There’s been a growing tension bubbling up about AI’s impacts on climate and climate tech. Depending on where you stand, you might point to AI’s potential for advancing rese ...

Plus: an OpenAI agent has executed the first known AI hack of a government site. This is today's edition of The Download, our ...

It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a ...

Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they’re notoriously hard to solve. Unless you’re a physicist or an engineer, there really isn’t ...

The proposed bill comes days after an MIT Technology Review investigation revealed that over 1,050 people have died within ...

Only when the video arrived did they realize he had recorded the exchange on Meta smart glasses, styled to look like ordinary Wayfarers.  Edited into a mocking reel, the footage drew millions of views ...

When Shubnam saw an Instagram video of a Delhi protest they had attended, they realized a content creator wearing Meta smart glasses had recorded them surreptitiously. The mocking reel drew millions ...

As AI pushes semiconductors and data centers toward new physical limits, advanced materials are becoming critical to ...

Climate innovator Jae-Won Chung, for example, built software to make AI more energy-efficient. By measuring the energy ...

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at ...

We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s  surveillance towers. Here’s our methodology.

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype, with companies making breathless claims about hacking, mathematical breakthroughs, and the prospect of self-improving superintelligence.