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The deadly saga of the controversial gene therapy Elevidys

In the days since, the company has acquiesced. But its reputation has already been hit. And the events have dealt a devastating blow to people desperate for treatments that might help them,... Read more »

Trump’s AI Action Plan is a distraction

Today’s generative AI is based on the transformer model (the T in ChatGPT), first described by a team at Google in 2017. Six of the eight researchers on that team were born... Read more »

America’s AI watchdog is losing its bite

It found that the security giant Evolv lied about the accuracy of its AI-powered security checkpoints, which are used in stadiums and schools but failed to catch a seven-inch knife that was... Read more »

The Download: gas and oil’s role in climate tech, and using AI to decipher ancient Latin

—Casey Crownhart After writing about Quaise, a geothermal startup that’s trying to commercialize new drilling technology, I’ve been thinking about the role oil and gas companies are playing in the energy transition.... Read more »

What role should oil and gas companies play in climate tech?

Standing on top of a drilling rig in the backyard of Nabors’s headquarters, I couldn’t stop thinking about the role oil and gas companies are playing in the energy transition. This industry... Read more »

Google DeepMind’s new AI can help historians understand ancient Latin inscriptions

To do this, Aeneas takes in partial transcriptions of an inscription alongside a scanned image of it. Using these, it gives possible dates and places of origins for the engraving, along with... Read more »

The Download: what’s next for AI agents, and how Trump protects US tech companies overseas

AI agents is a buzzy term that essentially refers to AI models and algorithms that can not only provide you with information, but take actions on your behalf. Companies like OpenAI and... Read more »

Fighting forever chemicals and startup fatigue

Megan Tatum: From MIT Technology Review, I’m Megan Tatum. This is Business Lab, the show that helps business leaders make sense of new technologies coming out of the lab and into the... Read more »

The Download: how to melt rocks, and what you need to know about AI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Why it’s so hard to make welfare AI... Read more »

This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells

This rock-melting drilling technology from the geothermal startup Quaise is certainly unconventional. The company hopes it’s the key to unlocking geothermal energy and making it feasible anywhere. Geothermal power tends to work... Read more »