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Astrolab’s upcoming rover will run the first LLMs on the moon

The rover will also carry a high-performance computer made by HPE that will be the first to run LLMs on the moon’s surface. Such software could ultimately help enable greater autonomy and... Read more »

The new economics of enterprise AI

The infrastructure that returns the best ROI isn’t a reference architecture or a bespoke build-out — it’s a fully integrated, qualified stack that lets teams route tasks to the least costly model... Read more »

AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn

Although some of these sound like niche skills confined to tech, many of them will translate to frontline work across sectors—from hospital systems managing patient logistics to school districts processing administrative reporting.... Read more »

The Download: the claim shaking up AI and the internet’s agent problem

8 Experienced scientists disrupt less, but their ideas last longerNew research shows they produce more lasting breakthroughs. (Nature)+ A new wave of private labs is challenging US science.(Economist $) 9 Everyone’s buying... Read more »

How to study a swiftly melting climate disaster

That means the subsequent uptake of carbon on those stands “more than compensated” for the amount released in the initial fire, Walker says.  A wildfire in 2019 scorched this spruce forest in... Read more »

A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub

In front of the fourth fab, I meet Choi Hye-rin, a 35-year-old safety officer, as she wipes her forehead with a handkerchief. At dawn, she boarded one of the shuttle buses that... Read more »

These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat 

Food-production companies are a big target. BMC Ingredients, which collaborated with Perdue on a line of blended nuggets, markets a plant-based protein that can be mixed with meat to up its nutrition... Read more »

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

But this is being entirely upended by the release of personal AI agents, which can do things for you online, like booking flights or hotel rooms. They have recently been unleashed at... Read more »

“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world

The researchers concluded that the model was getting at least some of its neurons to multitask, perhaps so that it could fit in more data. Looking at other models appeared to back... Read more »

The Download: preserving the Arctic permafrost, and playful AI agents

2 Do we really want AI agents smoothing out all friction in our lives?They promise convenience, but right now they’re mostly introducing chaos. (The Atlantic $)+ Here’s what it’s like to outsource your life... Read more »