Innovation
The US Is Turning a Blind Eye to Crypto Crimes
Meanwhile, the Trump family’s crypto empire continues to expand. In late March, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s sons, announced a new bitcoin mining venture. Shortly before...
What Trump’s Tariffs Mean for Tech—and You
Katie Drummond: Very exciting promise by Howard Lutnick. I can't wait to talk about whether any of that is actually possible.Michael Calore: Certainly not in the short term.Lauren Goode:...
Where Were Big Tech’s CEOs on Tariffs?
If you logged on to X or Bluesky this past week, you were likely swept up in the onslaught of posts about Trump’s reciprocal tariffs and the plunging stock...
Former ASML CEO: Deep tech will ‘make the impossible possible’
After steering Dutch chip giant ASML to become Europe’s most valuable tech firm, Peter Wennink is now focused on the next frontiers of deep tech. Wennink has already been...
The Download: how the military is using AI, and AI’s climate promises
For much of last year, US Marines conducting training exercises in the waters off South Korea, the Philippines, India, and Indonesia were also running an experiment. The service members...
Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages
All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They use the open source AI framework called llama.cpp. This software allows people to...
Love or immortality: A short story
1. Sophie and Martin are at the 2012 Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging in Ventura, California. It is a foggy February weekend. Both are disappointed about...
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military
“We still need to validate the sources,” says Lowdon. But the unit’s commanders encouraged the use of large language models, he says, “because they provide a lot more efficiency...
How AI is interacting with our creative human processes
The rapid proliferation of AI in our lives introduces new challenges around authorship, authenticity, and ethics in work and art. But it also offers a particularly human problem in...
Why the climate promises of AI sound a lot like carbon offsets
Even without any “breakthrough discoveries,” the IEA estimates, widespread adoption of AI applications could cut emissions by 1.4 billion tons in 2035. Those reductions, “if realized,” would be as...
