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How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources

In the case of Big Blind, this prospecting information gave the company enough confidence to purchase a federal lease, allowing it to develop a geothermal plant. With that lease secured, the team... Read more »

Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter

This scheduled regularity might seem mundane, but it’s quite the feat that operational reactors are as reliable and predictable as they are. It leaves some big shoes to fill for next-generation technology... Read more »

OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior

Chains of thought are like scratch pads that models use to break down tasks, make notes, and plan their next actions. Analyzing them can give clear clues about what an LLM is... Read more »

The Download: AI and coding, and Waymo’s aggressive driverless cars

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Amazon’s new agents can reportedly code for days at a time They remember previous sessions and continuously... Read more »

Accelerating VMware migrations with a factory model approach

Take VMware migrations as an example. For years, these projects resembled custom production jobs—bespoke efforts that often took many months or even years to complete. Fluctuating licensing costs added a layer of... Read more »

The Download: AI’s impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepSeek has unveiled two new experimental AI models DeepSeek-V3.2 is designed to match OpenAI’s GPT-5’s reasoning capabilities. (Bloomberg $)+... Read more »

The State of AI: welcome to the economic singularity

The opportunities and the challenges are both enormous. An executive at one Fortune 500 company says his organization has carried out a comprehensive review of its use of analytics and concluded that... Read more »

The Download: spotting crimes in prisoners’ phone calls, and nominate an Innovator Under 35

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 New York is cracking down on personalized pricing algorithmsA new law forces retailers to declare if their pricing... Read more »

Nominations are now open for our global 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition

We’re looking for people who are making important scientific discoveries and applying that knowledge to build new technologies. Or those who are engineering new systems and algorithms that will aid our work... Read more »

An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls

“[Are we] going to stop crime before it happens because we’re monitoring every utterance and thought of incarcerated people?” Kendrick says. “I think this is one of many situations where the technology... Read more »