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The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared. Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed most of the clean energy incentives in former president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Meanwhile, his...
How do you want your AI to treat you? It’s a serious question, and it’s one that Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has clearly been chewing on since GPT-5’s bumpy launch at the start of the month. He faces a trilemma. Should ChatGPT flatter us, at the risk of fueling delusions that can spiral...
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 we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by...
In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II. Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more destructive weapons. Rather, he wanted to make...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Si je vous dis qu’une ex-Miss Jordanie est devenue cyber-terroriste, vous allez buguer. Mais rassurez-vous, c’est l’inverse ! Elle combat les terroristes avec des pubs pour du Prozac ! Voici...
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. Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Vous croyez qu’un agent secret russe du GRU peut oublier d’allumer son VPN comme votre grand-père oublie ses lunettes ? Bah oui, ça peut arriver et c’est exactement comme ça qu’on a chopé...
June had no idea that GPT-5 was coming. The Norwegian student was enjoying a late-night writing session last Thursday when her ChatGPT collaborator started acting strange. “It started forgetting everything, and it wrote really badly,” she says. “It was like a robot.” June, who asked that we use...
This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By August 2020, we’d seen school closures, national lockdowns, and widespread panic. That year, the coronavirus was responsible for around 3 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Then came the vaccines....
One winter afternoon in a conference room in Taipei, a pair of twentysomething women dragged their friend across the floor. Lying on the ground in checkered pants and a brown sweatshirt, she was pretending to be either injured or dead. One friend picked her up by her arms, the other grabbed hold of...
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. The US could really use an affordable electric truck On Monday, Ford announced plans for an affordable electric truck with a 2027 delivery date and...
J’sais pas si vous avez vu ça, mais le gouvernement britannique conseille à ses citoyens de supprimer leurs emails et leurs photos pour économiser l’eau. Oui, oui vous avez bien lu… Faut vider sa boîte mail pour éviter la sécheresse ! Cette recommandation révèle surtout une...