AI was supposed to make police bodycams better. What happened?
Tassone claims that Truleo, which hit the market in 2021, can identify events like an officer frisking someone or reading...
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The Download: saving Louisiana from sinking, and the promise of thermal batteries
“If you were wondering what they're using to train GPT-5, well, now you know.” —John Levine, creator of a site...
How thermal batteries are heating up energy storage
Electrified Thermal Solutions is building thermal batteries that use thermally conductive bricks as both a heating element and a storage...
How to stop a state from sinking
VIRGINIA HANUSIK But some government officials and state engineers are hoping there is an alternative: elevation. The $6.8 billion Southwest...
The Download: a history of brainwashing, and America’s chipmaking ambitions
Zooming in further, there’s one particular type of insulating material placed between the chip and the structure beneath it; this...
The effort to make a breakthrough cancer therapy cheaper
It’s an attractive model. Demand for CAR-T often outstrips supply, leading to long wait times. “There is a growing tension...
A brief, weird history of brainwashing
Over the following years, in the wake of the Korean War, “brainwashing” grew into a catchall explanation for any kind...
This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant
Thintronics is promising a product purpose-built for the computing demands of the AI era—a suite of new materials that the...
Scaling individual impact: Insights from an AI engineering leader
Doing this well requires building a diverse network across the organization. Building and nurturing relationships in different functional areas is...
The Download: AI is making robots more helpful, and the problem with cleaning up pollution
November 2023Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you...
The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off
Because of the cutoff date, the study did not capture a more recent contributor to these trends. Starting in 2020,...
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Stretch weighs about 50 pounds. It has a small mobile base, a stick with a camera dangling off it, and...
Modernizing data with strategic purpose
This report seeks to understand organizations’ objectives for their data modernization projects and how they are implementing such initiatives. To...
The Download: generating AI memories, and China’s softening tech regulation
As a six-year-old growing up in Barcelona, Spain, during the 1940s, Maria would visit a neighbor’s apartment in her building...
Why China’s regulators are softening on its tech sector
So I was inspired after talking to Angela Huyue Zhang, a law professor in Hong Kong who’s coming to teach...
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed
So far Domestic Data Streamers has used the technique to preserve the memories of people in various migrant communities, including...
Open-sourcing generative AI
Explore more from Booz Allen Hamilton on the future of AI About the speakers Alison Smith, Director of Generative AI,...
Taking AI to the next level in manufacturing
Few technological advances have generated as much excitement as AI. In particular, generative AI seems to have taken business discourse...
The Download: how China plans to regulate AI
The way China regulates its tech industry can seem highly unpredictable. The government can celebrate the achievements of Chinese tech...
Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations—for now
Take Alibaba and Tencent as examples. Since the 2000s, the two tech giants have made hundreds of mergers and investments,...
