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The US climate bill has made emission reductions dependent on economic success

The nation is entering markets already crowded with international rivals, many of which have been investing billions for decades. China alone has spent more than $50 billion to establish control of virtually... Read more »

How much would you pay to see a woolly mammoth?

If they can make a dunnart cell with enough thylacine DNA, the next step is to use cloning to try to create an embryo—and, eventually, an animal. Another project involves trying to... Read more »

Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online

However, Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take it seriously. Galactica is a large language model for science, trained on 48 million examples of... Read more »

The Download: Twitter may only last weeks, and Meta’s unforced AI error

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk’s demands for loyalty triggered an exodus of Twitter workersHundreds of employees chose to quit instead of... Read more »

Why Meta’s latest large language model only survived three days online

However, Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take it seriously. Galactica is a large language model for science, trained on 48 million scientific articles,... Read more »

These three charts show who is most to blame for climate change

Central to these negotiations is a question: who is responsible for climate change? The issue is complicated, but a few pieces of data about current and past emissions can begin to answer... Read more »

I found out my biological age—and was annoyed by the result

It’s also harder to eat well and get enough exercise when you’re balancing a full-time job with parenting. As I was adoringly brushing my four-year-old’s hair the other day, she commented: “Mummy,... Read more »

Former Twitter employees fear the platform might only last weeks

She’s not alone in that assessment. One former Twitter engineer, granted anonymity to speak freely, who was fired by Musk as part of a crackdown on those who escaped his initial layoffs... Read more »

The Download: cattle’s deadly tick-borne disease, and molten salt batteries

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 What comes after Twitter?Whatever the answer, downloading data and contacts is a smart move. (NYT $)+... Read more »

Super-hot salt could be coming to a battery near you

Ambri is a Boston-area startup that’s building molten-salt batteries from calcium and antimony. The company recently announced a demonstration project deploying energy storage for Microsoft data centers, and last year it raised... Read more »