AI is driving this market.

https://thenextweb.com/news/marvel-fusion-breaks-ground-on-150m-laser-facility-in-colorado

Marvel Fusion breaks ground on $150M laser facility in Colorado

German startup Marvel Fusion and Colorado State University have broken ground on a $150M laser facility in a bid to commercialise fusion energy.

Dubbed ATLAS, the facility will use three ultra-high intensity lasers to fire 7 petawatts of power — over 5,000 times the electrical generation capacity of the US — at a target roughly the width of a human hair.  

The blast will last approximately 100 quadrillionths of a second. However, it will produce enough heat and pressure to fuse atoms together, initiating the same reaction that powers the Sun and stars.

Tools & Techniques. Useful as an evidence gatherer?

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/

Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 1/10th of a cent

The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.

I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of the numbers out one at a time, so I decided to try something different: could I record a screen capture while browsing around my Gmail account and then extract the numbers from that video using Google Gemini?

This turned out to work incredibly well.