How battery-powered trailers could transform trucking
Range trailers can also significantly improve emissions of NOx pollutants, which are harmful for human health. In fact, they can...
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The Download: AI’s self-regulation promises, and predicting the weather
One year ago, seven leading AI companies—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—committed with the White House to a...
How’s AI self-regulation going?
But AI nerds may remember that exactly a year ago, on July 21, 2023, Biden was posing with seven top...
How to access Chinese LLM chatbots across the world
For users in the West, finding these Chinese models and trying them out can feel challenging, owing to language barriers...
AI companies promised to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?
RESULT: Good. This is an encouraging result overall. While watermarking remains experimental and is still unreliable, it’s still good to...
Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics
While new machine-learning techniques that predict weather by learning from years of past data are extremely fast and efficient, they...
The Download: technological complexity, and climate change Catan
The philosopher Karl Popper once argued that there are two kinds of problems in the world: clock problems and cloud...
How to fix a Windows PC affected by the global outage
The update was intended for CrowdStrike’s Falcon software, which is “endpoint detection and response” software designed to protect companies’ computer...
The Download: Windows’ CrowdStrike outage, and wildfire-tracking balloons
What’s happening? Windows PCs have crashed around the world, bringing airlines, major banks, TV broadcasters, healthcare providers and other businesses...
Balloons will surf wind currents to track wildfires
The balloons can hover over a fire for about 18 hours, using the whims of the atmosphere to stay in...
Why we need safeguards against genetic discrimination
“Genetic discrimination involves an individual or a group being negatively treated, unfairly profiled or harmed, relative to the rest of...
Building supply chain resilience with AI
The Canadian fertilizer company Nutrien, for example, operates two dozen manufacturing and processing facilities spread across the globe and nearly...
The Download: Falcon 9’s future, and Big Tech’s climate goals
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is one of the world’s safest, most productive rockets. But a rare engine malfunction on July 11...
Companies need to stop taking the easy way out on climate goals
Tech giants Amazon and Google both recently released news about their efforts to clean up their climate impact. Both were...
What’s next for SpaceX’s Falcon 9
What exactly went wrong last week remains a mystery. Still, experts agree the event can’t be brushed off. “‘Oh, it...
Transforming the energy industry through disruptive innovation
Building on the same example of PG&E, which I referenced earlier; through our collaboration, piece by piece progressively, we are...
The Download: Big Tech’s climate claims, and reducing your music streaming carbon footprint
As K-pop sweeps the world and accumulates a massive, devout fan base, these fans have been turning their power into...
Five ways to make music streaming better for the climate
One of the most interesting (and also successful) campaigns Kpop4planet has organized shines a light on the carbon footprint of...
Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims
The argument for RECs is that companies often can’t purchase a pure stream of clean electricity to power their operations,...
The Download: K-pop stans’ climate plans, and what AI isn’t
K-pop fans have for years been known for their incredible organizing power. As their numbers have grown around the world,...