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...
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Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem
Other teams, like Q-CTRL, an Australian quantum technology company, are focusing on using software to build robust systems from noisy quantum sensors. Quantum navigation involves...
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: OpenAI’s caste bias problem, and how AI videos are made
Caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, according to an MIT Technology Review investigation. Though CEO Sam Altman boasted about India being its...
Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem
And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that...
The Download: Veo 3’s subtitles problem, and the future of our planet’s resources
Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May,...
Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem
Getting rid of them isn’t straightforward—or cheap. Users have been forced to resort to regenerating clips (which costs them more money), using external subtitle-removing tools,...
10 Years Ago, Batman: Arkham Knight Solved The Video Game Trilogy Problem
Batman: Arkham Knight is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, June 23, 2015. Below, we look at how it raised the bar for not only superhero...
The problem with AI agents
The flash crash is probably the most well-known example of the dangers raised by agents—automated systems that have the power to take actions in the...
Switch 2 Launch Prompts A Problem With Smash Bros. Ultimate, But A Fix Is Coming
The Nintendo Switch 2 is out now, and it’s been discovered that there are some compatibility issues with certain games from the original Switch, including...