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The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava
One more thing Adventures in the genetic time machine An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the…
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The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Numerous researchers whose grants were terminated didn’t respond to inquiries from MIT Technology Review or…
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Fueling seamless AI at scale
Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI.…
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The Download: sycophantic LLMs, and the AI Hype Index
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
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This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us
It’s hard to assess how sycophantic AI models are because sycophancy comes in many forms.…
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The Download: The next anti-drone weapon, and powering AI’s growth
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea,…
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What will power AI’s growth?
As I discovered while I continued that line of reporting, building new nuclear plants isn’t…
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This giant microwave may change the future of war
As for cost, each Army Leonidas unit currently runs in the “low eight figures,” Lowery…
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This startup wants to make more climate-friendly metal in the US
The star of Magrathea’s process is an electrolyzer, a device that uses electricity to split…
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The AI Hype Index: College students are hooked on ChatGPT
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI…