The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans
—Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in ...
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The Download: How AI could improve the safety of construction sites, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao
More than 1,000 construction workers die on the job each year in the US, making it the most dangerous industry ...
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How generative AI could help make construction sites safer
Answers to multiple questions (Does the person on the ladder have three points of contact? Are they using the ladder ...
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The Download: Tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots
A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person ...
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Roundtables: Inside OpenAI’s Empire with Karen Hao
Recorded on June 30, 2025 AI journalist Karen Hao’s book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, ...
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The Download: Meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI
When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services, ...
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The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects
In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering ...
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We’re learning more about what weight-loss drugs do to the body
We know they can suppress appetite, lower blood sugar, and lead to dramatic weight loss. We also know that they ...
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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a ...
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Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
“We haven’t designed or validated AlphaGenome for personal genome prediction, a known challenge for AI models,” Google said in a ...
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