Plus: a judge has ruled against Elon Musk’s plans to prevent OpenAI to becoming a for-profit business This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games The news: Facing defeat in chess
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth As DeepSeek has emerged as a homegrown challenger to OpenAI, young people across the country have started using AI to revive fortune-telling practices
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Your most important customer may be AI Imagine you run a meal prep company that teaches people how to make simple and delicious food. When someone asks ChatGPT for a recommendation for
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Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back. Jules Rodriguez lost his voice in October of last year. His speech had been deteriorating since a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2020, but a tracheostomy to help him breathe dealt the final blow. Rodriguez and his wife, Maria Fernandez, who live
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper problem —Dan Hon is principal of Very Little Gravitas, where he helps turn around and modernize large and complex government services and products. In trying
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Plus: the US has halted parcel deliveries from China This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for smart glasses For every technological gadget that becomes a household name, there are dozens that never catch on. This year
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Plus: Elon Musk’s team has pinned its cost-cutting hopes on AI This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy We can put a good figure on how
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Plus: There’s no doubt that DeepSeek is sending data back to China This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check Just a week in, the AI sector has already seen its first
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Plus: Blue Origin’s rocket launch has been postponed This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos Millions of embryos created through IVF sit frozen in time, stored in cryopreservation tanks around
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The UK driverless-car startup Wayve is headed west. The firm’s cars learned to drive on the streets of London. But Wayve has announced that it will begin testing its tech in and around San Francisco as well, which brings a new challenge: Its AI will need to switch from driving on the left to driving
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Plus: Russian operatives are attempting to undermine the US Democrats online This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: The AI Hype Index There’s no denying that the AI industry moves fast. Each week brings a bold new announcement
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Plus: Meta isn’t treating political posts as a priority This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Intro to AI: a beginner’s guide to artificial intelligence from MIT Technology Review It feels as though AI is moving a million miles
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing Google’s new AI podcasting tool, called Audio Overview…
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer? Long-distance space travel can wreak havoc on human health…
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What the US can learn from the role of AI in other elections When the generative AI boom kicked off, one of the biggest concerns was that hyperrealistic deepfakes could be used to……
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI models let robots carry out tasks in unfamiliar environments What’s new: It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments they’ve never seen before…
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There are more than 120 AI bills in Congress right now More than 120 bills related to regulating artificial intelligence are currently floating around the US Congress…
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why we need an AI safety hotline —Kevin Frazier is an assistant professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and senior research fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of……
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roblox is launching a generative AI that builds 3D environments in a snap What’s new: Roblox has announced plans to roll out a generative AI tool that will let creators make whole 3D……
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