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Why doctors should look for ways to prescribe hope
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The Download: China’s AI agent boom, and GPS alternatives
Last year, China saw a boom in foundation models, the do-everything large language models that underpin the AI revolution. This ...
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Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
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The Download: Funding a CRISPR embryo startup, and bad news for clean cement
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The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
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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
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