DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all

Add the fact that other tech firms, inspired by DeepSeek’s approach, may now start building their own similar low-cost reasoning ...
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The Download: Measuring vaccine hesitancy, and the rise of DeepSeek

This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US’s health agencies, has been facing questions ...
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The Download: Climate tech under Trump, and scaling up quantum computing

1 Trump advisers were blindsided by Elon Musk’s team’s offer to federal workersOfficials weren’t consulted about plans to induce civil ...
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Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR

“It’s exciting,” says Kotaro Sasaki, a developmental biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the work. ...
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AI’s energy obsession gets a reality check

Still, the model poses a threat to the bottom line of certain players in Big Tech. Why pay for an ...
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The Download: China’s DeepSeek, and useful quantum computing

However, history shows that brilliant people are not immune to making mistakes. Huang’s predictions miss the mark, both on the ...
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This is what might happen if the US withdraws from the WHO

McKee thinks that the loss of funding will also affect efforts to eradicate polio, and to control outbreaks of mpox ...
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How Chinese company DeepSeek released a top AI reasoning model despite US sanctions

Tech giants like Alibaba and ByteDance, as well as a handful of startups with deep-pocketed investors, dominate the Chinese AI ...
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The Download: OpenAI’s agent, and what to expect from robotics

What’s new: After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is a web app that ...
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