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The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs

Since 2025, the NSF has faced budget cuts, grant terminations, and mass firings, with staff numbers down sharply and many ambitious projects grinding to a halt. The result is a major shift... Read more »

Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining

But as with any sort of new type of technology, “there’s always growing pains,” recalls Orphan. Frigid temperatures and steep topography added unseen challenges, and it took the full three weeks for... Read more »

A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content

“We are going to create—and we think we have every right to do so—an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” Radiant Mobile’s founder,... Read more »

Trump’s mass firing just dealt another blow to American science

Key decisions about how that money is spent have been made by the National Science Board. Each of the scientists who made up the board until last week was appointed by a... Read more »

A new T-Mobile network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content

“We are going to create—and we think we have every right to do so—an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” Radiant Mobile’s founder,... Read more »

The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have all set AI spending recordsCollectively, they’re up 71% on the same quarter... Read more »

It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste

Even the long-established US program is seeing growth: Interest in and approval for nuclear energy have spiked, and Big Tech is throwing money around to meet rising electricity demand. Companies are proposing... Read more »

The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem

Cheap, accessible models now produce weaponized deepfakes—from sexually explicit images to political propaganda—that look startlingly real. They’re already inciting violence, changing minds, and sowing mistrust, with women and marginalized groups disproportionately affected.... Read more »

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future

Musk is seeking as much as $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s biggest financial backers. He is also asking the court to remove Altman and Brockman from... Read more »

Rebuilding the data stack for AI

Most organizations have had thousands of these dashboards and reports proliferate across the organization and then they need to be customized. It just takes a long time for users inside of the... Read more »