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Why the next energy race is for underground hydrogen

I’ve been thinking about underground resources a lot this week, since I’ve been reporting a story about a new startup, Addis Energy. The company is looking to use subsurface rocks, and the... Read more »

Implementing responsible AI in the generative age

Validity and reliability  Safety Security and resiliency  Accountability and transparency  Explainability and interpretability  Privacy Fairness with mitigation of harmful bias  To investigate the current landscape of responsible AI across the enterprise, MIT... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s lobbying, and making ammonia below the Earth’s surface

OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone, according to a new disclosure filed on Tuesday—a significant jump from 2023,... Read more »

OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold

This new AI energy race is inseparable from the positioning of AI as essential for national security and US competitiveness with China. OpenAI laid out its position in a blog post in... Read more »

OpenAI ups its lobbying efforts nearly seven-fold

This new AI energy race is inseparable from the positioning of AI as essential for national security and US competitiveness with China. OpenAI laid out its position in a blog post in... Read more »

There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race

Fortunately, a glimmer of hope for a responsible approach to AI collaboration is appearing now as Donald Trump recently  posted on January 17 that he’d restarted direct dialogue with Chairman Xi Jinping regarding various... Read more »

A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor

While the reactions tend to go faster at high temperature and pressure, the researchers found that ammonia production could be an economically viable process even at 130 °C (266 °F) and a... Read more »

The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention

Finding and diagnosing cancer is all about spotting patterns. Radiologists use x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging to illuminate tumors, and pathologists examine tissue from kidneys, livers, and other areas under microscopes. They... Read more »

Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer

In theory, artificial intelligence should be great at helping out. “Our job is pattern recognition,” says Andrew Norgan, a pathologist and medical director of the Mayo Clinic’s digital pathology platform. “We look at... Read more »

The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push

Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding. Everyone from established AI giants to buzzy startups is... Read more »