News from the woods #141 🐋

Business & Technology 👨‍💻

* Meta needs data centers to develop the AI it doesn’t have. So for now it’s building them as “tent cities”.

* There’s a jacket out there that makes water. One day we’ll go on a trek and won’t have to haul water with us!

* ChatGPT is losing its lead fairly fast. Will the upcoming “super-app” save it?

* Midjourney, known mainly for its AI images, is now trying to move into healthcare. It’s developing a full-body ultrasound scanner meant to create a 3D image of the body within a minute. Will it be another Theranos, or a real revolution?

Travel 🧳

* If you’re near Los Angeles, take a look inside this abandoned hospital.

* Here are the 40 best newly opened hotels in the world.

* If you’re feeling the heat, take a trip to Lapland…

Nature ⛰️

* Scientists have discovered (or rather re-mapped) a giant hidden network of underground fungi that stretches practically beneath the entire world and is seriously long.

* Beautiful photos from Antarctica.