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Miles Brundage raises the question of whether the AI industry is entering a "Carbon-era," linking to an external article for further discussion.

Google DeepMind introduces ForTy, a system that classifies every 10x10m patch of land on Earth into distinct forest and tree-crop types, highlighting how untouched natural forests store far more carbon and support more biodiversity than single-species timber plantations.

NASA's Perseverance rover detected complex macromolecular carbon on the surface of a Martian rock at Bright Angel, the shallowest such detection of organic matter on Mars. The carbon's origin remains unclear, but on Earth it would suggest biological activity.