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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. The State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030 There are huge gulfs of opinion when it comes to predicting the near-future impacts of...
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. 4 technologies that didn’t make our 2026 breakthroughs list If you’re a longtime reader, you probably know that our newsroom selects 10...
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. AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements The news: Chatting with a politically biased AI model is more effective...
Shoplifters in the US could soon be chased down by drones The news: Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company has announced. Potential customers include businesses trying to curb shoplifting. How it...
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. AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers The news: Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted...
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. A pivotal meeting on vaccine guidance is underway—and former CDC leaders are alarmed This week has been an eventful one for America’s public health...
This week I’m writing from Manchester, where I’ve been attending a conference on aging. Wednesday was full of talks and presentations by scientists who are trying to understand the nitty-gritty of aging—all the way down to the molecular level. Once we can understand the complex biology of...
Earlier this summer, I walked through the glassy lobby of a fancy office in London, into an elevator, and then along a corridor into a clean, carpeted room. Natural light flooded in through its windows, and a large pair of umbrella-like lighting rigs made the room even brighter. I tried not to...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers . Bonne lecture ! Ça va, elle vous plait toujours ma série de l’été ? Je suis loin d’avoir fini mais on fera une petite pause bientôt. Toutefois, rassurez-vous, j’en ai encore sous le pied. La preuve avec cette...
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAIBy Karen Hao ’15PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $32 Read MIT Technology Review’s excerpt here. Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the ArtsBy Samuel Jay Keyser, HM ’97, emeritus professor of linguisticsMIT PRESS, 2025, $30 Data, Systems, and...
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. How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike —Joshua A. Basseches is the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant...
This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By August 2020, we’d seen school closures, national lockdowns, and widespread panic. That year, the coronavirus was responsible for around 3 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Then came the vaccines....