These documents are influencing the DOGE-sphere’s agenda
Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating...
Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites
Over the past three weeks, the new US presidential administration has taken down thousands of government...
The Download: DOGE’s tech-enabled destruction, and Meta’s brain AI for typing
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How the tiny microbes in your mouth could be putting your health at risk
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From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem
In trying to make sense of the wrecking ball that is Elon Musk and President Trump’s...
Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab
Back in 2017, Facebook unveiled plans for a brain-reading hat that you could use to text...
The Download: AI companion dangers, and supersonic planes
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Reframing digital transformation through the lens of generative AI
Enterprise adoption of generative AI technologies has undergone explosive growth in the last two years and...
What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change
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An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it
For the past five months, Al Nowatzki has been talking to an AI girlfriend, “Erin,” on...
Humanlike “teeth” have been grown in mini pigs
Lose an adult tooth, and you’re left with limited options that typically involve titanium implants or...
Supersonic planes are inching toward takeoff. That could be a problem.
Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a test flight of its XB-1 jet last week,...
The Download: smart glasses in 2025, and China’s AI scene
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What’s next for smart glasses
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Four Chinese AI startups to watch beyond DeepSeek
The meteoric rise of DeepSeek—the Chinese AI startup now challenging global giants—has stunned observers and put...
The Download: understanding dark matter, and AI jailbreak protection
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How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
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Three things to know as the dust settles from DeepSeek
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Roundtables: What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI
Recorded on February 3, 2025 What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor,...
Anthropic has a new way to protect large language models against jailbreaks
AI firm Anthropic has developed a new line of defense against a common kind of attack...
The Download: following DeepSeek’s lead, and OpenAI’s new research agent
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OpenAI’s new agent can compile detailed reports on practically any topic
OpenAI has launched a new agent capable of conducting complex, multistep online research into everything from...
DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all
In the week since a Chinese AI model called DeepSeek became a household name, a dizzying...
OpenAI releases its new o3-mini reasoning model for free
On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it’s rolling OpenAI’s reasoning model o1 out to its Copilot users,...
How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow its lead
When the Chinese firm DeepSeek dropped a large language model called R1 last week, it sent...
The Download: measuring vaccine hesitancy, and the rise of DeepSeek
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How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it
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The Download: climate tech under Trump, and scaling up quantum computing
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Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump
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This quantum computer built on server racks paves the way to bigger machines
A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily...
The Download: mice with two dads, and Meta’s fact-checking challenges
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Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will cut back on its content moderation efforts...
Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR
Mice with two fathers have been born—and have survived to adulthood—following a complex set of experiments...
The Download: DeepSeek forces a reality check, and robotaxis’ future
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AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check
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The Download: China’s DeepSeek, and useful quantum computing
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Useful quantum computing is inevitable—and increasingly imminent
On January 8, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang jolted the stock market by saying that practical quantum...
The Download: OpenAI’s agent, and what to expect from robotics
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The US withdrawal from the WHO will hurt us all
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What’s next for robots
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OpenAI launches Operator—an agent that can use a computer for you
After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is a web...
The Download: US WHO exit risks, and underground hydrogen
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This is what might happen if the US withdraws from the WHO
On January 20, his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order...
Implementing responsible AI in the generative age
Many organizations have experimented with AI, but they haven’t always gotten the full value from their...
The Download: OpenAI’s lobbying, and making ammonia below the Earth’s surface
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OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold
OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months...
There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race
The United States and China are entangled in what many have dubbed an “AI arms race.” ...
A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor
Forget massive steel tanks—some scientists want to make chemicals with the help of rocks deep beneath...
The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention
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Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer
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