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[OrbSurgical-Calgary @OrbSurg]

@demishassabis In an interconnected world, great minds, efforts, paths often intertwine… for greater purpose within reach.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

In 2019, Elon Musk sat across from Jack Ma on a stage in Shanghai.

Two of the most powerful men alive.

One conversation that exposed everything.

Ma had a thesis. He believed it the way men believe the things that flatter them.

Ma: “Humans can never create another animal that is smarter than humans.”

It sounded like science.

It was a prayer.

Musk: “I very much disagree with that.”

No heat. No counterargument. The flat voice of a man who has already run the numbers and found nothing on the other side.

Ma pressed. He wanted the comfort said back to him.

Ma: “Computers may be clever, but human beings are much smarter.”

Musk didn’t answer. He reached for his water. Took a slow sip. Set it down.

Musk: “Yeah, definitely not.”

Not the words.

The water.

The gesture of a man who realized the conversation had ended minutes ago and only one of them noticed.

Ma was voicing the deepest assumption humanity carries.

That biological intelligence is the ceiling of intelligence itself.

It sounds true. It feels true.

It has never once been true about anything else we have ever built.

We never outran predators. We built weapons.

Never outswam oceans. We built ships.

Never outflew birds. We built planes.

Every breakthrough in human history is a tool that exceeded the body that made it.

Ten thousand years of the same pattern.

And now we are building the tool that does to the mind what every other tool did to muscle and bone.

Ma’s objection was never technical.

It was existential.

If something can outthink you, what exactly are you?

Most people refuse to let that question fully form.

Musk lets it form. Sits inside it. Builds into it.

Because he understands something Ma doesn’t.

Building beyond yourself was never a flaw in human intelligence.

It was the entire function of it.

Every parent raises a child they hope surpasses them. Every teacher works toward the day they’re no longer needed.

Creating something greater than yourself is not a threat to what you are.

It is the most human thing there is.

Ma looked at AI and saw something that needed to stay beneath him.

Musk looked at it and saw the most human project ever attempted.

That is what separated the two men on that stage.

The audience laughed that day in Shanghai.

They thought Ma was charming and Musk was awkward.

They didn’t realize they were watching two entirely different futures sit three feet apart.

Certainty is the anesthetic. It feels like clarity. It is the precise sensation of a door closing in a room you would swear is still open.

Ma used the most sophisticated product of blind evolution to argue that intentional design could never exceed it.

The thesis refuted itself before he finished the sentence.

[OrbSurgical-Calgary @OrbSurg]

@astro_reid Strong roots to return home, to stay grounded … but fly higher, further enough to distant lands, planets… stars!!! Welcome home crew & congratulations to all who made the Mission Possible!!!

[Canadian Space Agency @csa_asc]

Today is the International Day of Human Spaceflight 🚀. An opportunity to highlight the humanity, collaboration, and boldness that shaped every moment of the Artemis II mission. Together, we push boundaries. 🌍✨

Photo : NASA

[Ryan Rosenblatt, Back to Back World Series Champ @RyanRosenblatt]

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED

EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

As Artemis II continues its journey, it’s a good moment to recognize the army of a team behind that it takes to undertake such a mission.

From the engineers and technicians who built the systems, to the launch team, Mission Control, and the recovery crews preparing for splashdown - and everyone behind this mission.

Thank you to the workforce making this mission possible every single day.

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: Watch with us as the Artemis II astronauts make their closest approach to the Moon, traveling farther from Earth than ever before. https://t.co/Zpy7GdTqA8

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[project hail dado ⚢ 🎱 @astrasdoctor]

shes SO well spoken

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[OrbSurgical-Calgary @OrbSurg]

@csa_asc @Astro_Jeremy @Astro_Jenni The world is our oyster… truly.
Grateful and inspired… 👍Team Artemis II!!

[Canadian Space Agency @csa_asc]

A proud Canadian moment: @astro_jenni on the ground, @astro_jeremy in space connect for the very first time since the launch of Artemis II. 🥹🇨🇦

[OrbSurgical-Calgary @OrbSurg]

@NASA @rookisaacman @AstroVicGlover We can all agree.. “Creativity is awe inspiring….” Go Team Artemis II.. all the way and back!!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

https://t.co/vD2jFtHM7O

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

AlphaGenome is our latest & most advanced genomics model published in @Nature today including making the model & weights available to academic researchers. Can’t wait to see what the research community will do with it. Congrats to the team on our newest front cover! #AI4Science

[OrbSurgical-Calgary @OrbSurg]

To an Amazing 2026!
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[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage.

Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest supercomputers. This new algorithm can explain interactions between atoms in a molecule using nuclear magnetic resonance, paving a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science.

And the result is verifiable, meaning its outcome can be repeated by other quantum computers or confirmed by experiments.

This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we're excited to see where it leads.

[AOE @AOEalberta]

Congratulations to the 2024 Alberta Order of Excellence inductees.

They will be formally invested into the Order at a ceremony in October by our Chancellor, The Hon. Salma Lakhani, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.

#RemarkableAlbertans
#CelebrateExcellence
#Alberta

[AOE @AOEalberta]

The 2024 Alberta Order of Excellence members were inducted yesterday at Government House in Edmonton. They were all inspirational in their own way. We laughed, we cried. What an amazing day celebrating #remarkableAlbertans.

Read their full bios at https://t.co/VuqOLihmsj.