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A bias bounty for AI will help to catch unfair algorithms faster

The EU’s new content moderation law, the Digital Services Act, includes annual audit requirements for the data and algorithms used by large tech platforms, and the EU’s upcoming AI Act could also... Read more »

The Download: Bill Gates’s new climate plans, and an AI bug bounty

Casey’s story is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s new weekly climate newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. A bias bounty for AI will help to catch... Read more »

Should we believe in — or even want — immortality?

Most of these trials are going to fail, Kirkland said. Most trials do. “People should try to be dispassionate, even though everyone has a stake in this game. I mean, every living... Read more »

The bird is fine, the bird is fine, the bird is fine, it’s dead

Most of these trials are going to fail, Kirkland said. Most trials do. “People should try to be dispassionate, even though everyone has a stake in this game. I mean, every living... Read more »

When you lose weight, where does it go?

We use energy all the time, whether we’re running, eating, or sleeping. The energy we use at rest—to pump blood, digest food, regulate temperature, repair cells, breathe, or think—is our baseline metabolism,... Read more »

Bill Gates’s energy venture fund is expanding into climate adaptation and later-stage investments

To date, Breakthrough has been focused on “five grand challenges,” backing companies that promise to drive down climate pollution in electricity, transportation, manufacturing, buildings, and agriculture. All these efforts are considered forms... Read more »

Bill Gates’ energy venture fund is expanding into climate adaptation and later-stage investments

To date, Breakthrough has been focused on “five grand challenges,” backing companies that promise to drive down climate pollution in electricity, transportation, manufacturing, buildings, and agriculture. All these efforts are considered forms... Read more »

Why scientists want to help plants capture more carbon dioxide

This week in The Spark, we’re taking a look back at one of my favorite sessions from our ClimateTech conference last week, from a chapter we called “Cleaning Your Plate.”  In the... Read more »

At Bill Gates’s climate conference, “amazing” progress and “depressing” trends

And yet, this progress hasn’t translated into steep reductions in greenhouse-gas pollution. Meanwhile, geopolitical conflicts and global economic headwinds are complicating efforts to keep rising global temperatures in check. Gates was largely... Read more »

At Bill Gates’ climate conference, “amazing” progress and “depressing” trends

And yet, this progress hasn’t translated into steep reductions in greenhouse-gas pollution. Meanwhile, geopolitical conflicts and global economic headwinds are complicating efforts to keep rising global temperatures in check. Gates was largely... Read more »