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Plus: why DOGE is slowing down US federal agencies 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 reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy usage Two weeks ago, we launched Power Hungry, a new series shining a light on

Plus: the US is failing to narrow the technological gap between it and China 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 Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies The Trump administration has terminated National Science

Back in April, OpenAI announced it was rolling back an update to its GPT-4o model that made ChatGPT’s responses to user queries too sycophantic. An AI model that acts in an overly agreeable and flattering way is more than just annoying. It could reinforce users’ incorrect beliefs, mislead people, and spread misinformation that can be

Plus: Elon Musk is leaving his US government role 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. This giant microwave may change the future of war Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the

Plus: the US state department is weighing up vetting the social media accounts of overseas student visa applicants 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. OpenAI: The power and the pride OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT 3.5 set in motion

Plus: Nvidia has set its sights on building a new supercomputer 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. Inside the story that enraged OpenAI —Niall Firth, executive editor, MIT Technology Review In 2019, Karen Hao, a senior reporter with

Plus: Grok's fixation on white genocide was the result of an unauthorized modification, xAI says 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. This baby boy was treated with the first personalized gene-editing drug Doctors say they constructed a bespoke

The Sierra’s frozen reservoir provides about a third of California’s water and most of what comes out of the faucets, shower heads, and sprinklers in the towns and cities of northwestern Nevada. As it melts through the spring and summer, dam operators, water agencies, and communities have to manage the flow of billions of gallons