Toward the end of 2024, I offered a take on all the talk about whether AI’s “scaling laws” were hitting a real-life technical wall. I argued that the question matters less than many think: There are existing AI systems powerful enough to profoundly change our world, and the next few years are going to be defined by progress in AI, whether the scaling laws hold or not.
— Read on www.vox.com/future-perfect/394336/artificial-intelligence-openai-o3-benchmarks-agi

2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to top 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. All 10 of the hottest years have been in the last decade
— Read on www.scientificamerican.com/article/2024-is-officially-the-hottest-year-on-record/

Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/01/climate-models-earth/681207/

As if microplastics weren’t already causing enough problems for humans and our environment, scientists have found they’re now hitching a ride on natural clusters in waterways, allowing them to travel further distances than previously thought.
— Read on www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/hitchhiking-microplastics-pollution-water-flocs/