GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites
Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, some Chinese speakers started to notice that...
The Download: cuddly robots to help dementia, and what Daedalus taught us
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How cuddly robots could change dementia care
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Roundtables: Why thermal batteries are so hot right now
Recorded on May 16, 2024 Why thermal batteries are so hot right now Speakers: Casey Crownhart,...
Unlocking the trillion-dollar potential of generative AI
Generative AI is poised to unlock trillions in annual economic value across industries. This rapidly evolving...
The Download: rapid DNA analysis for disasters, and supercharged AI assistants
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This grim but revolutionary DNA technology is changing how we respond to mass disasters
Seven days No matter who he called—his mother, his father, his brother, his cousins—the phone would...
Last summer was the hottest in 2,000 years. Here’s how we know.
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A wave of retractions is shaking physics
Recent highly publicized scandals have gotten the physics community worried about its reputation—and its future. Over...
OpenAI and Google are launching supercharged AI assistants. Here’s how you can try them out.
This week, Google and OpenAI both announced they’ve built supercharged AI assistants: tools that can converse...
Optimizing the supply chain with a data lakehouse
When a commercial ship travels from the port of Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia to Tokyo...
The Download: Google’s new AI agent, and our tech pessimism bias
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Hong Kong is safe from China’s Great Firewall—for now
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Technology is probably changing us for the worse—or so we always think
MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws lessons for...
Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent
Google is set to introduce a new system called Astra later this year and promises that...
The Download: OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and what’s coming at Google I/O
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What to expect at Google I/O
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OpenAI’s new GPT-4o lets people interact using voice or video in the same model
OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI model that you can communicate with in...
The Download: the future of chips, and investing in US AI
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What’s next in chips
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Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI
The global race for computational power is well underway, fueled by a worldwide boom in artificial...
AI systems are getting better at tricking us
A wave of AI systems have “deceived” humans in ways they haven’t been explicitly trained to...
Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military
It’s a hell of a time to have a conscience if you work in tech. The...
The Download: mapping the human brain, and a Hong Kong protest anthem crackdown
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The burgeoning field of brain mapping
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Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its ban of a popular protest song
It wasn’t exactly surprising when on Wednesday, May 8, a Hong Kong appeals court sided with...
Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain
A team led by scientists from Harvard and Google has created a 3D, nanoscale-resolution map of...
The Download: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla’s EV charging meltdown
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Why EV charging needs more than Tesla
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Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life
Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict...
The top 3 ways to use generative AI to empower knowledge workers
Though generative AI is still a nascent technology, it is already being adopted by teams across...
Multimodal: AI’s new frontier
Multimodality is a relatively new term for something extremely old: how people have learned about the...
The Download: deepfakes of the dead, and why it’s time to embrace fake meat
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China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead
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The way whales communicate is closer to human language than we realized
Sperm whales are fascinating creatures. They possess the biggest brain of any species, six times larger...
Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up about...
How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meat
Fixing our collective meat problem is one of the trickiest challenges in addressing climate change—and for...
The Download: synthetic cow embryos, and AI jobs of the future
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Scientists are trying to get cows pregnant with synthetic embryos
It was a cool morning at the beef teaching unit in Gainesville, Florida, and cow number...
The Download: the cancer vaccine renaissance, and working towards a decarbonized future
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Cancer vaccines are having a renaissance
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The Download: Sam Altman on AI’s killer function, and the problem with ethanol
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Three takeaways about the current state of batteries
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Why new ethanol aviation fuel tax subsidies aren’t a clear climate win
Eliminating carbon pollution from aviation is one of the most challenging parts of the climate puzzle,...
Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function
A number of moments from my brief sit-down with Sam Altman brought the OpenAI CEO’s worldview...
The Download: mysterious radio energy from outer space, and banning TikTok
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The depressing truth about TikTok’s impending ban
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Inside the quest to map the universe with mysterious bursts of radio energy
When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of...
Roundtables: Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware
Recorded on April 30, 2024 Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware Speakers: James O’Donnell,...
The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives
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