The Super Intelligence News Report
Issue 25
Owning a piece, and cheaper ways to build
Good morning. Bronson here. Today is a day about who gets to own the machines and how much cheaper the tools around them are getting. Peter Diamandis runs the math on handing ordinary people a real stake in the AI economy, an AI model goes hunting for bugs in the software everyone already runs, and a venture investor argues the chip crunch is over. NASA is still building toward 2027.
Today in one minute
- Peter Diamandis adds up Elon Musk's share gift and Anthropic's public fund, and argues that ownership beats handouts.
- Anthropic says an unreleased internal AI model found five attack chains in widely used software, all disclosed to vendors.
- AI let British researchers analyse 98 million bat calls from 310 woodlands in three years, work that would otherwise take more than 30.
- NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says Artemis III must fly in 2027, and describes a Kennedy Space Center launching constantly.
- Khosla Ventures' Samir Kaul says the chip shortage is ending, and that energy and materials are the next real constraint.
- Warhound, from Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, raised $200 million to clone and genetically improve America's working dogs.
Business and investing
Elon's share gift and Anthropic's fund both point at ownership
In his Metatrends essay, Peter Diamandis adds up two moves: Elon Musk's plan to give one share of SpaceX to every American child, worth about $10.5 billion, and Anthropic's Public Benefit Fund, seeded with 5% of its shares. Together they come to roughly two days of American wages, which is his argument for why the answer is ownership that compounds rather than a one-time check. He traces the idea back to the Homestead Act and Alaska's oil dividend.
Source: Metatrends
AI models and agents
An AI model found five ways into widely used software
Human Progress flags research from Anthropic, which says it spent several months using an unreleased internal model to find critical vulnerabilities in widely used software, including browsers and operating systems. The write-up details five attack chains that reached remote code execution with little or no user interaction, across open-source and proprietary products. Each flaw went to its vendor under coordinated disclosure, which allows 90 days to patch.
Source: Human Progress
Energy and climate
AI counted 98 million bat calls in three years
Human Progress points to BBC reporting on Britain's largest woodland bat survey. Researchers left recording devices on poles in 310 woodlands and captured 98 million bat calls over three years, work the team says would have taken more than 30 years to analyse without AI. Rare species including the red-listed barbastelle turned up in the south-west of England, and one researcher says AI has changed the scale at which wildlife can be monitored.
Source: Human Progress
Space
NASA's chief says Artemis III must fly in 2027
In an exclusive Florida Today interview, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said the Artemis III lunar lander test must fly in 2027 so the agency learns what it needs before Artemis IV lands in 2028. He described Kennedy Space Center five years out as a spaceport launching constantly, naming Starship, Blue Origin, Stoke, Relativity and a yearly SLS flight. Asked what would change if China reached the moon first, he said there should be change, and that he has said he would be fired.
Source: Florida Today
Computing and chips
The chip crunch is ending, and energy is the next limit
On the MTS podcast, Khosla Ventures founding partner Samir Kaul argues the semiconductor shortage that produced Nvidia's 75% gross margins is already ending, pointing to Google selling its TPUs to rivals Amazon and OpenAI. He predicts the market will treat energy and upstream materials, the inputs to magnets, batteries and fusion, as the real constraint on AI growth by 2027. He also notes genome sequencing has fallen from about a billion dollars to roughly a hundred, turning biology into a data business.
Source: BigGo Finance
Biotech and longevity
A startup will clone top working dogs for the military
Warhound, launched by Colossal Biosciences' Ben Lamm and Anduril's Palmer Luckey, raised $200 million to rebuild America's supply of military and police working dogs. The company plans to clone and genetically screen Belgian Malinois and German shepherds, aiming for longer, healthier careers and fewer trainees lost to inherited conditions, and to equip the dogs with Anduril sensor helmets. More than 80% of US military working dogs come from Europe. The American Humane Society will certify its programs.
Source: LAmag
One to watch
Space
The hardest ideas get easier when you have 200 words
Asked by the New York Times' Kenneth Chang for roughly 200 words each on whether inflation implies a multiverse, what came before the Big Bang, and how the universe ends, physicist Brian Keating separates what has been measured from what has not. He notes that inflation and the multiverse are separate claims, and that heat death is a forecast resting on dark energy staying constant, which the newest survey data hint it might not. He admits his first instinct was to hand over the equations.
Source: Keating Experiments
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