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The Download: GPT-5 is here, and Intel’s CEO drama
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The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta aims to achieve smarter-than-human AI. He seems to have a recipe for achieving that goal,…
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The Download: OpenAI’s open-weight models, and the future of internet search
The news: OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. Unlike the models available through…
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The Download: AI agent infrastructure, and OpenAI’s ambitions
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI is…
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The Download: how fertility tech is changing families, and Trump’s latest tariffs
This week we welcomed a record-breaking baby to the world. Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived over the weekend, developed from an embryo…
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The Download: OpenAI’s future research, and US climate regulation is under threat
—Will Douglas Heaven For the past couple of years, OpenAI has felt like a one-man brand. With his showbiz style and fundraising glitz, CEO…
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The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat
Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s…
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The Download: gas and oil’s role in climate tech, and using AI to decipher ancient Latin
—Casey Crownhart After writing about Quaise, a geothermal startup that’s trying to commercialize new drilling technology, I've been…
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The Download: what’s next for AI agents, and how Trump protects US tech companies overseas
AI agents is a buzzy term that essentially refers to AI models and algorithms that can not only provide you with information, but take…
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The Download: how to run an LLM, and a history of “three-parent babies”
In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run anything useful on your own…
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The Download: three-person babies, and tracking “AI readiness” in the US
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.…
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The Download: Veo 3’s subtitles problem, and the future of our planet’s resources
Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end…
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The Download: California’s AI power plans, and and why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair
California's statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence to manage…
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The Download: cybersecurity’s shaky alert system, and mobile IVF
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.…
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The Download: flaws in anti-AI protections for art, and an AI regulation vibe shift
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.…
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The Download: a conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?
In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, journalist and author Karen Hao recently spoke about her…
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The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics
Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap has…
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The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans
—Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company…
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The Download: how AI could improve construction site safety, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao
More than 1,000 construction workers die on the job each year in the US, making it the most dangerous industry for fatal slips, trips, and…
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The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots
A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person tasked with…
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The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects
In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering a small AI…
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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still…
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The Download: Introducing the Power issue
Introducing: the Power issue Energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority in all sorts of…
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The Download: talking dirty with DeepSeek, and the risks and rewards of calorie restriction
AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite…