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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem
And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the…
In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
So some Gemini prompts use much more energy than this: Dean gives the example of feeding dozens of books into…
The Download: Ukraine’s Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar…
Starlink is absolutely critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia. It’s how troops…
The Download: Pigeons’ role in developing AI, and Native…
People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac…
Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs
This is largely in line with the work of another psychologist, Robert Rescorla, whose work in the ’70s and ’80s…
Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Squarely in the middle Taiwan’s modern security uncertainties stem from the long-contested issue of the…
Why US federal health agencies are abandoning mRNA vaccines
So perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised when the US Department of Health and Human Services, which RFK Jr.…
Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence
Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence…
After an outcry, OpenAI swiftly rereleased 4o to paid users. But experts…
OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the…
The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s…
Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling party…