Inside OpenAI’s big play for science
In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people...
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Dispatch from Davos: hot air, big egos and cold flexes
I’m no meteorologist, but it’s true that there is a lot of hot air here. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump arrived in Davos to address...
The Download: surviving extreme temperatures, and the big whale-wind turbine conspiracy
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. The quest to...
Stop worrying about your AI footprint. Look at the big picture instead.
Just as with climate change, we need to look at this as a system rather than a series of individual choices. Massive tech companies using...
The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
While corporations, including tech giants like Microsoft, are betting big on this technology, there are a few potential problems with BECCS, as my colleague James...
The Download: Big Tech’s carbon removals plans, and the next wave of nuclear reactors
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. Big Tech’s big...
Big Tech’s big bet on a controversial carbon removal tactic
BECCS is also substantially less expensive for buyers than, say, direct air capture, with weighted average prices of $210 a ton compared with $490 among...
The three big unanswered questions about Sora
OpenAI is making moves toward monetizing things (you can now buy products directly through ChatGPT, for example). On October 3, its CEO, Sam Altman, wrote...
Clean hydrogen is facing a big reality check
A major barrier for clean hydrogen today is that dirty methods based on fossil fuels are just so much cheaper than cleaner ones. But China...
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden
The problem with finding that number, as we explain in our piece published in May, was that AI companies are the only ones who have...