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The Download: How people fall for pig butchering schemes, and saving glaciers
Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he…
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How to save a glacier
Minchew is among the researchers looking into potential plans to alter the future of glaciers.…
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Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there
This all means it’s up to the tech companies themselves to act on their own…
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The Download: China’s empty data centers, and OpenAI’s new practical image generator
3 The US government has hired a vaccine skeptic to conduct a major vaccine studyThe…
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The AI Hype Index: DeepSeek mania, vibe coding, and cheating at chess
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI…
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China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
Now, his WeChat feed and industry group chats tell a different story. Traders are more…
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OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enough for designers and advertisers
The new model makes progress on technical issues that have plagued AI image generators for…
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Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
Even if it all works, it may not be practical or economical to “grow” bodyoids,…
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Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan,…
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The Download: the dangers of AI agents, and ChatGPT’s effects on our wellbeing
—Margaret Mitchell, Avijit Ghosh, Sasha Luccioni, Giada Pistilli all work for Hugging Face, an open…