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The Download: IVF embryo limbo, and Anthropic on AI agents
Millions of embryos created through IVF sit frozen in time, stored in cryopreservation tanks around the world.…
inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos
In practice, too, the available options vary greatly depending on where you are. And many of them lead to…
Anthropic’s chief scientist on 5 ways agents will be even better in 2025
2/ Agents will understand context “Claude needs to learn enough about your particular situation and the…
The Download: Escalating pandemic risks, and ask us anything on Reddit
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1…
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…