Your guide to talking about climate tech over the holidays
The volume of mining is even higher if you take into account that some minerals are present in pretty low...
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The Download: chaos at OpenAI, and building a better power grid
1 Sam Altman is CEO of OpenAI againAnd he’s got a new board, to boot. (WP $) + Altman’s relationship with...
This Chinese map app wants to be a super app for everything outdoors
Amap, for example, is one of the most widely used map and navigation apps in China today. But when I...
Four ways AI is making the power grid faster and more resilient
Currently, Qiu’s team is developing a model to forecast power outages by incorporating factors like weather, geography, and even income...
The Download: OpenAI’s dramatic breakdown, and Meta’s transparency library
The past few days have been a fever dream in the AI world. The board of OpenAI, the world’s hottest...
The 2024 35 Innovators Under 35 competition is now open for nominations
We’ve been publishing a list of young innovators every year for more than two decades now. Past winners include Andrew Ng,...
Meta is giving researchers more access to Facebook and Instagram data
Recent moves by regulators, particularly in the European Union, may have pushed Meta’s hand with mandates for greater transparency. The...
What’s next for OpenAI
Of course, that was what he said in September. With top talent now jumping ship, OpenAI’s future is far less...
The Download: digital hide-and-seek, and AI for African languages
A controversial US surveillance program is up for renewal. Critics are speaking out. A debate is raging about the renewal...
A controversial US surveillance program is up for renewal. Critics are speaking out.
What do the critics of Section 702 say? Of particular concern is that while the program intends to target people...
This viral game in China reinvents hide-and-seek for the digital age
The “cat-and-mouse game,” as it’s usually referred to locally, has gone viral in China this year, drawing thousands of people...
This company is building AI for African languages
The tool can be used on its own or integrated into existing AI tools like ChatGPT and online conversational chatbots....
The Download: what is death, and jailbreaking generative AI
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post...
The pain is real. The painkillers are virtual reality.
That’s why I was so excited to read about Smileyscope, a VR device for kids that recently received FDA clearance....
Text-to-image AI models can be tricked into generating disturbing images
Their work, which they will present at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May next year, shines a...
The Biggest Questions: What is death?
To do so, though, we need to reconsider how we conceive of and approach life and death. Rather than thinking...
The Download: defining AGI, and making sense of the complicated universe
He also took to the stage yesterday speaking to developers at Microsoft Ignite, explaining all the ways in which devs...
2023 Global Cloud Ecosystem
The cloud, fundamentally a tool for cost and resource efficiency, has long enabled companies and countries to organize around digital-first...
What’s coming next for fusion research
The aftermath After the first successful demonstration of net energy gain, “the first priority was to repeat it,” Budil said....
The Biggest Questions: Why is the universe so complex and beautiful?
This tedious cosmic landscape exists because the universe really was boring once. Shortly after the Big Bang, and for hundreds...