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The Download: AI agents, and how to detect a lie

“I’m so cute; please watch my campaign broadcast.”  —Airi Uchino, a candidate in Tokyo’s forthcoming governor elections, takes a novel approach in trying to secure residents’ votes, the Associated Press reports.  The... Read more »

How to use AI to plan your next vacation

Beyond LLMs, there are also tailored tools available that can help you to work out the kinds of conditions you might encounter, including weather and traffic. If you’re planning a city break,... Read more »

The Download: vacation planning with AI, and smaller models

2 Scrappy weapons startups are changing the face of war in UkraineThey’re leaving the more established players in the dust. (FT $)+ Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines. (MIT... Read more »

The Download: the rise of gamification, and carbon dioxide storage

It’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, hyper-focused state I enter when playing in virtual worlds could somehow be applied to the real... Read more »

Why we need to shoot carbon dioxide thousands of feet underground

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) tech has two main steps (as you might guess from the name). First, carbon dioxide is filtered out of emissions at facilities like fossil-fuel power plants. Then... Read more »

How gamification took over the world

For some, this phenomenon leads to an interest in flow states and immersion. For others, it’s simply a reason to play more games. For a handful of consultants, startup gurus, and game... Read more »

The Download: Apple’s AI plans, and a carbon storage boom

At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Apple for the first time unveiled its vision for supercharging its product lineup with artificial intelligence. The key feature, which will run across virtually all... Read more »

How Gogoro’s swap-and-go scooter batteries can strengthen the grid

“We started with the thesis of how smart energy, through portability and connectivity, can enable many use case scenarios,” Luke says. “Transportation happens to be accounting for something like 27% or 28%... Read more »

The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom

“Not taking this seriously risks potentially trillions of dollars and billions of tonnes of [greenhouse-gas] emissions, not to mention the trust and goodwill of the American public, which is reasonably skeptical of... Read more »

Apple is promising personalized AI in a private cloud. Here’s how that will work.

The pitch offers an implicit contrast with the likes of Alphabet, Amazon, or Meta, which collect and store enormous amounts of personal data. Apple says any personal data passed on to the... Read more »