The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
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The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming
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The Download: AI puzzles and a path to our nearest star system
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The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem
Startup Switch Bioworks is taking a new approach: using a genetic switch that allows microbes to establish themselves and grow...
GTA 6 Fans Are Bracing For One Massive Download
We're only a few months away from the November launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, and following the recent preview...
The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the chance to write...
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
1 Meta has promised to pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety caseThe company says it will...
The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
A surprising—maybe troubling—number of people who work in big tech also keep their kids at arm’s distance from technology. They...
The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai
Showcases like this event are important because they invite the public to experience robots up close. And exposure matters, as...
The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents
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The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
Later this year, Reflect Orbital plans to launch a test satellite that will extend an 18-by-18-meter mirror in orbit. The...
The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush
This is an area of research I’ve been fascinated by lately, so let’s take a look at the potential to...
The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
A new research project called the AI Observatory aims to fill in the gap. Its analysis shows many more sensitive...
The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”
Moxie is a robot—a 15-inch-tall device that looks a bit like a blue, legless astronaut. It belongs to a subset...
The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice
When we set out to talk to kids about AI, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected stories...
The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in...
The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Nvidia has secured $500...
The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
In 2024, Google DeepMind scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a neural network, AlphaFold, which predicts the structures...
The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI
What began as a relatively niche conspiracy theory from the far right was able to—and continues to—influence a wide range...
