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AI is changing how small online sellers decide what to make
For small entrepreneurs in the US, deciding what to sell and where to make it has traditionally been a slow,…
Four things we’d need to put data centers in space
Large structures with hundreds of square meters of solar arrays would quickly suffer damage from small pieces…
The Download: brainless human clones and the first uterus kept alive…
2 Elon Musk reportedly joined Trump’s call with Modi about the Iran War It remains unclear what Musk was doing…
Fuel prices are soaring. Plastic could be next.
Plastic production accounts for roughly 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions today. And our current moment…
The Download: plastic’s problem with fuel prices, and SpaceX’s…
3 Iran has struck Amazon’s cloud business in Bahrain again It promised to hit US companies only yesterday. (FT …
The Pentagon’s culture war tactic against Anthropic has backfired
The stakes in the case—how much the government can punish a company for not playing ball—were apparent from the…
There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?
Ideally, Bean says, health chatbots would be subjected to controlled tests with human users, as they were in his…
The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home
Investors are pouring money feverishly into solving this challenge, spending over $6 billion on humanoid robots…
The Download: gig workers training humanoids, and better AI benchmarks
Zeus is a data recorder for Micro1, which sells the data he collects to robotics firms. As these companies race…
AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.
Across the organizations where this approach has emerged and started to be applied, the first step is shifting…