Salesforce Executive Leads With a Beginner’s Mind
This article is part of our Women and Leadership special report that coincides with global events in March celebrating the...
Playing Infinite Craft Is Like Peering Into an A.I.’s Brain
Fuse “Water” and “Water” to get a “Lake.” Add “Fire” to “Mountain” to create “Volcano.” Combine “Titanic” and “Poison Ivy”...
The SEC’s new climate rules were a missed opportunity to accelerate corporate action
Investor efforts to evaluate carbon emissions, decarbonization plans, and climate risks through ESG (environmental, social, and governance) rating schemes have...
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster
More than three months after OpenAI’s board of directors briefly ousted Sam Altman, the chief executive of the high-profile artificial...
Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons
Dario Amodei, chief executive of the high-profile A.I. start-up Anthropic, told Congress last year that new A.I. technology could soon...
The Download: organoid uses, and open source voting machines
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections While vendors pitched their latest voting machines in Concord,...
A plan to bring down drug prices could threaten America’s technology boom
All told, the law sparked a national innovation renaissance that continues to this day. In 2002, the Economist dubbed it...
The many uses of mini-organs
An ultrasound, for example, might reveal that a fetus’s kidneys are smaller than they should be, but absent a glaring...
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections
Back in Concord, Adida appeared to be persuasive to the public at large — or at least those invested enough...
The Download: hydropower’s rocky path ahead, and how to reverse falling birth rates
Hydropower is one of the world’s largest sources of renewable electricity.But last year, weather conditions caused hydropower to fall short...
The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.
Research by Susan Lee.The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad...
Emissions hit a record high in 2023. Blame hydropower.
But last year, weather conditions caused hydropower to fall short in a major way, with generation dropping by a record...
The Download: AI comics, and US tensions with China over EVs
—Will Douglas Heaven Thirteen years ago, as an assignment for a journalism class, I wrote a stupid short story about...
Chinese EVs have entered center stage in US-China tensions
Last Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would investigate the security risks posed by Chinese-made smart cars, which could “collect...
I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
The narrator sits on the floor and eats breakfast with the cats. LORE MACHINE / WILL DOUGLAS HEAVEN After more than...
The Download: rise of the robots, and what organoids can teach us
—This is an excerpt from a new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT...
Nobody knows how AI works
Recently we’ve seen some AI failures on a far bigger scale. In the latest (hilarious) gaffe, Google’s Gemini refused to...
The robots are coming. And that’s a good thing.
What if we could throw our sight, hearing, touch, and even sense of smell to distant locales and experience these...
Roundtables: The AI Economy
The AI EconomySpeakers: Mat Honan, Editor in chief and David Rotman, Editor at large There’s no doubt that generative AI...
Roundtables: How should we regulate AI?
How should we regulate AI?Speakers: Melissa Heikkilä, Senior reporter for AI and Charlotte Jee, News editor There’s little doubt that...