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The Download: what’s next for Neuralink, and Meta’s language translation AI

In November, a young man named Noland Arbaugh announced he’d be livestreaming from his home for three days straight. His broadcast was in some ways typical fare: a backyard tour, video games,... Read more »

Interest in nuclear power is surging. Is it enough to build new reactors?

In much of the world (China being a notable exception), building new nuclear capacity has historically been expensive and slow. It’s easy to point at Plant Vogtle in the US: The third... Read more »

What to expect from Neuralink in 2025

We haven’t yet seen what Neuralink’s robotic arm looks like—whether it’s a tabletop research device or something that could be attached to a wheelchair and used at home to complete daily tasks.... Read more »

Meta’s new AI model can translate speech from more than 100 languages

“Meta has done a great job having a breadth of different things they support, like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, even automatic speech recognition,” says Chetan Jaiswal, a professor of computer science at Quinnipiac University,... Read more »

Fueling the future of digital transformation

Luis: Yeah, that’s a great question. I have no doubt that the energy business is changing and will continue to change only faster, both our core business as well as the future... Read more »

The Download: China’s marine ranches, and fast-learning robots

A short ferry ride from the port city of Yantai, on the northeast coast of China, sits Genghai No. 1, a 12,000-metric-ton ring of oil-rig-style steel platforms, advertised as a hotel and... Read more »

Training robots in the AI-powered industrial metaverse

For example, Siemens’ SIMATIC Robot Pick AI expands on this vision of adaptability, transforming standard industrial robots—once limited to rigid, repetitive tasks—into complex machines. Trained on synthetic data—virtual simulations of shapes, materials,... Read more »

The Download: the future of nuclear power, and fact checking Mark Zuckerberg

While nuclear reactors have been generating power around the world for over 70 years, the current moment is one of potentially radical transformation for the technology. As electricity demand rises around the... Read more »

What’s next for nuclear power

Much of the funding and industrial activity in advanced reactors is centered in the US, where several companies are close to demonstrating their technology. Kairos Power is building reactors cooled by molten... Read more »

Here’s our forecast for AI this year

There are a couple other things I’ll be watching closely in 2025. One is how little the major AI players—namely OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google—are disclosing about the environmental burden of their models.... Read more »