Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
One winter afternoon in a conference room in Taipei, a pair of twentysomething women dragged their friend across the floor. […]
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Why US federal health agencies are abandoning mRNA vaccines
This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By August 2020, we’d seen school
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The US could really use an affordable electric truck
On Monday, Ford announced plans for an affordable electric truck with a 2027 delivery date and an expected price tag
The road to artificial general intelligence
Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in
Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies
In 1940, a fresh-faced Ronald Reagan starred as US Secret Service agent Brass Bancroft in Murder in the Air, an
The Download: meet the judges using AI, and GPT-5’s health promises
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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What you may have missed about GPT-5
Before OpenAI released GPT-5 last Thursday, CEO Sam Altman said its capabilities made him feel “useless relative to the AI.”
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Sam Altman and the whale
My colleague Grace Huckins has a great story on OpenAI’s release of GPT-5, its long-awaited new flagship model. One of
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Meet the early-adopter judges using AI
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display
This quantum radar could image buried objects
Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of atoms in