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And here again, I have got to say that we want to address in a slightly different manner. I think we want to address it so that customers are able to take... Read more »

The Download: striking actors training AI, and breaking ‘unbreakable’ encryption

Between July and September this year, actors in the US were invited to participate in an unusual research project, designed to capture their voices, faces, movements, and expressions. The project, which coincided... Read more »

Plastic is a climate change problem. There are ways to fix it.

Biologists are getting into the game too—Carbios, a French company, wants to use enzymes to chew up plastics. Check out the full story from 2021.  Keeping up with climate   Several popular EVs... Read more »

How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI

This kind of legalese can be hard to parse, particularly when it deals with technology that is changing at such a rapid pace. But what it essentially means is that “you may... Read more »

Inside the quest for unbreakable encryption

The last three decades of cybersecurity have played out like an increasingly intricate game, with researchers perpetually building and breaking—or attempting to break—new candidates. A few years back, researchers at Google and... Read more »

Decarbonizing your data strategy

That’s purely the efficiencies of running the box. Absolutely, it needs to happen. But the challenge coming in, and this is where regulations are going to force our hand in some ways,... Read more »

The Download: how NYC tackles tough problems, and China’s AI standards

It’s a reality of politics that is often overlooked: once a law is passed, it needs to evolve from an idea into a plan with a budget and a staff, and from... Read more »

China has a new plan for judging the safety of generative AI—and it’s packed with details

Last week we got some clarity about what all this may look like in practice.  On October 11, a Chinese government organization called the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee released a... Read more »

This microbe-filled pill could track inflammation in the gut

Inda and her colleagues created a pill containing E. coli bacteria that have been genetically engineered to detect nitric oxide, hydrogen peroxide, and other molecules that are produced in excess in the... Read more »

Why New York City is embracing low-tech solutions to hard problems

So the unit applies what it calls “campaign tactics” to policy implementation, proactively engaging with New Yorkers through door knocking, phone banking, text messages, emails, and public events to share information about... Read more »