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The Download: Gambling with humanity’s future, and the FDA under…
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on…
Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future
While there’s a sprawling patchwork of ideas and philosophies powering these visions, three features play a…
Here’s what food and drug regulation might look like under the Trump…
Perhaps that could change. At his confirmation hearing, Makary told senators he planned to evaluate school…
Shoring up global supply chains with generative AI
It is not the only catastrophic event to strike supply chains in the last five years either. For example, in…
Roundtables: Inside OpenAI’s Empire with Karen Hao
Monday, June 30, 2025 AI journalist Karen Hao’s newly released book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in…
The Download: AI agents’ autonomy, and sodium-based batteries
In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models. Any…
The problem with AI agents
The flash crash is probably the most well-known example of the dangers raised by agents—automated systems that…
These new batteries are finding a niche
One researcher I spoke with at the time suggested that sodium-ion batteries might not compete directly with…
The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules
“If Digit’s going to walk out into an aisle in front of you, you don’t want to be surprised by that,” he says.…