How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
Tech giants like Alibaba and ByteDance, as well as a handful of startups with deep-pocketed investors, dominate the Chinese AI...
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The Download: OpenAI’s agent, and what to expect from robotics
What’s new: After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is a web app that...
The US withdrawal from the WHO will hurt us all
“Diseases don’t stick to national boundaries, hence this decision is not only concerning for the US, but in fact for...
What’s next for robots
Liphardt has been experimenting with building and modifying robots for years, and when he brings his “dog” out in public,...
OpenAI launches Operator—an agent that can use a computer for you
Like Anthropic’s Computer Use and Google DeepMind’s Mariner, Operator takes screenshots of a computer screen and scans the pixels to...
The Download: US WHO exit risks, and underground hydrogen
On January 20, his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US...
This is what might happen if the US withdraws from the WHO
McKee thinks that the loss of funding will also affect efforts to eradicate polio, and to control outbreaks of mpox...
Why the next energy race is for underground hydrogen
I’ve been thinking about underground resources a lot this week, since I’ve been reporting a story about a new startup,...
Implementing responsible AI in the generative age
Validity and reliability Safety Security and resiliency Accountability and transparency Explainability and interpretability Privacy Fairness with mitigation of harmful bias ...
The Download: OpenAI’s lobbying, and making ammonia below the Earth’s surface
OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone,...
OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold
This new AI energy race is inseparable from the positioning of AI as essential for national security and US competitiveness...
There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race
Fortunately, a glimmer of hope for a responsible approach to AI collaboration is appearing now as Donald Trump recently posted on...
A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor
While the reactions tend to go faster at high temperature and pressure, the researchers found that ammonia production could be...
The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention
Finding and diagnosing cancer is all about spotting patterns. Radiologists use x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging to illuminate tumors, and...
Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer
In theory, artificial intelligence should be great at helping out. “Our job is pattern recognition,” says Andrew Norgan, a pathologist and...
The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push
Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will...
The second wave of AI coding is here
Zencoder has hired a bunch of search engine veterans to help it build a tool that can analyze large codebases...
OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science
Although genetic engineers have ways to direct evolution of molecules in the lab, they can usually test only so many...
The Download: how to save social media, and “leftover” embryos
—Eli Pariser & Deepti Doshi Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a...
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
At the core of Bluesky’s philosophy is the idea that instead of being centralized in the hands of one person...
