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The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power.... Read more »

The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power.... Read more »

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

Anthropic also found that the J-space can sometimes give remarkable insights into an LLM’s decision-making. In one striking example, researchers testing Claude Opus 4.6 asked the model to find a bug in... Read more »

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

Anthropic also found that the J-space can sometimes give remarkable insights into an LLM’s decision-making. In one striking example, researchers testing Claude Opus 4.6 asked the model to find a bug in... Read more »

Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group

Many countries already have legal limits for donors. In Malta and Cyprus, for example, both egg and sperm donors are allowed to contribute to the birth of just a single child, according... Read more »

Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group

Many countries already have legal limits for donors. In Malta and Cyprus, for example, both egg and sperm donors are allowed to contribute to the birth of just a single child, according... Read more »

The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or J-lens) and used it to uncover a hidden area, which they named the J-space, inside its flagship LLM, Claude. The... Read more »

The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or J-lens) and used it to uncover a hidden area, which they named the J-space, inside its flagship LLM, Claude. The... Read more »

The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

The idea is to treat the disease by regenerating healthy nerves in the eye—but the company already hopes to go further. If the treatment can reverse glaucoma, similar treatments could reverse other... Read more »

You do your own time

I tilted my face up and gave the eye in the sky the finger. It didn’t matter. They already knew where I was. “Let’s go in.” “Wait,” said Gibson, both hands cradling... Read more »