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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...

Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter

Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter

As many of us are ramping up with shopping, baking, and planning for the holiday season, nuclear power plants are also getting ready for one of their busiest seasons of the year. Here in the US, nuclear reactors follow predictable seasonal trends. Summer and winter tend to see the highest...

Ubuntu Pro for WSL est disponible directement dans le Windows Store

Ubuntu Pro for WSL est disponible directement dans le Windows Store

Canonical annonce la disponibilité d'Ubuntu Pro for WSL. WSL est le sous-système Linux de Windows. Cette version supporte les dernières évolutions apportées par Ubuntu 24.04. Elle peut être installée depuis Windows Store. Les sources et les préversions sont disponibles sur le GitHub...

The Download: OpenAI’s caste bias problem, and how AI videos are made

The Download: OpenAI’s caste bias problem, and how AI videos are made

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 is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. Caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, according to an MIT...

The Download: our thawing permafrost, and a drone-filled future

The Download: our thawing permafrost, and a drone-filled future

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. Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent years, sewage has leached into the...

The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future

The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future

On Thursday, I published a story about the police-tech giant Flock Safety selling its drones to the private sector to track shoplifters. Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now leads Flock’s drone efforts, described the ideal scenario: A security team at a Home Depot, say, launches a drone...

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One small detail? That reactor doesn’t exist...

The Download: accidental AI relationships, and the future of contraception

The Download: accidental AI relationships, and the future of contraception

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. It’s surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot The news: The first large-scale computational analysis of the...

The Download: AI’s retracted papers problem

The Download: AI’s retracted papers problem

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...

The Download: the LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal

The Download: the LLM will see you now, and a new fusion power deal

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. This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses Patients at a small number of clinics in Southern California run by the medical...