Google’s antitrust gut punch and the Trump wild card
First, some background. The case was first filed back in 2020. Then in August, Judge Amit Mehta ruled in favor...
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How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
Over time, Trump’s tariffs may indeed compel companies to bring more of their manufacturing operations back to the US and...
The Download: how OpenAI tests its models, and the ethics of uterus transplants
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI may launch a...
Who should get a uterus transplant? Experts aren’t sure.
In that first trial, Brännström’s team transplanted uteruses into nine women, each of whom had IVF to create and store...
How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models
When OpenAI tested DALL-E 3 last year, it used an automated process to cover even more variations of what users...
The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role
MIT Technology Review Narrated: The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom In late 2023, one of California’s...
China’s complicated role in climate change
This is a comment I get all the time on the topic of climate change, both in conversations and on...
Four ways to protect your art from AI
Artists and writers have launched several lawsuits against AI companies, arguing that their work has been scraped into databases for...
AI can now create a replica of your personality
Led by Joon Sung Park, a Stanford PhD student in computer science, the team recruited 1,000 people who varied by...
The Download: Clear’s identity ambitions, and the climate blame game
But assigning responsibility is complicated. These three visualizations help explain why. —Casey Crownhart Cyber Week Sale: subscriptions are half price!...
Who’s to blame for climate change? It’s surprisingly complicated.
Even then, though, there’s another factor to consider: population. Dividing a country’s total emissions by its population reveals how the...
Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport
The more Clear is able to reach into customers’ lives, the more valuable customer data it can collect. All user...
Roundtables: What’s Next for Mixed Reality: Glasses, Goggles, and More
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned,...
The Download: police AI, and mixed reality’s future
6 Robots still struggle to match warehouse workers on some tasksFor all the advances robots have made, picking things up...
How the largest gathering of US police chiefs is talking about AI
It bills itself as the largest gathering of police chiefs in the United States, where leaders from many of the...
The Download: Bluesky’s rapid rise, and harmful fertility stereotypes
I won’t spoil the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (although I should warn that it is not...
The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social
For example, Bluesky is great for breaking news because it does not deprioritize links and defaults to a social graph...
Why the term “women of childbearing age” is problematic
This lack of research goes some way to explaining why women are much more likely to experience side effects from...
The Download: diversifying AI voices, and a science-fiction glimpse into the future
The big storyHow environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world February 2024Environmental DNA is a...
How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverse
Ryakitimbo has collected voice data in Kiswahili in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She tells me she...
