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End of life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help?

Wendler has been working on ways to help surrogates make these kinds of decisions. Over ten years ago, he developed the idea for a tool that would predict a patient’s preferences based... Read more »

Why investors care about climate tech’s green premium

I’ve been thinking more about the financial piece of climate innovation since my colleague James Temple sat down for a chat with Mike Schroepfer, former CTO of Meta and a current climate... Read more »

Reimagining cloud strategy for AI-first enterprises

Realizing AI’s full potential on a mass scale will require more than just executives’ enthusiasm; becoming a truly AI-first enterprise will require a significant, sustained investment in cloud infrastructure and strategy. In... Read more »

The Download: ethics in physics, and talking to ChatGPT

—Frances Houle, Kate Kirby, Laura Greene & Michael Marder In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims made by Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, in... Read more »

A controversial Chinese CRISPR scientist is still hopeful about embryo gene-editing. Here’s why.

Last Thursday, JK, who was released from prison in 2022, sat down with Antonio and Mat Honan, our editor in chief, for a live broadcast conversation on the experiment, his current situation,... Read more »

The US physics community is not done working on trust

Alas, a pattern of similar behavior has been known for at least two decades. The history of such deceptions led the American Physical Society (APS) to study occurrences of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism,... Read more »

OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT bot that you can talk to

The voice mode is powered by OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model, which combines voice, text, and vision capabilities. To gather feedback, the company is initially launching the chatbot to a “small group of... Read more »

The Download: rebuilding economic security, and solving math problems

—Edlyn V. Levine is CEO and co-founder of a stealth-mode technology start up and an affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management and the Department of Physics at Harvard University.  Fiona Murray... Read more »

How the US and its allies can rebuild economic security

The missing middle of technology investment—insufficient funding for commercial production—is evident in each and every one of these failures, but the loss of expertise is an added dimension. For example, lithium polymer... Read more »

How machines that can solve complex math problems might usher in more powerful AI

But the news item that really stood out to me was one that didn’t get as much attention as it should have. It has the potential to usher in more powerful AI... Read more »