Joy Buolamwini: “We’re giving AI companies a free pass”
I can tell Buolamwini finds the cover amusing. She takes a picture of it. Times have changed a lot since...
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Amazon Earnings Call: Best Quarter Since 2021, But Cloud Division Underwhelms
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The Download: OpenAI’s top scientist on AGI, and gene therapy to restore hearing
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and chief scientist, is no longer focusing on building the next generation of his company’s flagship...
How scientists are being squeezed to take sides in the conflict between Israel and Palestine
On October 7, Hamas—the organization in command of the Gaza Strip, and which is designated a terrorist group by the...
Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment
Shu also thinks the treatment can be made more potent. But already, he says, the children’s hearing improved, on average,...
Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI
It’s a great story—it just might not be true. Sutskever insists he bought those first GPUs online. But such myth-making...
Alphabet Stock Sinks Despite Lofty Earnings – Expectations Leaves Wall Street Disappointed
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The Download: gene-editing HIV, and how to destroy PFAS
The news: The gene-editing technology CRISPR has been used to change the genes of human babies, to modify animals, and...
AI-powered 6G networks will reshape digital interactions
Communication and tech companies are already planning for 6G wireless networks, even though 5G has yet to be fully rolled...
How heat batteries promise a cleaner future in industrial manufacturing
“Reindustrialization of the American heartland” In my conversation with Justin Briggs, a cofounder and chief operating officer at Antora, he...
The race to destroy PFAS, the forever chemicals
The quest to reduce the amount of PFAS in the environment is what led me to an industrial park in...
GE Reports Stellar Earnings Ahead Of Breaking Into Two Companies
(Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey takeaways General Electric reported better-than-expected earnings and sales, raising its full-year guidance The company...
Three people were gene-edited in an effort to cure their HIV. The result is unknown.
Vaccine makers have also struggled because HIV kills the very immune cells meant to stop infection. But a decade ago,...
The Download: introducing the Hard Problems issue
For all of history we’ve turned to technology, again and again, to help us solve our hardest problems. It has...
The quest to re-create nature’s strongest material
The extraordinary mechanical properties of limpet teeth come from their composite structure: a flexible scaffold made of chitin (a common...
The grassroots push to digitize India’s most precious documents
Moreover, most public libraries aren’t freely accessible to the public. “Getting access to many of our public libraries is so...
Job titles of the future: carbon accountant
COURTESY PHOTO A growing field A relatively new occupation, carbon accounting involves collecting a wide variety of data from an...
Tapping into the ocean to combat climate change
Dean hopes to be involved in answering that question soon. At press time, WHOI was seeking EPA approval to undertake...
Shuffling the deck
Praneeth Namburi, PhD ’16 From neuroscience to biophysics of movement Twelve years ago, Praneeth Namburi made a detour in what...
Tuning in
In the first episode, released last spring, I interviewed Desirée Plata, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. We talked...
