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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 »

A new tick-borne disease is killing cattle in the US

Theileria can cause cows to abort their fetuses. It can also cause anemia so severe that a cow will die. In Australia, where the disease has been spreading since 2012 and now... Read more »

Making AI real: From data science to practical business

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Infosys conducted a survey of 2,500 AI practitioners to find out why AI fails to deliver on heightened... Read more »

Feeding the world by AI, machine learning and the cloud

In the public sector, for example, just to call out a couple maybe. We’ve been working with the Open Data Institute to publish some of our data in a reusable format, raw... Read more »