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The Download: four (still) big breakthroughs, and how our bodies fare in extreme heat

The Download: four (still) big breakthroughs, and how our bodies fare in extreme heat

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...

GITAI - Ces robots qui vont construire des bases sur la Lune et Mars

GITAI - Ces robots qui vont construire des bases sur la Lune et Mars

GITAI est une startup japonaise spécialisée dans la robotique spatiale qui vient de réaliser quelque chose de dingue, à savoir la construction autonome d’une tour de communication de 5 mètres de haut dans un désert reproduisant la surface lunaire. Et tout ça sans intervention humaine,...

4 technologies that didn’t make our 2026 breakthroughs list

4 technologies that didn’t make our 2026 breakthroughs list

If you’re a longtime reader, you probably know that our newsroom selects 10 breakthroughs every year that we think will define the future. This group exercise is mostly fun and always engrossing, but at times it can also be quite difficult.  We collectively pitch dozens of ideas, and the editors...

The Download: political chatbot persuasion, and gene editing adverts

The Download: political chatbot persuasion, and gene editing adverts

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...

The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination

The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination

One day this fall, I watched an electronic sign outside the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan switch seamlessly between an ad for makeup and one promoting the website Pickyourbaby.com, which promises a way for potential parents to use genetic tests to influence their baby’s traits,...

The Download: LLM confessions, and tapping into geothermal hot spots

The Download: LLM confessions, and tapping into geothermal hot spots

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. OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior What’s new: OpenAI is testing a new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside...

How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources

How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources

Sometimes geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet’s surface. But in other places, they’re obscured thousands of feet underground. Now AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power. A startup company called Zanskar announced today that it’s...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure the English in his application was pitch-perfect. So he turned to ChatGPT. He was surprised to see that in addition to smoothing out his language, it changed his...

Coming soon: Our 2025 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

Coming soon: Our 2025 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

The need to cut emissions and adapt to our warming world is growing more urgent. This year, we’ve seen temperatures reach record highs, as they have nearly every year for the last decade. Climate-fueled natural disasters are affecting communities around the world, costing billions of dollars. ...

SimpleFold - Un labo de biologie moléculaire qui tourne sur un simple Macbook Pro

SimpleFold - Un labo de biologie moléculaire qui tourne sur un simple Macbook Pro

Apple vient de sortir un truc énorme et je pense que personne n’a encore capté cette folie. Leur équipe de recherche en machine learning a publié SimpleFold , un modèle d’IA pour prédire la structure des protéines. Jusque-là, rien de révolutionnaire me direz-vous car AlphaFold de Google...

The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal

The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal

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...