I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 OpenAI wants to make AI smarter than humans
Rushing to build such models doesn’t exactly fill ethicists with confidence, though. (Vox)
+ AI-powered search is getting really messy. (Slate $)
+ Chatbots aren’t human, and we’d do well to remember that. (NY Mag $)
+ OpenAI could do with a bit less hype, according to executive Mira Murati. (Fast Company $)
+ How to create, release, and share generative AI responsibly. (MIT Technology Review)
2 The hunt for greener graphite is on
It’s essential for EV batteries, and supplies are running low. (Economist $)
+ A village in India has been caught in the crosshairs of a lithium mining boom. (Wired $)
3 Twitter is being stretched to breaking point
It’s running on a skeleton staff, and glitches and outages keep cropping up. (WSJ $)
+ It suffered a major outage just yesterday. (BBC)
+ Twitter’s becoming a seriously boring place to be. (FT $)
+ What happened to Elon Musk’s plan to turn it into an “everything app”? (Ars Technica)
+ Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break. (MIT Technology Review)
4 NASA’s SpaceX crew is on its way to the ISS
They’re expected to spend a full year in orbit. (CBS News)
5 Psychedelics are being trialed as a treatment for anorexia
Scientists are cautiously interested in how breaking from reality could benefit patients. (FT $)
+ The UK has opened its first psychedelic therapy clinic. (Vice)
+ Psychedelics are having a moment and women could be the ones to benefit. (MIT Technology Review)
6 TikTok’s screen time limit for teens is easily circumvented
But the company insists it’s still a meaningful intervention. (NPR)
7 Turkey has shut down its most popular social platform
Residents had used Ek?i Sözlük to organize relief in the wake of the earthquakes. (The Guardian)