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Plus: AI companies are now deeply entwined with the US military/p> 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 the man hunting the spies in your smartphone In April 2025, Ronald Deibert left all electronic devices at home in

Plus: Iran is systematically crippling Starlink 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 next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint   The popularity of commercial nuclear reactors has surged in recent years as worries about climate change

Plus: This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity” 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. Sodium-ion batteries are making their way into cars—and the grid For decades, lithium-ion batteries have powered our

It’s easy to be cynical about technology these days. Many of the “disruptions” of the last 15 years were more about coddling a certain set of young, moneyed San Franciscans than improving the world. Yet you can be sympathetic to the techlash and still fully buy into the idea that technology can be good. We

Plus: Grok is restricting its image-generating function to paid subscribers only 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 I learned to stop worrying and love AI slop —Caiwei Chen If I were to locate the moment AI slop

Plus: Amazon has listed retailers' goods without their permission 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. Europe’s drone-filled vision for the future of war Last spring, 3,000 British soldiers deployed an invisible automated intelligence network, known as a “digital

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 State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030   There are huge gulfs of opinion when it comes to predicting the near-future impacts of generative AI. In one camp there

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. Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses into the lining of the uterus then grips