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Building the AI-enabled enterprise of the future

“This is one of those inflection points where I don’t think anybody really has a full view of the significance of the change this is going to have on not just companies... Read more »

The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

Despite decades of green certifications, better material sourcing, and the use of more sustainable materials, the built environment is still responsible for a third of global emissions worldwide. According to a 2024... Read more »

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

This is largely in line with the work of another psychologist, Robert Rescorla, whose work in the ’70s and ’80s influenced both Wasserman and Sutton.Rescorla encouraged people to think of association not... Read more »

Why GPT-4o’s sudden shutdown left people grieving

OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked... Read more »

The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep

Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling party has wanted to seize Taiwan for more than half a century. But in recent years, China’s leader, Xi... Read more »

Losing GPT-4o sent some people into mourning. That was predictable.

OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked... Read more »

Losing GPT-4o sent some people into mourning. That was predictable.

OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked... Read more »

Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence

Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges only through reciprocal, consensual interaction. Unlike systems that assume user consent via opaque terms of... Read more »

Why US federal health agencies are abandoning mRNA vaccines

So perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised when the US Department of Health and Human Services, which RFK Jr. now heads, announced “the beginning of a coordinated wind-down” of mRNA vaccine development earlier... Read more »

Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

Squarely in the middle Taiwan’s modern security uncertainties stem from the long-­contested issue of the island’s sovereignty. After losing the first Sino-Japanese War in the late 1800s, the Qing dynasty forfeited Taiwan... Read more »