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DEVELOPERS WANT MORE, MORE, MORE: THE 2024 RESULTS FROM STACK OVERFLOW'S ANNUAL DEVELOPER SURVEY

The 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey revealed that JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain the most popular technologies, while Rust and Markdown are the most admired. Developers are increasingly frustrated by technical debt at work, but they don't perceive AI as a threat to their jobs. Although 76% of developers are using or planning to use AI tools, many remain skeptical about their accuracy and ability to handle complex tasks.

GOOGLE CLAIMS MATH BREAKTHROUGH WITH PROOF-SOLVING AI MODELS

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 AI systems reportedly solved four out of the six problems from this year's International Mathematical Olympiad. AlphaProof uses reinforcement learning to train itself while AlphaGeometry 2 is powered by a Gemini-based language model. While the achievement is significant, the programs needed a lot more time to solve the problems than human contestants, and some of the problems needed to be manually translated by humans before the AI could understand them.

A TWICE-YEARLY INJECTION OFFERS 100% PROTECTION AGAINST HIV, STUDY SUGGESTS

Results from a recent study on Sunlenca, an HIV preventive injection, found it provided 100% protection against the disease. There were no infections among the 5,000 female study participants who received the shots. The shots still need to be tested in men before the drugmaker Gilead will seek permission to use it as a protection against infection. Sunlenca is already approved as a treatment for HIV in the US, Canada, Europe, and elsewhere. Gilead will pursue a voluntary licensing program that will allow a select number of generic producers to make the drug.

THE US NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IS STUCK. CAN THIS STARTUP GET IT ROLLING AGAIN?

The Nuclear Company came out of stealth last week by announcing its aim to deploy a 6-gigawatt nuclear fission reactor fleet by the mid-2030s. 6 gigawatts is more nuclear-generating capacity than the US has deployed in the last decade. The company plans to use proven licensed technology to construct a series of reactors across the US. Its founders believe that the slow deployment of nuclear power in the US is partly due to the industry's own making as it focuses too much on first-of-a-kind constructions rather than on a repeatable, fleet-scale approach.

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