The Download: Funding a CRISPR embryo startup, and bad news for clean cement
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Reddit is suing Anthropic Reddit claims the ...
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The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk has turned ...
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The Download: Reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things
One more thing A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? In the ...
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The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
One more thing Adventures in the genetic time machine An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study ...
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The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Numerous researchers whose grants were terminated didn’t respond to inquiries from MIT Technology Review or declined to comment, amid growing ...
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This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us
It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms. Previous research has tended to ...
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Fueling seamless AI at scale
Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most recent chapter, which ...
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This giant microwave may change the future of war
As for cost, each Army Leonidas unit currently runs in the “low eight figures,” Lowery told me. Defense contract pricing ...
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The Download: The next anti-drone weapon, and powering AI’s growth
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed ...
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The AI Hype Index: College students are hooked on ChatGPT
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary ...
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