The Download: Sam Altman on AI's killer function, and the problem with ethanol
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has a vision for how AI tools will become enmeshed in our daily lives. During ...
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The Download: mysterious radio energy from outer space, and banning TikTok
When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of energy that could cook ...
The Download: robotics' data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives
Roboticists believe that, using new AI techniques, they can unlock more capable robots that can move freely through unfamiliar environments ...
The Download: Inside the US defense tech aid package, and how AI is improving vegan cheese
After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President Joe Biden ...
The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy's implications for mining
Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them ...
The Download: Introducing the Build issue
Building is a popular tech industry motif—especially in Silicon Valley, where “Time to build” has become something of a call ...
The Download: the future of geoengineering, and how to make stronger, lighter materials
—Daniele Visioni is a climate scientist and assistant professor at Cornell University The public debate over whether we should consider ...
The Download: Generating AI memories, and China's softening tech regulation
As a six-year-old growing up in Barcelona, Spain, during the 1940s, Maria would visit a neighbor’s apartment in her building ...