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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The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in ...
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A brief history of “three-parent babies”
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that ...
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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the ...
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