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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. How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth As DeepSeek has emerged as a homegrown challenger to OpenAI, young people across the country have started using AI to revive fortune-telling practices

Plus: DOGE is working on software to automate firing US government workers 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. Introducing: the Relationships issue Relationships are the stories of people and systems working together. Sometimes by choice. Sometimes for practicality.

Plus: The US’s AI Safety Institute is being gutted. 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 foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Ever since World War II, the US has been the global leader in science and

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. A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers Microsoft has announced that it’s made significant progress in its 20-year quest to make topological quantum bits, or qubits—a special approach

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. Your most important customer may be AI Imagine you run a meal prep company that teaches people how to make simple and delicious food. When someone asks ChatGPT for a recommendation for

Plus: US disease monitoring capabilities are disappearing. 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. Adventures in the genetic time machine An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens

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 electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots As the electric-vehicle war in China calms down, leaving a few established players to dominate the field, Chinese EV giants are expanding

Plus: The US is not experiencing an AI energy crisis yet. 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. Robots are bringing new life to extinct species In the last few years, paleontologists have developed a new trick for turning