Your future air conditioner might act like a battery
New cooling technologies that incorporate energy storage could help by charging themselves when renewable electricity is available and demand is...
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Google is finally taking action to curb non-consensual deepfakes
Though terrible, Swift’s deepfakes did perhaps more than anything else to raise awareness about the risks and seem to have...
A playbook for crafting AI strategy
While these prognostications may prove true, today’s businesses are finding major hurdles when they seek to graduate from pilots and...
The Download: the risks of addictive AI, and hydrogen bikes’ limitations
—Zeyi Yang The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Tech stocks...
Hydrogen bikes are struggling to gain traction in China
It’s a strategy that’s worked: These bikes have been more readily accepted by local governments. In 2022, Youon sold 2,000...
We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’
Once we understand the psychological dimensions of AI companionship, we can design effective policy interventions. It has been shown that...
The Download: making tough decisions with AI, and the significance of toys
—Jessica Hamzelou This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life care....
A personalized AI tool might help some reach end-of-life decisions—but it won’t suit everyone
Moore has worked as a clinical ethicist in hospitals in both Australia and the US, and she says she has...
The Download: AI’s end of life decisions, and green investing
End-of-life decisions can be extremely upsetting for surrogates—the people who have to make those calls on behalf of another person....
End-of-life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help?
Wendler has been working on ways to help surrogates make these kinds of decisions. Over 10 years ago, he developed...
Why investors care about climate tech’s green premium
I’ve been thinking more about the financial piece of climate innovation since my colleague James Temple sat down for a...
Reimagining cloud strategy for AI-first enterprises
Realizing AI’s full potential on a mass scale will require more than just executives’ enthusiasm; becoming a truly AI-first enterprise...
The Download: ethics in physics, and talking to ChatGPT
—Frances Houle, Kate Kirby, Laura Greene & Michael Marder In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims...
A controversial Chinese CRISPR scientist is still hopeful about embryo gene-editing. Here’s why.
Last Thursday, JK, who was released from prison in 2022, sat down with Antonio and Mat Honan, our editor in...
The US physics community is not done working on trust
Alas, a pattern of similar behavior has been known for at least two decades. The history of such deceptions led...
OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT bot that you can talk to
The voice mode is powered by OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model, which combines voice, text, and vision capabilities. To gather feedback,...
The Download: rebuilding economic security, and solving math problems
—Edlyn V. Levine is CEO and co-founder of a stealth-mode technology start up and an affiliate at MIT Sloan School...
How the US and its allies can rebuild economic security
The missing middle of technology investment—insufficient funding for commercial production—is evident in each and every one of these failures, but...
How machines that can solve complex math problems might usher in more powerful AI
But the news item that really stood out to me was one that didn’t get as much attention as it...
The Download: the future of CRISPR babies, and investing in climate tech
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned...
