How a 30-year-old techno-thriller predicted our digital isolation
In April, Mark Zuckerberg, as tech billionaires are so fond of doing these days, pontificated…
The Download: talking dirty with DeepSeek, and the risks and rewards of calorie restriction
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OpenAI can rehabilitate AI models that develop a “bad boy persona”
A new paper from OpenAI has shown why a little bit of bad training can…
Is this the electric grid of the future?
One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard stalled above eastern Nebraska,…
Inside the US power struggle over coal
Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid…
The Download: future grids, and bad boy bots
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Why AI hardware needs to be open
When OpenAI acquired Io to create “the coolest piece of tech that the world will…
The quest to defend against tech in intimate partner violence
After Gioia had her first child with her then husband, he installed baby monitors throughout…