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The Download: cuddly robots to help dementia, and what Daedalus taught us
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The Download: cuddly robots to help dementia, and what Daedalus taught us

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...

The Download: Google’s new AI agent, and our tech pessimism bias
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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
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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
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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: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla’s EV charging meltdown
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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: synthetic cow embryos, and AI jobs of the future
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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...