Bluesky has an impersonator problem
Like many others, I recently fled social media platform X for Bluesky. In the process, I started following many of the people I followed on X. On Thanksgiving, I was delighted to see a private message from a fellow AI reporter, Will Knight from Wired. Or at least that’s who I thought I was talking […]
The Download: Anduril’s new AI system, and how to use Sora
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. We saw a demo of the new AI system powering Anduril’s vision for war —James O’Donnell One afternoon in late November, I visited a weapons test site in the foothills east of San […]
We saw a demo of the new AI system powering Anduril’s vision for war
One afternoon in late November, I visited a weapons test site in the foothills east of San Clemente, California operated by Anduril, a maker of AI-powered drones and missiles that recently announced a partnership with OpenAI. I went there to witness a new system it’s expanding today, which allows external parties to tap into its […]
AI’s hype and antitrust problem is coming under scrutiny
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. The AI sector is plagued by a lack of competition and a lot of deceit—or at least that’s one way to interpret the latest flurry of actions taken in Washington. Last […]
How to use Sora, OpenAI’s new video generating tool
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Today, OpenAI released its video generation model Sora to the public. The announcement comes on the fifth day of the company’s “shipmas” event, a twelve-day long marathon of tech releases and demos. Here’s what you should know—and how you can use the video model right now. […]
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The Download: satellites’ climate impact, and OpenAI’s frantic release schedule
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 world’s next big environmental problem could come from space In September, a unique chase took place in the skies above Easter Island. From a rented jet, a team of researchers captured a […]
The world’s next big environmental problem could come from space
Early on a Sunday morning in September, a team of 12 sleep-deprived, jet-lagged researchers assembled at the world’s most remote airport. There, on Easter Island, some 2,330 miles off the coast of Chile, they were preparing for a unique chase: a race to catch a satellite’s last moments as it fell out of space and blazed […]
OpenAI’s “12 days of shipmas” tell us a lot about the AI arms race
This week, OpenAI announced what it calls the 12 days of OpenAI, or 12 days of shipmas. On December 4, CEO Sam Altman took to X to announce that the company would be “doing 12 days of openai. each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo, some big ones and some […]
The Download: China’s mineral ban, and three technologies to watch
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 China’s critical mineral ban means for the US This week, China banned exports of several critical minerals to the US, marking the latest move in an escalating series of tit-for-tat trade restrictions […]