Quantum Pill Weekly #066 - The latest breakthroughs and advancements in AI, Medicine, Wearable Tech, and Astronomy.
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💊 Olo: A new color discovered
💡Description: Scientists at UC Berkeley have successfully made five people see a completely new color, called “olo,” which lies outside the natural human visual spectrum. Using a precise laser setup to stimulate only the medium-wavelength (M) cone cells in the retina—something impossible under natural conditions—they created a perception of a hyper-saturated blue-green never before seen.
💭Mental Meal: From enabling color-blind individuals to perceive colors they’ve never seen, to revolutionizing displays with retina-targeted, ultra-high-fidelity visuals, this research pushes us closer to experiencing realities beyond our biological limits
💊 Omniscient Perplexity
💡Description: Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, revealed that their upcoming browser, Comet, is designed to track users’ entire online behavior — from purchases to browsing habits — to build detailed user profiles and sell hyper-personalized ads.
💭Mental Meal: A full-scale surveillance AI browser sounds close to a Black Mirror episode. Whether individuals will benefit form better ad targeting or not, it’s important to consider the privacy implications of such a roll-out.
💊 ChatGPT image generation API
💡Description: OpenAI has integrated its popular image generation model, gpt-image-1, into its API, allowing developers and enterprises to create high-quality, customizable images directly within their own platforms.
💭Mental Meal: This move offers a seamless solution for so many brands (e.g. Canva, GoDaddy, and Airtable to name a few) to enhance creativity without switching apps, while ensuring safety through metadata tagging and strict content moderation tools.
💊 Google’s latest AI music update
💡Description: DeepMind has expanded access to its Music AI Sandbox, a set of AI-driven tools developed closely with musicians to enhance creativity in music production. Featuring new capabilities like Lyria 2 for high-fidelity audio generation and Lyria RealTime for interactive music creation, the platform allows users to compose, extend, and edit musical ideas through simple prompts and intuitive controls.
💭Mental Meal: By blending human artistry with AI’s limitless potential, we might soon see entirely new genres, workflows, and sounds emerge—proving that when technology empowers creativity, the future of music knows no bounds.
💊 NHS x AI
💡Description: NHS has been taking steps to integrate AI into medical workflows, following successful trials where AI-driven voice technology helped free up time, shortened appointments, and allowed medical staff to focus more directly on patient care.
💭Mental Meal: Beyond improving efficiency, this move could lead to more empathetic, accurate, and accessible healthcare systems. It’s a glimpse into a future where technology supports—not replaces—human connection in medicine.
💊 Wireless bionic hand that crawls on Its own
💡Description: Open Bionics, a UK startup, has unveiled “Hero,” the world’s first wireless bionic arm, featuring a detachable hand that can independently move and perform tasks. Using non-invasive MyoPod sensors that pick up muscle signals, the Hero arm allows users to control the hand’s movements without implants or wires.
💭Mental Meal: Imagine needing to complete a physical task that you yourself cannot fully complete, but your arm can. It literally reminds you the Thing from the Adams Family.
💊 Meta AI glasses major updates
💡Description: Meta is expanding the capabilities of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses by rolling out real-time live translation and conversational AI features globally. Users can now translate languages on the fly, engage in free-flowing conversations with their surroundings, send Instagram messages, and interact with music apps.
💭Mental Meal: This point toward a future where wearable tech seamlessly bridges communication barriers, enhances real-world navigation, and deepens human interaction with AI. I hope this fuels open innovation and empowers rapid wearable tech advancements.
💊 JWST detects potential life signs?
💡Description: Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected potential biosignatures—specifically sulfur-based molecules like dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS)—in the atmosphere of the distant exoplanet K2-18b.
💭Mental Meal: These molecules, known on Earth to be produced only by living organisms, strengthen the hypothesis that K2-18b, a possible “Hycean” (ocean-covered) world, could support microbial life. Although not yet conclusive, they represent one of the most compelling signs of extraterrestrial life detected so far.
💊 AI blood test for early cancer detection
💡Description: Scientists at the University of Southampton and biotech startup Xgenera have developed miONCO-Dx, an AI-powered blood test that can detect up to 12 types of cancer with just 10 drops of blood, boasting an astonishing 99% accuracy in initial trials.
💭Mental Meal: By analyzing microRNA fragments in the blood, the test identifies cancer presence and location long before symptoms emerge. Currently entering NHS clinical trials, this breakthrough could drastically shift cancer diagnosis toward earlier, less invasive detection.
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