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The Download: a 30-year old baby, and OpenAI’s push into colleges

MIT Technology Review Narrated: Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models.... Read more »

OpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT for college students

A handful of college students who were part of OpenAI’s testing cohort—hailing from Princeton, Wharton, and the University of Minnesota—shared positive reviews of Study Mode, saying it did a good job of... Read more »

Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

That’s why his team will endeavor to transfer any embryo they receive, no matter the age or conditions. That can be challenging, especially when the embryos have been frozen or stored in... Read more »

The Download: how to store energy underground, and what you may not know about Trump’s AI Action Plan

—OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent explains how it passes a common internet security checkpoint designed to catch bots just like it, Ars Technica reports. One more thing How gamification took over the world... Read more »

This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery

In traditional pumped hydro storage facilities, electric pumps move water uphill, into a natural or manmade body of water. Then, when electricity is needed, that water is released and flows downhill past... Read more »

What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan

The White House’s messaging on deepfakes is confused Compared with President Biden’s executive orders on AI, the new action plan is mostly devoid of anything related to making AI safer.  However, there’s... Read more »

The Download: how China’s universities approach AI, and the pitfalls of welfare algorithms

Just two years ago, students in China were told to avoid using AI for their assignments. At the time, to get around a national block on ChatGPT, students had to buy a... Read more »

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less

However, there’s a crucial difference. While many educators in the West see AI as a threat they have to manage, more Chinese classrooms are treating it as a skill to be mastered.... Read more »

The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat

Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of federal programs will obscure the nation’s contributions to climate change. The... Read more »

How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs

Pamela McElwee, a professor at Rutgers who helped establish the academic coalition, says it’s crucial for US scientists to continue participating in the IPCC process. “It is our flagship global assessment report... Read more »