The Download: the dangers of AI agents, and ChatGPT’s effects on our wellbeing
—Margaret Mitchell, Avijit Ghosh, Sasha Luccioni, Giada Pistilli all work for Hugging Face, an open source AI company. AI agents have set the tech industry...
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The Download: Saving the “doomsday glacier,” and Europe’s hopes for its rockets
The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than Florida, a wall of ice that reaches nearly 4,000 feet above the bedrock of West Antarctica, guarding...
The Download: The future of energy, and chatting about chatbots
Where can you find lasers, electric guitars, and racks full of novel batteries, all in the same giant room? This week, the answer was the...
The Download: US aid disruptions, and imagining the future
Around 1,400 infants are being infected by HIV every day as a result of the new US administration’s cuts to funding to AIDS organizations, new...
The Download: speaking to robots, and growing pharmaceutical mushrooms
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. When you might...
The Download: Google playing AI search catchup, and forming relationships with chatbots
Chatbots are changing how we connect to each other and ourselves. But are these changes for the better, and how should they be monitored and...
The Download: HIV prevention shots, and fixing a broken sex doll
—An anonymous US agency worker says they’re not impressed by a chatbot DOGE created in an attempt to automate work previously done by federal employees,...
The Download: Making AI fairer, and why everyone’s talking about AGI
What’s new: A new pair of AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially making them fairer and less likely to cause...
The Download: testing new AI agent Manus, and Waabi’s virtual robotruck ambitions
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. Everyone in AI...
The Download: Google DeepMind’s plans for robots, and Eastern Europe’s changing tech sector
The news: Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems...