The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep
Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling party has wanted to seize Taiwan for ...
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Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies
Reagan, by all accounts, believed that SDI would be the ultimate tool of peace for all nations, and he even ...
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The Download: affordable EV trucks, and Russia’s latest internet block
One more thing How environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world Environmental DNA is a ...
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The road to artificial general intelligence
Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in ...
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The Download: A quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government
Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of atoms in ...
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The Download: Meet the judges using AI, and GPT-5’s health promises
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes that humans miss has been on full display in the US legal ...
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Sam Altman and the whale
But where is the transition from the BlackBerry keyboard to the touch-screen iPhone? Where is the assisted GPS and the ...
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This quantum radar could image buried objects
The glass cell that serves as the radar’s quantum component is full of cesium atoms kept at room temperature. The ...
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The Download: GPT-5 is here, and Intel’s CEO drama
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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The greenhouse gases we’re not accounting for
Researchers around the world set to work unraveling the mystery, reviewing readings from satellites, aircraft, and greenhouse-gas monitoring stations. They ...
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