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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly)...

The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”

The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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 for science needs reasoning, not just data —Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the cofounder of Schmidt Sciences, and Suhas Mahesh, who...

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading.  For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government...

The path to artificial superintelligence

The path to artificial superintelligence

Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they all have their own distinct knowledge and objectives. Today they can exchange data, but they are...

Piloter un fauteuil par la pensée, sans Musk ni chirurgie

Piloter un fauteuil par la pensée, sans Musk ni chirurgie

Neuralink a mis en ligne cette semaine une vidéo où des participants paralysés font rouler un fauteuil électrique par la pensée. Vous allez voir, c'est assez bluffant. L'implant décode l'intention de bouger et déplace un curseur sur un écran qui affiche la vue de la caméra devant le fauteuil....

The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on...

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-­looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fuselage. The uncrewed plane is soaring thousands of meters higher than commercial jets fly—so high you...

Five things you need to know about AI

Five things you need to know about AI

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few things from our first AI10 list, an annual guide to the most important trends in this buzzy world, but I also veered off on a...

The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

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. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist A few months before he won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu...

10 sites pour jouer aux jeux DOS dans votre navigateur gratuitement

10 sites pour jouer aux jeux DOS dans votre navigateur gratuitement

DOOM, Fallout, Theme Hospital, Civilization... il y a sur le web des milliers de jeux DOS jouables directement dans votre navigateur, gratuitement, sans installer quoi que ce soit. Car oui mes amis, l'émulation DOS dans le browser a vraiment mûri, et il existe des dizaines de bons sites qui vous...

The case for fixing everything

The case for fixing everything

The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described him as a mainstay of both...

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home and shifted to remote work. Air travel collapsed. Cities—normally filled with the...