There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race
Fortunately, a glimmer of hope for a responsible approach to AI collaboration is appearing now as Donald Trump recently posted on...
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A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor
While the reactions tend to go faster at high temperature and pressure, the researchers found that ammonia production could be...
The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention
Finding and diagnosing cancer is all about spotting patterns. Radiologists use x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging to illuminate tumors, and...
Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer
In theory, artificial intelligence should be great at helping out. “Our job is pattern recognition,” says Andrew Norgan, a pathologist and...
The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push
Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will...
The second wave of AI coding is here
Zencoder has hired a bunch of search engine veterans to help it build a tool that can analyze large codebases...
OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science
Although genetic engineers have ways to direct evolution of molecules in the lab, they can usually test only so many...
The Download: how to save social media, and “leftover” embryos
—Eli Pariser & Deepti Doshi Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a...
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
At the core of Bluesky’s philosophy is the idea that instead of being centralized in the hands of one person...
Deciding the fate of “leftover” embryos
No one knows for sure how many embryos are frozen in storage tanks, but the figure is thought to be...
The Download: what’s next for Neuralink, and Meta’s language translation AI
In November, a young man named Noland Arbaugh announced he’d be livestreaming from his home for three days straight. His...
Interest in nuclear power is surging. Is it enough to build new reactors?
In much of the world (China being a notable exception), building new nuclear capacity has historically been expensive and slow....
What to expect from Neuralink in 2025
Robot arm Late last year, Neuralink opened a companion study through which it says some of its existing implant volunteers...
Meta’s new AI model can translate speech from more than 100 languages
“Meta has done a great job having a breadth of different things they support, like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, even automatic speech...
Fueling the future of digital transformation
Luis: Yeah, that's a great question. I have no doubt that the energy business is changing and will continue to...
The Download: China’s marine ranches, and fast-learning robots
A short ferry ride from the port city of Yantai, on the northeast coast of China, sits Genghai No. 1,...
Training robots in the AI-powered industrial metaverse
For example, Siemens’ SIMATIC Robot Pick AI expands on this vision of adaptability, transforming standard industrial robots—once limited to rigid,...
The Download: the future of nuclear power, and fact checking Mark Zuckerberg
While nuclear reactors have been generating power around the world for over 70 years, the current moment is one of...
What’s next for nuclear power
Much of the funding and industrial activity in advanced reactors is centered in the US, where several companies are close...
Here’s our forecast for AI this year
There are a couple other things I’ll be watching closely in 2025. One is how little the major AI players—namely...
