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The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
While corporations, including tech giants like Microsoft, are betting big on this technology, there are a few potential problems with BECCS, as my colleague James Temple laid out in...
The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess
In August Siddiqui made the controversial suggestion that parents who choose not to use genetic testing might be considered irresponsible. “Just be honest: you’re okay with your kid potentially...
Smucker goes to court to protect the design of its Uncrustables sandwiches
The J.M. Smucker Co. says it doesn’t have a problem with other companies selling their own prepackaged, crustless sandwiches like its own popular Smucker’s Uncrustables. They just have to...
What are the 2 categories of AI use and why do they matter?
Generative AI is evolving along two distinct tracks: on one side, savvy users are building their own retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, personal agents, or even small language models (SLMs)...
Why environmental resilience is the future of home design
In January 2025, Los Angeles suffered an unspeakable wildfire tragedy, destroying at least 17,000 structures, and with tens of thousands of people forced out of their homes. Almost immediately,...
The 3 personalities of AI adoption
“We are fully committed to AI adoption,” the CEO told me, proud of the company’s recent employee training initiatives. “But is AI just another tool in their toolbox, or...
Don’t believe the hype about college mayhem
It’s been a long, hot summer for America’s universities. Columbia, accused by the Trump administration of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, settled with the federal government...
Why Walmart will track its merchandise with millions of sensors starting this year
Walmart will be putting millions of sensors on its pallets across its supply chain chain, in a move that technology partner Wiliot is calling “the first large-scale deployment of...
BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group buys Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion
An investor group including BlackRock, Microsoft, and Nvidia is buying one of the world’s biggest data center operators with nearly 80 facilities in a deal worth $40 billion to...
Goodbye SEO, hello GEO
When you type a question into an AI search engine like ChatGPT or Google AI Mode and it comes up with an answer, that information comes from somewhere. Scouring...
