The Download: How to store energy underground, and what you may not know about Trump’s AI Action Plan

—OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent explains how it passes a common internet security checkpoint designed to catch bots just like it, ...
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Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

Cumbersome and explosive In the early days of IVF, embryos earmarked for storage were slow-frozen. This technique involves gradually lowering ...
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The Download: How China’s universities approach AI, and the pitfalls of welfare algorithms

Just two years ago, students in China were told to avoid using AI for their assignments. At the time, to ...
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What role should oil and gas companies play in climate tech?

Standing on top of a drilling rig in the backyard of Nabors’s headquarters, I couldn’t stop thinking about the role ...
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The deadly saga of the controversial gene therapy Elevidys

In the days since, the company has acquiesced. But its reputation has already been hit. And the events have dealt ...
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The Download: Saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat

Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling ...
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Trump’s AI Action Plan is a distraction

On Wednesday, President Trump issued three executive orders, delivered a speech, and released an action plan, all on the topic ...
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Google DeepMind’s new AI can help historians understand ancient Latin inscriptions

To do this, Aeneas takes in partial transcriptions of an inscription alongside a scanned image of it. Using these, it ...
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Fighting forever chemicals and startup fatigue

Megan Tatum: From MIT Technology Review, I’m Megan Tatum. This is Business Lab, the show that helps business leaders make ...
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Five things you need to know about AI right now

3. AI is power hungry and getting hungrier. You’ve probably heard that AI is power hungry. But a lot of ...
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