3 new financial “buckets” for financial planning in an exponential world.
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Nov 19 2024
How to Do Something About AI Now
We are at a crucial crossroad for humanity. What can we do now to shape it towards AI enhanced future?
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Nov 14 2024
The Rise of Agentic AI: Transforming Daily Life by 2025
I was looking at the amazing computational advances of Nvidia’s new A200 chips, which will enable “agentic AI”. Agentic AI is where you can assign an AI assistant to independently take on an assigned task which could involve multiple steps and “modalities” i.e. text/visual/video/audio, access the internet live, check it results and report back – …
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Nov 08 2024
Endless Returns of the Longevity Dividend
I’m a big fan of Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva. A true pioneer in the world of slowing and reversing aging, she recently wrote an article called, Endless Returns: BioViva, Gene Therapy, and the Global Economy. The article explores the revolutionary potential of gene therapy in addressing aging and its economic implications. Longevity-enhancing interventions can …
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Oct 22 2024
AI-Enabled Robots as Companions and Assistants
AI-enabled robots are evolving to become essential companions and assistants in daily life, particularly addressing loneliness among the elderly. These robots will perform various tasks while providing emotional support. Despite ethical challenges, their benefits are expected to significantly enhance human quality of life.
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Aug 23 2024
What Is An Extra Year of Healthy Lifespan Worth?
Why Improving Healthy Longevity Is Important Imagine a world where people enjoy longer, healthier lives. With the progress in anti-aging research, this is increasingly becoming a reality. Moreover, it could represent a windfall of over $37 trillion for the United States alone! A study by Scott et al. (2021) titled “The economic value of targeting …
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Jul 10 2024
Your Personal AI Health Care Assistant – (here shortly)
Image thx to Dall-E 3 Personal AI assistants are already showing up via smart chatbots that have been fed with appropriate data uploads. The chat bot can respond in an intelligent fashion from the corpus of data that was uploaded. May seem cute at first, but this is just the beginning. We are quickly moving …
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Jun 22 2024
Navigating the Financial Future: Longevity and Pension Sustainability
The future of pensions in the age of life extension is a complex and multifaceted issue that will require the collective effort of governments, financial institutions, and individuals to navigate successfully
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Jun 18 2024
The Future of Retirement: AI and the Quest for Longer, Healthier Lives
As we stand on the brink of unprecedented technological advancements, the concept of retirement is undergoing a radical transformation. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and breakthroughs in medical science are setting the stage for a future where living healthier, longer lives is not just a dream but an impending reality. Here are some of …
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Oct 01 2021
How The Pandemic Changes Retirement
The pandemic will very likely speed up the time when people’s healthy life span (or healthspan) is further extended. Impacts to retirement are huge.
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- Textbook Depictions of Neurons May Be Wrong, According to Controversial Study December 20, 2024In the late 1800s, Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal drew hundreds of images of neurons. His exquisite work influenced our understanding of what they look like: Cells with a bulbous center, a forest of tree-like branches on one end, and a long, smooth tail on the other. Centuries later, these images remain textbook. But […]Shelly Fan
- Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons December 19, 2024Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to form connections could be the future. While companies like Neuralink have recently provided some flashy demos of what could be achieved by hooking brains up to computers, the technology still has […]Edd Gent
- How to Be Healthy at 100: Centenarian Stem Cells Could Hold the Key December 18, 2024When Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122, her longevity had researchers scratching their heads. Although physically active for most of her life, she was also a regular smoker and enjoyed wine—lifestyle choices that are generally thought to decrease healthy lifespan. Teasing apart the intricacies of human longevity is complicated. Diet, exercise, and other […]Shelly Fan
- The Tech World Is ‘Disrupting’ Book Publishing. But Do We Want Effortless Art? December 17, 2024Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence. New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by Microsoft and a self-publishing tech startup that uses AI, promise to make publishing faster and more accessible than ever. But they also may threaten jobs—and demand a reconsideration of the status […]Julian Novitz
- Study Suggests an mRNA Shot Could Reverse This Deadly Pregnancy Condition December 16, 2024With a single shot, scientists protected pregnant mice from a deadly complication called pre-eclampsia. The shot, inspired by mRNA vaccines, contains mRNA instructions to make a protein that reverses damage to the placenta—which occurs in the condition—protecting both mother and growing fetus. Pre-eclampsia causes 75,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 fetal and newborn deaths every year […]Shelly Fan
- This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through December 14) December 14, 2024ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Google’s New Project Astra Could Be Generative AI’s Killer App Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review “Last week I was taken through an unmarked door on an upper floor of a building in London’s King’s Cross district into a room with strong secret-project vibes. The word ‘ASTRA’ was emblazoned in giant letters […]Singularity Hub Staff
- The Secret to Predicting How Your Brain Will Age May Be in Your Blood December 13, 2024Brain aging occurs in distinctive phases. Its trajectory could be hidden in our blood—paving the way for early diagnosis and intervention. A new study published in Nature Aging analyzed brain imaging data from nearly 11,000 healthy adults, middle-aged and older, using AI to gauge their “brain age.” Roughly half of participants had their blood proteins […]Shelly Fan
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- How Cellular Reprogramming Affects Mitochondrial Dysfunction December 19, 2024Creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) causes mutant mitochondrial populations to change, and researchers have investigated this phenomenon more thoroughly. Easy to mutate Being outside of the protection of […]Josh Conway
- BioAge Labs Announces Multi-Year Collaboration with Novartis December 18, 2024BioAge Labs, Inc. (“BioAge”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic product candidates for metabolic diseases by targeting the biology of human aging, today announced a multi-year research collaboration with Novartis. The collaboration aims to identify and validate […]Press release
- Lower Rates of Epigenetic Aging in Olympic Champions December 18, 2024A recent investigation into Hungarian Olympic champions suggests slower epigenetic aging and differences in gene methylation patterns between champions and non-champions [1]. Exercising your way to longevity Exercise seems to be […]Anna Drangowska-Way
- A Senolytic Approach to Faster Wound Healing December 17, 2024Researchers have published in Aging their findings that a senolytic compound accelerates wound healing in aged mice when it is administered before the wound occurs. A well-known laboratory senolytic While some senescent cells have been found […]Josh Conway
- Encouraging Hair Growth by Reducing Senescence December 16, 2024In Aging Cell, researchers have described how to improve the hair growth potential of stem cells and organoids by reducing cellular senescence. The quest for a true stem cell hair […]Josh Conway
- Why Research Teams Should Email XPRIZE Healthspan Now December 13, 2024With the deadline for submissions just around the corner, Jamie Justice, Executive Director of XPRIZE HealthSpan, explains to researchers still on the fence why they should contact her team now but also why missing the deadline is not the […]Arkadi Mazin
- LongGame Venture Capital Fund Officially Launched December 12, 2024Crypto investor and founder Will Harborne will lead a new enterprise aimed at funding and supporting groundbreaking longevity technologies. From crypto to longevity The burgeoning field of longevity biotech is about to have a new player. Like many recent […]Arkadi Mazin