The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading…

The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage
The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s…

The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap
The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. Perimenopause used to be considered taboo, but not anymore. Thanks at least in part to TV doctors and social media influencers,…

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US
The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other…

The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel
The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data…

The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models
The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —James O’Donnell When Anthropic announced last week that it had found a new window into its models’ “internal thoughts” as they reason through answers,…

The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI
The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic using sperm…

The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they…

The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips
The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Crownhart I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year…

The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality
The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips to…