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This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

In addition, not everyone agrees that experiments at those scales will get us to the point where we’re capable of making an “informed decision.”  Wil Burns, a research professor and legal scholar... Read more »

Powering AI is an architecture problem

Asking more from the grid The grid was built around predictable loads: steel mills, refineries, and houses at dinnertime. Different load sizes, same process—drawing power smoothly, misbehaving occasionally, and recovering gracefully. But... Read more »

Can the US battery market untangle from China?

There’s an argument to be made about reducing reliance on any single source of a crucial energy technology. But all this tension raises a broader question for me: How much should countries... Read more »

Healthcare AI’s next test is integration

A prior authorization workflow, for example, may require retrieving clinical documentation through fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) APIs, mapping patient history to payer criteria, identifying missing evidence, generating a submission packet, routing... Read more »

God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything.

This time around, as Eli tells it, his public defender warned him that it was “legally impossible” that he’d be released early again. But he heard a voice in his head repeating,... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record

This entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty, but what it lacks in decor, it makes up for in robots.... Read more »

Batteries just broke another record in the US

Massive, utility-scale systems are leading the way; they’re responsible for most of the record-setting quarter. Seven new gigascale battery installations (those with a capacity of over one gigawatt-hour) came online during the... Read more »

Understanding the thermal ceiling in portable power

In internal testing, at 77 °F (25 °C) ambient, the back of the power bank stays below 96.8 °F (36 °C) throughout wireless charging, 21.6 °F (12 °C) below the international standard... Read more »

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

On Monday, NYU’s Buckmaster posted a proof on the social media site Mastodon showing that a simplified version of the Navier–Stokes equations can indeed break down—a major step forward on the Millennium... Read more »

The Download: our 35 Innovators Under 35 this year

Every year, we recognize 35 people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever technical fixes for sticky problems. By finding the top young innovators globally and... Read more »