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How to save a glacier

Minchew is among the researchers looking into potential plans to alter the future of glaciers. Strategies being proposed by groups around the world include building physical supports to prop them up and... Read more »

Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there

This all means it’s up to the tech companies themselves to act on their own initiative. And Big Tech has rarely acted without legislative threats or significant social or financial pressure. Companies... Read more »

The Download: China’s empty data centers, and OpenAI’s new practical image generator

3 The US government has hired a vaccine skeptic to conduct a major vaccine studyThe long-discredited David Geier will oversee analysis of whether jabs cause autism. (WP $)+ The White House appears... Read more »

China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.

Now, his WeChat feed and industry group chats tell a different story. Traders are more discreet in their dealings, and prices have come back down to earth. Meanwhile, two data center projects... Read more »

The AI Hype Index: DeepSeek mania, Israel’s spying tool, and cheating at chess

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry.... Read more »

OpenAI’s new image generator aims to be practical enough for designers and advertisers

The new model makes progress on technical issues that have plagued AI image generators for years. While most have been great at creating fantastical images or realistic deepfakes, they’ve been terrible at... Read more »

The Download: creating “spare” human bodies, and ditching US AI models

Many challenges in medicine stem, in large part, from a common root cause: a severe shortage of ethically-sourced human bodies. There might be a way to get out of this moral and... Read more »

Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine

But when we come to human bodyoids, the issues become harder. Many will find the concept grotesque or appalling. And for good reason. We have an innate respect for human life in... Read more »

Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models

A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the US, grappled... Read more »

OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being

The researchers found some intriguing differences between how men and women respond to using ChatGPT. After using the chatbot for four weeks, female study participants were slightly less likely to socialize with... Read more »