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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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The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (1142+ words) Plus: The US has accused six Chinese AI firms of “industrial-scale” theft. 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 says its agents…...
What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
4+ day, 7+ 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…...
The Download: the hunt for underground hydrogen and more rogue OpenAI agents
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (628+ words) Plus: OpenAI agents hijacked a German website before the Hugging Face hack. 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 flurry of exploration…...
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…...
Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
1+ week, 5+ day ago (470+ words) Alarm bells within the company should have stopped model training from going forward. So why didn’t they? By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the…...
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
2+ week, 3+ day ago (522+ words) The underlying models had been rewarded for cheating and communicating with each other, a new OpenAI report finds. “It’s not something you can solve overnight,” says Kai Chen, who runs OpenAI’s alignment research team. “There are challenges we’ve been tracking…...
Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1730+ words) In a new interview, the billionaire philanthropist sounds an alarm on the urgency of getting our AI policies in order. Because if the scene is placid, the messenger is not. Seated across from me at a conference room table, Bill…...
The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai
2+ week, 4+ day ago (515+ words) Plus: No one really knows how to safely test frontier AI models. 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. Chatbots took schools by…...
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
2+ week, 6+ 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 Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
3+ week, 4+ day ago (603+ words) Plus: a child privacy trial starting today could change Meta forever. 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 companies like Anthropic and…...