Five things you need to know about AI right now
Last month I gave a talk at SXSW London called “Five things you need to…
This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells
A beam of energy hit the slab of rock, which quickly began to glow. Pieces…
The Download: how to melt rocks, and what you need to know about AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors
AI companies have now mostly abandoned the once-standard practice of including medical disclaimers and warnings…
The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
The Download: how to run an LLM, and a history of “three-parent babies”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable…
How to run an LLM on your laptop
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Simon Willison has a…
Finding value from AI agents from day one
Imagine AI so sophisticated it could read a customer’s mind? Or identify and close a…
A brief history of “three-parent babies”
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an…