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This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

Mapping models Silico lets you zoom in on specific parts of a trained model, such as individual neurons or groups of neurons, and run experiments to see what those neurons do. (Assuming... 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 »

The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents

—Casey Crownhart This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. Orchestrated agents are coming for white-collar work When... 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 »

The missing step between hype and profit

Produced by Pause AI, an international activist group that co-organized the protest, it ended with this plea to the reader: “Pause AI until we know what the hell Step 2 is.”  In... 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 »

The Download: DeepSeek’s latest AI breakthrough, and the race to build world models

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup ManusRegulators cited national security grounds. (WSJ... Read more »