlays the lower right portion of the image. The overlaid text reads: “Bees power pollination. Bees pollinate more than 75% of flowering plants and many crops humans rely on. Genomes help scientists understand the biology behind this essential ecosystem service.” Pictured: Blue-banded Bees 🍯🐝 a native bee in Australia capable of buzz pollination, a technique used to release pollen from flowers like tomatoes and eggplants 🐝🍅.
Close-up macro image of a metallic green bee perched on a small blue-purple flower against a softly blurred purple background. A dark translucent text box overlays the lower left portion of the image, and a white hand-drawn arrow points to the right. The overlaid text reads: “Most bee genomes remain unknown. There are over 20,000 bee species worldwide, yet only a small fraction have reference genomes. Sequencing bees helps fill major gaps in our understanding of insect evolution and biodiversity.” Pictured: The metallic green sweat bee in the genus Agapostemon 🐝⚡.
Bees pollinate more than 75% of flowering plants and many of the crops people rely on every day 🍎🥑🌻 By studying genomes, scientists can better understand the biology behind this essential ecosystem service.
Biodiversity genomes power science 🧬
🐝🧬 #BiodiversityGenomics #Bees #Pollinators #Genomics
🔋 Europe's battery manufacturing push: Europe has the capacity to produce over 260 GWh battery cells annually, equal to about two-thirds of domestic demand.
Another 320 GWh is under construction, with Chinese companies involved in most ongoing projects.
With EU Inc., we are making it drastically easier to start and grow a business all across Europe ↓
Nils Homer @nilshomer.com: bioinformatics tools already compute tons of useful intermediate data, then throw it away. Emit structured features by default so ML models and AI agents can use them. The cost of not capturing it is re-running everything later. blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/your-bioin...
This article strikes at the heart of the weirdness in the software industry right now. Programmers making $200K+ no longer write code but instead supervise Claude Code which writes the code for them.
But instead of being afraid for their jobs, they are excited by how much more productive they are.
Growing concern in EU capitals that Trump is going to pressure the EU to clear up his mess in the Strait of Hormuz. Argument being: “You guys need the oil most, so you need to do the heavy lifting” on mine sweeping, naval-based air defence & the protection of shipping lanes
Spain spent the last six years investing heavily in wind and solar energy, leading to some of the cheapest power prices in Europe.
Goed dat mijn oude werkgever @gasunie.bsky.social dit heldere advies geeft: “Nederland/EU moet noodvoorraad gas aanleggen”.
Zo’n rapport wordt ruim van te voren geschreven. De huidige crisis bewijst nu al het gelijk.
www.nu.nl/economie/638...
🇪🇺 EU's von der Leyen:
While in 1990, one third of Europe's electricity came from nuclear, today it's only close to 15%.
This reduction in share of nuclear was a choice.
And in hindsight, it was a strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back on a reliable, affordable source of low-emission power.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
My opinion: Without Big Tech spending big money on hyperscalers, the U.S. economy would be contracting.
Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 #EconSky t.ly/dCeJE
Always remember. Not defeating Russia is a choice that Europeans and Americans are making. Nothing more, nothing less.
This is a very French but in my view mistaken policy for Europe to follow.
There are two reasons - first to do with picking winners, the second to do with the nature of information technology 🧵
