The Download: Squeezing more metal out of aging mines, and AI’s truth crisis
In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a...
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What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis
On Thursday, I reported the first confirmation that the US Department of Homeland Security, which houses immigration agencies, is using AI video generators from Google...
The Download: Inside the Vitalism movement, and why AI’s “memory” is a privacy problem
Last April, an excited crowd gathered at a compound in Berkeley, California, for a three-day event called the Vitalist Bay Summit. It was part of...
Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace
“Our findings suggest that the continuation of the status quo, the basic expectation of most economists, is actually the least likely outcome,” Davis says. “We...
Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
This kind of hype has contributed to a frenzy of misunderstandings about what AI actually is and what it can and cannot do. Crucially, generative...
The Download: AI’s impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepSeek has unveiled two new experimental AI models DeepSeek-V3.2 is designed to...
Exclusive eBook: The Math on AI’s Energy Footprint
In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the...
The Download: Boosting AI’s memory, and data centers’ unhappy neighbors
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. DeepSeek may have...
DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember
Currently, most large language models break text down into thousands of tiny units called tokens. This turns the text into representations that models can understand....
Unlocking AI’s full potential requires operational excellence
Capturing, documenting, and distributing knowledge at scale is critical to organizational success with AI. Yet our survey showed only 16% of respondents say their workflows...