Browsing Category
Tech Research Report
This startup wants to use beams of energy to drill geothermal wells
This rock-melting drilling technology from the geothermal startup Quaise is certainly unconventional. The…
Five things you need to know about AI right now
3. AI is power hungry and getting hungrier. You’ve probably heard that AI is power hungry. But a lot of that…
The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots…
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally…
AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors
“Then one day this year,” Sharma says, “there was no disclaimer.” Curious to learn more, she tested generations…
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
The bottom line, says William Agnew, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one…
The Download: How to run an LLM, and a history of “three-parent…
In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run…
A brief history of “three-parent babies”
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that…
Finding value from AI agents from day one
From assuming oversight for complex workflows, such as procurement or recruitment, to carrying out proactive…
How to run an LLM on your laptop
For Pistilli, opting for local models as opposed to online chatbots has implications beyond privacy.…
Roundtables: Why It’s So Hard to Make Welfare AI Fair
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 The city of Amsterdam has experimented with using algorithms to evaluate welfare…