The Download: abandoning carbon offsets, and creating new materials
In the fall of 2018, the University of California tasked a team of researchers with identifying projects from which it...
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The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets—and thinks you should, too
Direct cuts In 2013, the University of California pledged to achieve carbon neutrality across its campuses and health centers within...
Google DeepMind’s new AI tool helped create more than 700 new materials
GNoME can be described as AlphaFold for materials discovery, according to Ju Li, a materials science and engineering professor at...
The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101 million award
The intent isn’t to reverse aging per se, says Diamandis, but rather to restore some of the function we lose...
Augmenting the realities of work
So, for example. Right now, we do video meetings. It would be more interesting for some people to be able...
The Download: the year’s most-read climate stories, and Amazon’s chatbot
2023 has been a big year for climate news. Wildfires, floods and heatwaves displaced and killed thousands of people across...
Procurement in the age of AI
Influencing compliance spend. Procurement professionals aim to balance employees’ freedom to purchase the items they need with minimal intervention. However,...
The Download: COP28 controversy and the future of families
The United Arab Emirates is one of the world’s largest oil producers. It's also the site of this year’s UN...
Why the UN climate talks are a moment of reckoning for oil and gas companies
In order to be on track for net-zero emissions, the oil and gas industry will need to cut emissions from...
The Download: unpacking OpenAI Q* hype, and X’s financial woes
While we still don’t know all the details, there have been reports that researchers at OpenAI had made a “breakthrough”...
Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model
While we still don’t know all the details, there have been reports that researchers at OpenAI had made a “breakthrough”...
Finding value in generative AI for financial services
According to a McKinsey report, generative AI could add $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually in value to the global economy. The...
The Download: OpenAI’s wild year, and tech’s cult of personality
Few companies can say they’ve had more of a rollercoaster year than OpenAI. At the beginning of 2023, the world’s...
The Download: how to talk about climate tech, and Sam Altman’s past
Our climate reporter Casey Crownhart has been in the middle of plenty of heated conversations around the dinner table. And...
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...
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,...
