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Discovery of Orbital Angular Momentum Monopoles Enables Orbital Electronics with Chiral Materials
Niels Schröter, IDW, 2024/09/27

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I just love this kind of stuff. "In traditional electronics, information is transferred using the charge of electrons. However, future technologies may rely on a different property of electrons—their intrinsic angular momentum." Will this impact your life? Doubtful. Is it nonetheless really cool with potential applications for the next generation? Absolutely. The link to the Nature article is broken, but there's more information at the Max Planck Institute.

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OpenAI plans tectonic shift from nonprofit to for-profit, giving Altman equity
Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 2024/09/27

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It was always going to happen, of course, no matter what the companies involved said at the outset. The very noton of 'non-profit' or 'social good' is antithetical to the purpose of a corporation. So OpenAI was always going to become non-open. While, of course, keeping the name.

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STORM
Stanford University, 2024/09/27

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Another application of AI. "Get a Wikipedia-like report on your topic. STORM is a research prototype for automating the knowledge curation process." I love how it says "it may take 3 minutes" to generate my article. But I want it NOW! I also like how it shows you what articles it's reading as it reads them. Anyhow, here is the report it generated on Connectvism. It's a bit rough - I think I could do better. But not in three minutes.

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