Should AI flatter us, fix us, or just inform us?
How do you want your AI to treat you? It’s a serious question, and it’s one that Sam Altman, OpenAI’s […]
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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his
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Why GPT-4o’s sudden shutdown left people grieving
June had no idea that GPT-5 was coming. The Norwegian student was enjoying a late-night writing session last Thursday when
Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence
There is no word for art in most Native American languages. Instead, the closest terms speak not to objecthood but
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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
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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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
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