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Impact Update
Weâre excited to announce Abundance House, a 6-week residency for high-impact founders in Tahoe, California. Work on your venture alongside mission-driven builders in a space designed for deep focus and genuine connection. The residency runs from October 1st to November 16th, and applications are due by August 20th. Subscribe here for updates about the house and to be notified when future cohorts are running.
In the News
đ¤ AI is being used to design proteins that can kill drug-resistant âsuperbugâ strains of E. Coli and create new forms of ultra-durable concrete.
đ¨đłđŽđł Chinaâs CO2 emissions fell in the first half of 2025, and India added 22 GW of solar so far this year.
đ New photonic transistors are underway using ultrashort pulses of light instead of electricity.
đ§ For both human brain neural circuitry and LLM neural network circuitry, the maps are proving remarkably similar.
đ Android phones now make up the worldâs largest earthquake detection and warning system.
Opportunities
Apollo Research is a London-based research and auditing organisation focused on detecting deception in advanced AI systems. âWe're seeking an Evals Demonstration Engineer who will design new demonstrations and translate our technical evaluation findings into compelling and accessible demonstrations for policymakers and non-technical stakeholders (e.g. government officials, think tanks).â
The US Government's Department of Energy manages the United States' nuclear infrastructure and administers the country's energy policy. They also fund scientific research in the field. âSULI is a paid internship opportunity sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Scienceâs Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) in collaboration with DOE laboratories/facilities. Students can participate in SULI either in a 10-week summer internship (MayâAugust) or in a semester-long experience (AugustâDecember or JanuaryâMay).â
Khan Academy is looking for a fixed-term AI engineer to join their team. âAs an AI Engineer, youâll take responsibility for integrating AI into Khan Academy product features, collaborating with our Product Management, Design, Engineering, and Content teams to develop tools and processes that ensure the consistency and quality of AI implementations.â
Data.org has a handful of open positions - check them out here. âData.org is a platform for partnerships committed to building the field of data for social impact. We believe in using the power of data analytics and insights to unlock solutions to some of society's most pressing challenges.â
âTopos Institute is hiring for a first full-time Software Engineer to develop CatColab, our collaboration platform for formal, interoperable, conceptual modeling, based in our Oxford, UK office.â See their full pdf here.
What Weâre Watching
This is a fabulous piece by Rest Of World that showcases the Syrian entrepreneurs and engineers who fled during the Assad regime, but our returning now to build Syriaâs tech ecosystem.
We loved reading this Reboot article about the intersection between reproductive rights and technology. Itâs fascinating to witness how technologies like IVF were once feared, but are now regarded as commonplace - might the same be said of artificial wombs in a few years?
The clean energy revolution is truly passed a tipping point in Texas, where solar and wind now each outpace coal in terms of energy production per year, and taken together, the two now even outpace natural gas.
Incarcerated individuals are being allowed access to online college courses, but their freedoms even there are severely restricted.
AI is being used to design proteins that can kill drug-resistant âsuperbugâ strains of E. Coli and create new forms of ultra-durable concrete.
Citizen scientists have helped track meteorites as theyâve fallen to earth (some even used doorbell cameras), and the data they collect helps researchers determine their origins in the Asteroid Belt
Quotes We Love
âSummer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.â
â Henry James
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