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Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
People worried about catastrophic effects of AI—broadly labeled “doomers”—have said for years that the…
Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel
I’m currently around 1,000 feet beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It smells weird. And I’m…
Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel
It’s cold, it’s very, very noisy, and—if I can be quite honest with you—I’m not feeling super relaxed.
I’m…
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
SubQ won’t replace existing top models across the board, but it could offer huge increases in speed at a…
The inevitable weakness of metrics
Self-quantifiers often get stereotyped as obsessive self-optimizers (and many of them are), but my reasons for…
Brain-computer interface trials are taking off
Synchron, another BCI company, is currently testing its devices in trials in North America and Australia.…
The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going…
1 The Pentagon says it used Grok in strikes on IranIts AI chief said it helped fire over 2,000 munitions. (Le…
Geoengineering still faces major engineering challenges
Some researchers are starting to look into how nations or companies would go about trying to cool the…
The search for dark matter has blown wide open
The hope is that someday, a bit of dark matter called a weakly interacting massive particle (a WIMP, for short)…