Alex Knapp
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· Jul 31
How AI And Mini-Organs Could Replace Testing Drugs On Animals
Congress and the FDA are pushing pharmaceutical companies to replace animals with technology for drug research. That’s a long way off, but startups and industry stalwarts are working to make it happen...
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My latest - there's been a big push from regulators and legislators to eliminate animal testing during the drug development process. The industry wants this, too. But it's easier said than done.
I took a look at a few of the companies developing technologies that might make it possible one day.
I took a look at a few of the companies developing technologies that might make it possible one day.
My favorite fun fact about Taco Bell is the fact that it's named for its founder, Glen Bell.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My favorite fun fact about Taco Bell is the fact that it's named for its founder, Glen Bell.
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God speed ye taco bell scientists 🌮 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
God speed ye taco bell scientists 🌮 🧪
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The latest edition of our free @forbes.com tax newsletter, Tax Breaks, is out!
This week: Thanksgiving!
Plus: The IRS has reopened, some tariffs have been reversed, tax filing status and marriage, professional sports stadiums on the public dime, tax trivia, and more.
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This week: Thanksgiving!
Plus: The IRS has reopened, some tariffs have been reversed, tax filing status and marriage, professional sports stadiums on the public dime, tax trivia, and more.
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Tax Breaks: The Thanksgiving With Taxes, Tips And Tariffs On The Side Edition
Plus: The IRS has reopened, some tariffs have been reversed, tax filing status and marriage, professional sports stadiums on the public dime, tax trivia and more.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The latest edition of our free @forbes.com tax newsletter, Tax Breaks, is out!
This week: Thanksgiving!
Plus: The IRS has reopened, some tariffs have been reversed, tax filing status and marriage, professional sports stadiums on the public dime, tax trivia, and more.
www.forbes.com/sites/tax-br...
This week: Thanksgiving!
Plus: The IRS has reopened, some tariffs have been reversed, tax filing status and marriage, professional sports stadiums on the public dime, tax trivia, and more.
www.forbes.com/sites/tax-br...
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
🛢️ Trump’s offshore drilling plan draws bipartisan pushback
🚘 Fuzzy prospects for Tesla’s electric Cybercab
☀️ Using AI to optimize residential battery and solar power systems #oil #tesla www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
🛢️ Trump’s offshore drilling plan draws bipartisan pushback
🚘 Fuzzy prospects for Tesla’s electric Cybercab
☀️ Using AI to optimize residential battery and solar power systems #oil #tesla www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
New Offshore Drilling Plan Gets Bipartisan Pushback
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at the fuzzy prospects for Tesla’s electric Cybercab and using AI to optimize residential battery and solar systems
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November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
🛢️ Trump’s offshore drilling plan draws bipartisan pushback
🚘 Fuzzy prospects for Tesla’s electric Cybercab
☀️ Using AI to optimize residential battery and solar power systems #oil #tesla www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
🛢️ Trump’s offshore drilling plan draws bipartisan pushback
🚘 Fuzzy prospects for Tesla’s electric Cybercab
☀️ Using AI to optimize residential battery and solar power systems #oil #tesla www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
ICYMI, last week's edition of my newsletter talked about why LLMs are vulnerable to poetic attacks, how seaweed might be a better way to harvest rare earths and why learning a second language is good for you.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ICYMI, last week's edition of my newsletter talked about why LLMs are vulnerable to poetic attacks, how seaweed might be a better way to harvest rare earths and why learning a second language is good for you.
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Metaverse startup Napster earlier this year claimed to have raised a massive $3 billion round from one, unnamed investor, valuing it at $12 billion. Now it claims the money never landed and its working with law enforcement as a “victim of misconduct”.
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Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From A Mystery Investor. Now That Investor Is Gone
Forbes raised questions about a massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm Napster supposedly raised in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Metaverse startup Napster earlier this year claimed to have raised a massive $3 billion round from one, unnamed investor, valuing it at $12 billion. Now it claims the money never landed and its working with law enforcement as a “victim of misconduct”.
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
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The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
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That Oswald killed Kennedy, acting alone, is comprehensively proven beyond all reasonable a doubt, well beyond most historical facts we'd never question. The conspiracy theories did do a lot of real harm, but belief in them is essentially unfalsifiable. It wasn't a failure of the investigation.
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
That Oswald killed Kennedy, acting alone, is comprehensively proven beyond all reasonable a doubt, well beyond most historical facts we'd never question. The conspiracy theories did do a lot of real harm, but belief in them is essentially unfalsifiable. It wasn't a failure of the investigation.
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We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
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Billionaire Gordon Getty has never spoken out about Trump publicly—but privately called him a possible psychopath, emails in the Epstein release show:
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This Billionaire Called Trump A Possible Psychopath, Epstein Release Shows
Once America’s richest person, Gordon Getty has donated to anti-Trump PACs but he kept quiet. Now emails from Epstein documents show exactly how he feels.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Billionaire Gordon Getty has never spoken out about Trump publicly—but privately called him a possible psychopath, emails in the Epstein release show:
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
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New edition of my emerging tech and science newsletter, The Prototype, is here. This week we're focused on AI's vulnerability to poetry, the nuclear energy boom being fueled by data center growth, why you should learn multiple languages, and more.
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Attackers Can Use Poetry To Derail AI Safeguards
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at how poetry elides AI safeguards, the new boom in nuclear power, sourcing rare earths from seaweed, and more.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
New edition of my emerging tech and science newsletter, The Prototype, is here. This week we're focused on AI's vulnerability to poetry, the nuclear energy boom being fueled by data center growth, why you should learn multiple languages, and more.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...
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It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.
That's disappointing.
Trying to think of a sequel that got it right and all I can think of is Crank 2?
Trying to think of a sequel that got it right and all I can think of is Crank 2?
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
That's disappointing.
Trying to think of a sequel that got it right and all I can think of is Crank 2?
Trying to think of a sequel that got it right and all I can think of is Crank 2?
The Rio Grande basin is "potentially just two dry winters away from a major water shortage for farms and communities in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico."
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Study: Rio Grande basin at serious risk from overuse of water – The NAU Review
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November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The Rio Grande basin is "potentially just two dry winters away from a major water shortage for farms and communities in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico."
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OK, this is super cool. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Moss in space: spores survive nine-month ride on outside of ISS
Scientists say plant’s resilience suggests it could help with oxygen generation or soil formation on space missions
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November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
OK, this is super cool. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
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Under RFK Jr., CDC reverses course on stance that vaccines don’t cause autism
A CDC website now promotes the debunked idea of a link between vaccines and autism.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
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The American Academy of Pediatric and the AMA released a are refuting a new HHS report that promotes false information about health care for transgender kids, noting that many, many studies have found gender-affirming care to be safe and helpful for appropriate patients.
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AMA and AAP Joint Statement on Evidence-Based Health Care
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) represent hundreds of thousands of physicians nationwide. Our members provide evidence-based care with a clear, sing...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The American Academy of Pediatric and the AMA released a are refuting a new HHS report that promotes false information about health care for transgender kids, noting that many, many studies have found gender-affirming care to be safe and helpful for appropriate patients.
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
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November 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
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Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
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NEW - OpenAI's GPT-5 was kind of a disappointment, right?
But new analysis showed a sudden jump in OpenAI models' ability to write secure code.
Anthropic's Claude somehow got worse.
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But new analysis showed a sudden jump in OpenAI models' ability to write secure code.
Anthropic's Claude somehow got worse.
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OpenAI’s New Model Just Got Much Better At Writing More Secure Code
OpenAI’s frontier model may not have astounded when it arrived earlier this year, but research indicates it’s now much better than others at writing code with fewer vulnerabilities.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NEW - OpenAI's GPT-5 was kind of a disappointment, right?
But new analysis showed a sudden jump in OpenAI models' ability to write secure code.
Anthropic's Claude somehow got worse.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
But new analysis showed a sudden jump in OpenAI models' ability to write secure code.
Anthropic's Claude somehow got worse.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
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NEW - Hackers started using large language models to code up attacks on systems running a popular AI orchestration tool.
They then used those hacked AI systems to look for other vulnerable AI servers.
Human + AI vs. AI is the current paradigm, evidently.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
They then used those hacked AI systems to look for other vulnerable AI servers.
Human + AI vs. AI is the current paradigm, evidently.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
An AI-Powered Cyberattack Is Self-Replicating
Hackers use AI to generate attack code targeting AI infrastructure, and then getting compromised AI systems to find others to attack, researchers warn in a new report.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
NEW - Hackers started using large language models to code up attacks on systems running a popular AI orchestration tool.
They then used those hacked AI systems to look for other vulnerable AI servers.
Human + AI vs. AI is the current paradigm, evidently.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
They then used those hacked AI systems to look for other vulnerable AI servers.
Human + AI vs. AI is the current paradigm, evidently.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
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In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
⚡️Data centers, crypto mining to push electricity costs even higher in 2026
🚘 Tesla’s engineering exodus
🚛 Helping the electric truck market expand #renewableenergy #climate www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
⚡️Data centers, crypto mining to push electricity costs even higher in 2026
🚘 Tesla’s engineering exodus
🚛 Helping the electric truck market expand #renewableenergy #climate www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
Data Centers, Crypto Mining To Push Electricity Costs Higher In 2026
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Tesla’s engineering exodus and helping the electric truck market expand
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November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In the latest Current Climate newsletter:
⚡️Data centers, crypto mining to push electricity costs even higher in 2026
🚘 Tesla’s engineering exodus
🚛 Helping the electric truck market expand #renewableenergy #climate www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
⚡️Data centers, crypto mining to push electricity costs even higher in 2026
🚘 Tesla’s engineering exodus
🚛 Helping the electric truck market expand #renewableenergy #climate www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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Recursion’s incoming CEO Najat Khan needs to prove that AI drug development can pay off. New from me for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
Recursion’s Incoming CEO Needs To Prove That AI Drug Development Can Pay Off
After a challenging 12 years trying to use AI to create new medicines, cofounder Chris Gibson stepped down as CEO last week. Can R&D chief and new CEO Najat Khan turn it around?
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November 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Recursion’s incoming CEO Najat Khan needs to prove that AI drug development can pay off. New from me for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
ICYMI, there was a lot of interesting science and tech in the latest edition of my newsletter - including a new path to Mars, optical chips for AI and more. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one!
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November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
ICYMI, there was a lot of interesting science and tech in the latest edition of my newsletter - including a new path to Mars, optical chips for AI and more. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one!
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