Tackling AI risks: Your reputation is at stake
Risk is all about context Risk is all about context. In fact, one of the biggest risks is failing to...
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The Download: chatting with the politician behind the AI Act, and how to watch the eclipse
Dragoș Tudorache is one of the most important players in European AI policy. He is one of the two lead...
A conversation with Dragoș Tudorache, the politician behind the AI Act
A former interior minister, Tudorache is one of the most important players in European AI policy. He is one of...
The Download: our eclipse guide, and what you need to know about bird flu
On April 8, the moon will pass directly between Earth and the sun, creating a total solar eclipse across much...
New bird flu infections: Here’s what you need to know
But the rash of recent infections among livestock is unsettling. Last month, goats in Minnesota tested positive. And avian influenza...
How to safely watch and photograph the total solar eclipse
Before the eclipse begins, take the time to focus the camera exactly where you want the sun and moon to...
The Download: Harvard’s geoengineering failure, and extending nuclear plants’ lifetimes
In March 2017, at a small summit in Washington, DC, two Harvard professors, David Keith and Frank Keutsch, laid out...
Why the lifetime of nuclear plants is getting longer
Two main components determine a plant’s lifetime: the reactor pressure vessel and the containment structure, says Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor...
The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment
The basic concept behind solar geoengineering is that by spraying certain particles high above the planet, humans could reflect some...
The Download: fixing space weather-forecasting, and reopening a nuclear power plant
As the number of satellites in space grows, and as we rely on them for increasing numbers of vital tasks...
How to reopen a nuclear power plant
Step 2: Line up money and permission Support has poured in for Palisades, with the state of Michigan setting aside...
Threads is giving Taiwanese users a safe space to talk about politics
3. The US government is considering cutting the so-called de minimis exemption from import duties, which makes it cheap for...
The race to fix space-weather forecasting before next big solar storm hits
The satellite era has so far experienced only one major geomagnetic storm. Dubbed the Halloween storm because it pummeled Earth...
Purpose-built AI builds better customer experiences
Once the interaction begins, we can use data, artificial intelligence, to measure sentiment, customer sentiment. And in the course of...
The Download: inside chipmaking giant ASML, and why Taiwan loves Threads
On a drab Monday February morning in California, at the drab San Jose Convention Center, attendees of the SPIE Advanced...
Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan
Still, Threads’ popularity plummeted after its launch in July 2023. In Taiwan—like the rest of the world—many users left the...
Scaling customer experiences with data and AI
Andy: Yeah, it's a great question. I think today artificial intelligence is certainly capturing all of the buzz, but what...
How ASML took over the chipmaking chessboard
ASML Photolithographers have a limited set of tools at their disposal to make smaller designs, and for decades, the type...
A conversation with OpenAI’s first artist in residence
COURTESY OF ALEXANDER REBEN Reben is OpenAI’s first artist in residence. Officially, the appointment started in January and lasts three...
It’s easy to tamper with watermarks from AI-generated text
AI language models work by predicting the next likely word in a sentence, generating one word at a time on...
