The Chinese government’s problematic quest to judge online comments
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The Download: resurrecting mammoths, and the climate bill’s big flaw
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Watch this robot dog scramble over tricky terrain just by using its camera
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China just announced a new social credit law. Here’s what it means.
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Trust large language models at your own peril
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How much would you pay to see a woolly mammoth?
Sara Ord spent her week talking to scientists about skin cells from a mouse-size marsupial…
The US climate bill has made emission reductions dependent on economic success
In August, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, the largest…
Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
On November 15 Meta unveiled a new large language model called Galactica, designed to assist…
The Download: Twitter may only last weeks, and Meta’s unforced AI error
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The Download: cattle’s deadly tick-borne disease, and molten salt batteries
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