The Download: US WHO exit risks, and underground hydrogen

On January 20, his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US ...
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Understanding Emergent Capabilities in LLMs: Lessons from Biological Systems | by Javier Marin | Jan, 2025

How natural systems fundamental laws help explain AI’s unexpected abilities Image by Michaela. Pixabay.com Note: This article presents key findings ...
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3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead

It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, ...
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Dating Apps Promise to Remain a Rare Haven Following Trump’s Executive Order

Mere moments after his swearing in Monday, President Donald Trump made a proclamation to attendees of his inauguration: “It shall ...
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How Chinese company DeepSeek released a top AI reasoning model despite US sanctions

Tech giants like Alibaba and ByteDance, as well as a handful of startups with deep-pocketed investors, dominate the Chinese AI ...
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OpenAI’s Project Stargate sparks reactions from Microsoft, Meta CEOs
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“All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.” Rarely does a one-liner so perfectly capture the state of ...
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Science Has Spun Spider-Man’s Web-Slinging Into Reality

Slowly but surely, we are making good on the gadgets we imagined, as kids, that the future would hold. Penny ...
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School’s $1 Million AI Gun Detection System Fails to Detect Weapon Before Fatal School Shooting

“There’s no system that’s going to 100 percent capture everything a person has on them.” Gun Intended An expensive AI ...
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This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin

What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter? Well, for one ...
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The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster

Nicholas Shkoda/Getty Images You’d think that Microsoft’s marketing team would have learned something after last year’s shambolic rollout of the ...
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