Three things to know as the dust settles from DeepSeek
Within AI, though, what impact is DeepSeek likely to have in the longer term? Here are three seeds DeepSeek has...
World
Roundtables: What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI
Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor, Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor, and Caiwei Chen, China reporter.The tech world is abuzz...
Anthropic has a new way to protect large language models against jailbreaks
Most large language models are trained to refuse questions their designers don’t want them to answer. Anthropic’s LLM Claude will...
The Download: following DeepSeek’s lead, and OpenAI’s new research agent
DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all In the week or so since DeepSeek became a...
OpenAI’s new agent can compile detailed reports on practically any topic
OpenAI claims the tool represents a significant step toward its overarching goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) that matches...
DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all
Add the fact that other tech firms, inspired by DeepSeek’s approach, may now start building their own similar low-cost reasoning...
OpenAI releases its new o3-mini reasoning model for free
These types of models are most effective at solving complex problems, so if you have any PhD-level math problems you’re...
How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow its lead
And on the hardware side, DeepSeek has found new ways to juice old chips, allowing it to train top-tier models...
The Download: measuring vaccine hesitancy, and the rise of DeepSeek
This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US’s health agencies, has been facing questions...
How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it
Theirs is not the first vaccine hesitancy scale out there—similar questionnaires have been developed by others, often focusing on parents’...
The Download: climate tech under Trump, and scaling up quantum computing
1 Trump advisers were blindsided by Elon Musk’s team’s offer to federal workersOfficials weren’t consulted about plans to induce civil...
Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump
Even if the order is temporary or doesn’t hold up in court, it could be enough to chill investment in...
This quantum computer built on server racks paves the way to bigger machines
But this work, which the company published last week in Nature, is just a first step toward that vision. Aurora...
The Download: mice with two dads, and Meta’s fact-checking challenges
MIT Technology Review Narrated: Is this the end of animal testing? Animal studies are notoriously bad at identifying human treatments....
Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking
Enlisting volunteers is how moderation started on the Internet, long before social media giants realized that centralized efforts were necessary....
Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR
“It’s exciting,” says Kotaro Sasaki, a developmental biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the work....
The Download: DeepSeek forces a reality check, and robotaxis’ future
Just a week in, the AI sector has already seen its first battle of wits under the new Trump administration....
AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check
Still, the model poses a threat to the bottom line of certain players in Big Tech. Why pay for an...
The Download: China’s DeepSeek, and useful quantum computing
However, history shows that brilliant people are not immune to making mistakes. Huang’s predictions miss the mark, both on the...
Useful quantum computing is inevitable—and increasingly imminent
And that means that we need quantum computers. They afford us the opportunity to shift from a world of discovery...
