Optimus Ballet, Mind Control Video Editing, Self-Training AI, Blackhole Bombs, Lead to Gold - Speciale Focus #30
Well, Optimus Now Does Ballet!
We don’t need to explain this too much. The pace at which humanoid robots are progressing is crazy. The days when robots will replace humans for complex physical tasks is not far away!
Patient Edits Video Using Mind Control - Neuralink
AI Can Now Create It’s Own Training Data. Wait, what?!
Tsinghua University, in collaboration with the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), has introduced a groundbreaking AI training paradigm called Absolute Zero. This approach enables large language models (LLMs) to learn entirely without human-labeled data, marking a significant shift in AI development methodologies. Read more here.
Hydrogen Bombs Are Okay, But Have You Heard Of Blackhole Bombs?
In a groundbreaking lab experiment, physicists at the University of Southampton demonstrated superradiance—a process theorized to extract energy from spinning black holes—using a rotating metal cylinder and electromagnetic waves. Inspired by predictions from Roger Penrose and Yakov Zel’dovich, the team simulated a “black hole bomb,” where energy is amplified as waves bounce between the rotating cylinder and mirrored boundaries. Their setup caused voltages to rise exponentially, confirming long-held theoretical predictions. Though the energy released was minimal (just millijoules), it proved that such amplification, once thought unobservable, is physically real and testable.
The experiment also touched on deeper implications like vacuum fluctuations—quantum events where particles momentarily emerge from nothing. While thermal noise masked pure vacuum effects, the setup still amplified spontaneously generated electromagnetic waves, mimicking how rotating black holes might emit energy even in the absence of incoming radiation. This work opens up the possibility of studying black holes as energy sources or particle detectors in the lab and may eventually contribute to new energy technologies or fundamental physics breakthroughs related to dark matter and quantum vacuum energy. Read more here.
Scientist Briefly Turn Lead To Gold - I mean????
At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, physicists briefly turned lead into gold by colliding lead ions near light speed. Occasionally, glancing collisions cause the ejection of three protons, transforming lead (atomic number 82) into gold (79). The ALICE detector identified 86 billion gold nuclei created between 2015–2018—lasting only a microsecond and totaling just trillionths of a gram.
This modern “alchemy” isn’t practical for producing gold but advances understanding of nuclear transformations via electromagnetic interactions. It also helps refine beam stability in particle accelerators—showcasing science’s power to achieve what once seemed mythical. Read more.
That’s it folks. We’ll leave you with this for the month and come back soon with another set of wow reads specially curated for the curious you!
Until then, Team Speciale signing off!