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This issue explores the many ways technology is transforming our relationships. What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list ... Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
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What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (246+ words) AI companies are making impressive mathematical strides. Human mathematicians are losing out. AI models now seem essential for making progress on the most important mathematical problems of our time, and solving them may demand resources only available at a couple…...
Danijar Hafner
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1263+ words) These innovators are finding high-impact ways to deploy AI and working to improve underlying models. He creates world models that train robots to navigate new spaces. While he was still a high school student in rural Germany, Danijar Hafner began…...
Jinyoung Seo
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1469+ words) This group is cleaning up some of the economy’s dirtiest sectors, including agriculture and heavy industry. He’s replacing nasty gas refrigerants with solid ones. Jinyoung Seo believes we can slash those emissions by shifting to cooling technology that transfers heat…...
The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
1+ week, 1+ day ago (740+ words) Plus: OpenAI has launched Astra, its most capable model yet. 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. —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the…...
The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem
1+ week, 4+ day ago (834+ words) Plus: reports of AI escaping users’ control nearly doubled in a month. 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. Startup Switch Bioworks is…...
AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (614+ words) Puzzles and games can reveal gaps in models’ smarts. Try your hand at these seven tests to see if you can outwit AI. Judged purely on its puzzling skills, AI is improving a lot—and quickly. In late 2024, a team…...
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
2+ week, 5+ day ago (704+ words) People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a…...
The next big thing in hydrogen could be underground
3+ week, 2+ day ago (595+ words) Is this the 21st-century gold rush? There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel in…...
Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot
3+ week, 3+ day ago (580+ words) Monitoring apps promise to keep young people safer online, but looking in on kids’ phones can backfire. Online safety experts say there’s a better way. Nearly one in five kids noted feeling watched or stripped of privacy. About one in…...
What Flock’s defenders are missing
3+ week, 5+ day ago (270+ words) As cities reconsider the technology, it’s worth asking how the company’s design choices have shaped the trade-off between solving crimes and protecting civil liberties. Flock, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the…...