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AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon

The company claims that the model exhibits the first signs of compositional generalization, a term for AI systems’ ability to perform skills they’ve never been exposed to by recombining ones learned in... Read more »

Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI

Arti: Yeah, so I think for us, we think about a triple mandate around responsible AI, and that means that it’s secure, it’s efficient, and that includes environmentally efficient, and then it... Read more »

The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries

1 OpenAI has released 377 new math findings, further rattling the fieldThey span number theory, algebra, geometry, and physics. (NYT $)+ They came from testing an unreleased OpenAI model. (Verge)+ And cost... Read more »

Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers

The company found that, over time, the drugs cause a wide slowdown in aging clocks—as much as 4 years in the case of a clock that looks at heart proteins. “I think... Read more »

The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch

We urgently need to cut emissions and avoid climate change’s most harmful effects, and that’s where our 10 companies come in.  They’re working on everything from mobile flood barriers and semi-solid-state batteries... Read more »

Moment Energy and its shipping containers packed with old EV batteries

Today, their vision looks prescient. Disasters including hurricanes and wildfires continue to spur blackouts, and booming data center demand has expanded the market for energy storage even further. Moment now works with... Read more »

BasiGo and its fleet of electric buses

The company doesn’t manufacture its own buses—the vehicles come from China and are assembled in Kenya. BasiGo’s innovation lies in offering a full range of services that make its electric buses more... Read more »

WaveSave and its portable rubber dam

Developed in 2013 in the Netherlands, SlamDam was initially tested and is still used today by regional water authorities in that country. WaveSave has since expanded into Africa and Southeast Asia, and... Read more »

Brimstone and its one-stop process for making cleaner cement and critical minerals

Brimstone also suffered a major stumble last year, when the Trump administration revoked a $189 million grant intended to subsidize its next plant, a planned commercial demonstration project in Reno, Nevada.  Finke... Read more »

Energy Dome and its carbon dioxide batteries

Compressing gas to store energy isn’t new—utilities have been using compressed air in underground caverns to hang on to reserves for decades. But Energy Dome’s approach doesn’t require any specific geology to... Read more »