The Download: Tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots
A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person ...
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Roundtables: Inside OpenAI’s Empire with Karen Hao
Recorded on June 30, 2025 AI journalist Karen Hao’s book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, ...
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The Download: Meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI
When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services, ...
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The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects
In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering ...
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We’re learning more about what weight-loss drugs do to the body
We know they can suppress appetite, lower blood sugar, and lead to dramatic weight loss. We also know that they ...
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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a ...
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Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
“We haven’t designed or validated AlphaGenome for personal genome prediction, a known challenge for AI models,” Google said in a ...
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The Download: Introducing the Power issue
Introducing: the Power issue Energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority ...
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Crop signals | MIT Technology Review
Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients, but usually these signals ...
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The Download: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first pictures, and reframing privacy
The first spectacular images taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released for the world to peruse: a ...
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