Cybersecurity Plus: OpenAI has struck a deal with Reddit 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 cuddly robots could change dementia careCompanion animals can stave off some of the loneliness, anxiety, and agitation that come with Alzheimer’s disease, according...
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The Download: rapid DNA analysis for disasters, and supercharged AI assistants
Cybersecurity Plus: Google search is harder to find under a load of AI features 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 grim but revolutionary DNA technology is changing how we respond to mass disasters Last August, a wildfire tore...
The Download: Google’s new AI agent, and our tech pessimism bias
Ohio 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. Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent What’s happening: Google is set to launch a new system called Astra later this year. It promises that it will be the most powerful, advanced...
The Download: OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and what’s coming at Google I/O
Cybersecurity Plus: the US AI roadmap is coming 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’s new GPT-4o lets people interact using voice or video in the same model The news: OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of AI...
The Download: the future of chips, and investing in US AI
Cincinnati Plus: deepfake detectors aren’t really fit for purpose 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. What’s next in chips Thanks to the boom in artificial intelligence, the world of chips is on the cusp of a huge tidal shift....
The Download: mapping the human brain, and a Hong Kong protest anthem crackdown
Cybersecurity Plus: OpenAI’s search engine is coming 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. Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain The news: A team led by scientists from Harvard and Google...
The Download: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla’s EV charging meltdown
Cincinnati Plus: Neuralink’s first implant in a human has experienced a 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. Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life What’s new: Google DeepMind has released an improved...
The Download: deepfakes of the dead, and why it’s time to embrace fake meat
Cincinnati Plus: OpenAI is getting into deepfake detection 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. Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese businessOnce a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother, and they discuss...
The Download: synthetic cow embryos, and AI jobs of the future
Cybersecurity Plus: Apple has been working on its own chip project 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 are trying to get cows pregnant with synthetic embryos About a decade ago, biologists started to observe that stem cells, left...
The Download: the cancer vaccine renaissance, and working towards a decarbonized future
Ohio Plus: overseas actors are exploiting the US university protests 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. Cancer vaccines are having a renaissance Last week, Moderna and Merck launched a large clinical trial in the UK of a promising new...