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How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
I first covered the virus in an article published on January 7, 2020, which had the headline “Doctors scramble…
The Download: Greener steel, and what 2025 holds for climate tech
As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of steel were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a…
2025 is a critical year for climate tech
One company, called Stegra, is close to starting up the world’s first commercial green steel plant, which will…
A New York legislator wants to pick up the pieces of the dead California AI…
The bill would cover only models that pass a certain threshold for how many computations their training…
The Download: What’s next for AI, and stem-cell therapies
For the last couple of years we’ve had a go at predicting what’s coming next in AI. A fool’s game given how…
What’s next for AI in 2025
How did we score last time round? Our four hot trends to watch out for in 2024 included what we called…
The Download: How AI is changing internet search, and the future of privacy…
Every day, we are tracked hundreds or even thousands of times across the digital world. All of this is…
What’s next for our privacy?
Data brokers and their clients defend these transactions by saying that most of this data is anonymized—though…
How optimistic are you about AI’s future?
Why it matters: These failures show that there are tons of unanswered questions about the technology, including…
The Download: Our 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2025
Each year, we spend months researching and discussing which technologies will make the cut for our 10…