The Download: Understanding deep matter, and AI jailbreak protection
This is our latest story to be turned into a MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we’re publishing each week on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to ...
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Supersonic planes are inching toward takeoff. That could be a problem.
Boom plans to start commercial operation with a scaled-up version of the XB-1, a 65-passenger jet called Overture, before the ...
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The Download: smart glasses in 2025, and China’s AI scene
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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Four Chinese AI startups to watch beyond DeepSeek
Honorable mentions Baichuan While many of its competitors chase scale and expansive application ranges, Baichuan AI, founded by industry veteran ...
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The Download: following DeepSeek’s lead, and OpenAI’s new research agent
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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Roundtables: What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI
What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor, Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor, and Caiwei ...
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How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow it
And on the hardware side, DeepSeek has found new ways to juice old chips, allowing it to train top-tier models ...
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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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