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Four things we’d need to put data centers in space

Large structures with hundreds of square meters of solar arrays would quickly suffer damage from small pieces of space debris and meteorites, which would over time degrade the performance of their solar... Read more »

Fuel prices are soaring. Plastic could be next.

Plastic production accounts for roughly 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions today. And our current moment shows just how embedded oil and gas products are in our lives. It goes far beyond... Read more »

The Download: gig workers training humanoids, and better AI benchmarks

Zeus is a data recorder for Micro1, which sells the data he collects to robotics firms. As these companies race to build humanoids, videos from workers like Zeus have become the hottest... Read more »

The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

Investors are pouring money feverishly into solving this challenge, spending over $6 billion on humanoid robots in 2025. And at-home data recording is becoming a booming gig economy around the world. Data... Read more »

AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.

Across the organizations where this approach has emerged and started to be applied, the first step is shifting the unit of analysis.  For example, in one UK hospital system in the period... Read more »

The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.  1 California has defied Trump to impose new AI regulations Governor Newsom signed off on the new standards yesterday.  (Guardian) + Firms seeking... Read more »

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of our findings. It said Schloendorn “never made any statement regarding hypothetical ‘non-sentient... Read more »

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of our findings. It said Schloendorn “never made any statement regarding hypothetical ‘non-sentient... Read more »

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of our findings. It said Schloendorn “never made any statement regarding hypothetical ‘non-sentient... Read more »

A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time

“As a proof of concept, it is impressive,” says Keren Ladin, a bioethicist who has focused on organ transplantation and perfusion at Tufts University. “These are early days.” It might not sound... Read more »