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It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste

Even the long-established US program is seeing growth: Interest in and approval for nuclear energy have spiked, and Big Tech is throwing money around to meet rising electricity demand. Companies are proposing... Read more »

The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem

Cheap, accessible models now produce weaponized deepfakes—from sexually explicit images to political propaganda—that look startlingly real. They’re already inciting violence, changing minds, and sowing mistrust, with women and marginalized groups disproportionately affected.... Read more »

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future

Musk is seeking as much as $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s biggest financial backers. He is also asking the court to remove Altman and Brockman from... Read more »

Rebuilding the data stack for AI

Most organizations have had thousands of these dashboards and reports proliferate across the organization and then they need to be customized. It just takes a long time for users inside of the... Read more »

The Download: DeepSeek’s latest AI breakthrough, and the race to build world models

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup ManusRegulators cited national security grounds. (WSJ... Read more »

Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model V4 matters

In terms of performance, V4 is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a huge jump from R1—and it seems to be a strong alternative to just about all the latest big AI models. On the major... Read more »

The Download: supercharged scams and studying AI healthcare

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepSeek has unveiled its long-awaited new AI modelThe Chinese company has just launched preview versions of DeepSeek-V4. (CNN)+It... Read more »

Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.

But even a tool that is “accurate” won’t necessarily improve health outcomes. AI might speed up the interpretation of a chest X-ray, for example. But how much will a doctor rely on its... Read more »

The Download: introducing the Nature issue

The research team aimed to improve predictions of fusion’s future price by estimating the technology’s experience rate—the percentage by which its cost declines every time capacity doubles. Their findings offer new clues... Read more »

Will fusion power get cheap? Don’t count on it.

It’s tricky to make any predictions about the cost of a technology that doesn’t exist yet. But when there’s billions of dollars of public and private funding on the line, it’s worth... Read more »