The Download: Solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued

Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. ...
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How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change—for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects nations ...
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Exclusive eBook: Aging Clocks & Understanding Why We Age

In this exclusive subscriber-only eBook, you’ll learn about a new method that scientists have uncovered to look at the ways ...
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The State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030

(As part of this series, join MIT Technology Review’s editor in chief, Mat Honan, and editor at large, David Rotman, ...
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How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources

In the case of Big Blind, this prospecting information gave the company enough confidence to purchase a federal lease, allowing ...
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The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination

The day after the campaign launched, Sadeghi and I had briefly sparred online. He’d been on X showing off a ...
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Harnessing human-AI collaboration for an AI roadmap that moves beyond pilots

The central challenge, then, lies in rethinking how people, processes, and technology work together. Across industries as different as customer ...
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AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements

“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at ...
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Accelerating VMware migrations with a factory model approach

Take VMware migrations as an example. For years, these projects resembled custom production jobs—bespoke efforts that often took many months ...
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OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior

Chains of thought are like scratch pads that models use to break down tasks, make notes, and plan their next ...
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