I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Reddit is suing Anthropic
Reddit claims the AI company kept accessing its site after claiming it had stopped. (WSJ $)
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The Download: Funding a CRISPR embryo startup, and bad news for clean cement
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Over $1 billion in federal funding got slashed for this polluting industry
The startup’s approach is to make cement using electricity. The conventional process requires high temperatures typically achieved by burning fossil fuels, so avoiding that could prevent a lot of emissions.
In 2024, Sublime received an $87…
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Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong is ready to invest in CRISPR baby tech
“I think the time is right for the defining company in the US to be built in this area,” Armstrong posted.
The announcement from a deep-pocketed backer is a striking shift for a field considered taboo following the 2018 birth of the…
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New MIT Tech Could Cut Oil Refining Energy by 90%
MIT researchers have developed a new membrane that separates various types of fuel by molecular size, potentially eliminating the need for the energy-intensive process of crude oil distillation. Turning crude oil into everyday fuels like…
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MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel
The latest iteration of a legacy
Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events explain the newest…
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Dead Sea Scrolls possibly even older than scholars thought
A specially designed artificial intelligence program named after a Judaic…
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The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Elon Musk has turned on Trump
He called Trump’s domestic policy agenda a “disgusting abomination.” (Continue Reading
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What’s next for AI and math
This year, a number of LRMs, which try to solve a problem step by step rather than spit out the first result that comes to them, have achieved high scores on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), a test given to the top 5% of…
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The world’s smallest violin is thinner than a human hair
The phrase “the world’s smallest violin” is dripping with sarcasm and…
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19 vintage Goodyear Blimp photos on its 100th anniversary
On June 3, 1925, Goodyear launched its first civil airship. Over the next century,…
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