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The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns
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 scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona.
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With Sift Stack, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor
The cry of “atoms, not bits!” — a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products — reached a fever pitch last week with word that Jeff Bezos is putting together a $100 billion fund to roll up and automate factories. But automating factories isn’
A new GPT-OSS benchmark and DeepSeek R1 updates for latency-optimized reasoning
The MLPerf Inference v6.0 release marks a significant expansion in open-source large language model (LLM) coverage, introducing two key additions to the Reasoning LLM task group: the GPT-OSS 120B benchmark based on a high-capacity MoE model, and a new interactive workload for DeepSeek-R1 with low-latency constraints, featuring the first standardized speculative decoding in MLPerf.
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Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind
Agile Robots has landed a partnership with Google DeepMind to develop robots with the artificial intelligence research lab, the latest in a string of robotics companies to do so. Munich, Germany-based Agile Robots announced it entered into a strategic research partnership with Google DeepMind on Tue
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The Download: tracing AI-fueled delusions, and OpenAI admits Microsoft risks
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 hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions What actually happens when people spiral into delusion with AI? To find out, Stanford researchers analyz
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Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video-editing app Captions
Mirage, the maker of video-editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). Over the past year, the startup has made significant changes both to its product and corporate identity.
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Securing AI systems under today’s and tomorrow’s conditions
Evidence cited in an eBook titled “AI Quantum Resilience”, published by Utimaco [email wall], shows organisations consider security risks as the leading barrier to effective adoption of AI on data they hold. AI’s value depends on data amassed by an organisation.
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Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks
Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop.
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Meet the former Apple designer building a new AI interface at Hark
A secretive AI lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock shared new details about what it believes is a novel marriage of model-building and hardware design that will change how humans interact with intelligent software. The company said in a statement it would design multimodal end-to-end mod
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This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain
L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits cushioned in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature of around −146 degrees °C for over a decade, largely undisturbed. That is, apart from the time, a little over a year ago, when scientists slowly lifted the brain to take photos
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Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
an old adage that has new resonance in the digital age. Today, you can buy smart devices that monitor your heartbeat, blood pressure, exercise habits, water intake, sleep, mood, menstrual cycle, sexual activity, and meditation patterns, not to mention your poop.
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Chris Hayes Has Some Advice for Keeping Up With the News
a living from attention: What deserves some, what doesn’t, and how to make sure the public gives their own limited span of it to the right things.That sounds simple enough.
ROCm Support for Miles: Large-Scale RL Post-Training on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
ROCm Support for Miles: Large-Scale RL Post-Training on AMD Instinct™ GPUsAMD & Miles TeamMarch 17, 2026Reinforcement learning (RL) has rapidly become a core stage of modern foundation-model development.
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Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great
In a new viral video, Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to expose how the AI industry is a threat to Americans’ privacy, but ended up demonstrating how AI chatbots’ tendency to agree with and flatter their users can lead the chatbots themselves to become a mirror of users’ own beliefs rather than a t
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Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”
Last week, Nvidia’s public reveal of DLSS 5—and its “generative AI” enhanced glow-ups of gaming scenes—drew widespread condemnation from the gaming community.
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Air Street becomes one of the largest solo VCs in Europe with $232M fund
London’s Air Street Capital has raised a $232 million Fund III with eyes set on backing early-stage AI companies across Europe and North America, the firm announced Monday. Check sizes will range from $500,000 to $15 million, with select growth investments reaching up to $25 million.
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The AI Race Is Pressuring Utilities to Squeeze More From Europe’s Power Grids
racing to bring new data centers online as AI labs across the globe continue to demand more compute. The primary limiting factor is energy—and specifically the ability to move it.Though Europe is on track to generate enough energy, utilities experts say, grid operators broadly lack the infrastructur
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The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI
In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco.
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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
AI warfare speaks to the biggest moral and practical question there is: Who—or what—gets to decide to take a human life? And who bears that cost? In 2018, more than 3,000 Google workers protested the company’s involvement in “the business of war” after finding out the company was part of Project Mav