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The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-28 13:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The White House has fired the director of the CDC But Susan Monarez is refusing to go quietly. (WP $) + Monarez is said to have clashed with RFK Jr over vaccine policy. (NYT $) + She was confirmed by the Senate to the position just last month. (The Guardian) + Vaccine consensus is splintering across the US. (Vox) 2 A Chinese hacking campaign hit at least 200 US orga

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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-28 21:00:00

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups are developing. Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, read and decode neural activity to translate it into commands. Because they provide a direct link between the brain and an external device, such as a computer or robotic arm, BCIs have tremendous potential as assistive devices for people with severe

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Recent books from the MIT community

technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2025-10-31 12:00:00

Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal Good By Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $27.99 So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs —and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease By Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $35 Perspectives in Antenna Technology: Recent Advances and Systems Applications By

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Manufacturing firms are using AI to fill labor shortages - but this human skill still matters

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-01 16:27:23

Hase-Hoch-2/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Manufacturers are using AI to adapt to a shifting business landscape. The technology is addressing labor shortages, among other uses. Experiments with AI are revealing new benefits and risks. Manufacturing firms are turning to AI to help them adapt to disruptions in their industry caused by tariffs, shifts in global supply chains, inflation, and other factor

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Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-05 04:20:31

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple is suing a former employee on the Apple Watch team who left to join Oppo, alleging that he “conspired to steal Apple’s trade secrets relating to Apple Watch and to disclose them to his new employers.” Ahead of starting his new job at Oppo, the employee, Dr. Chen Shi, attended “dozen

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95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-06 18:59:34

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Just 5% of enterprise customers are profiting from generative AI. A bottom-up versus top-down approach can improve implementation success. AI companies are making big promises in a bubble, most of which are unfulfilled. Investment in generative AI may be booming, but most individual businesses using it have yet to see the payoff. In fact, a new MIT study found that 95% of enterprise

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Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

news.ycombinator.com Pesala Bandara 2025-11-09 16:23:19

A customer has sued Home Depot, claiming the retail giant has been secretly using facial recognition technology on customers with cameras placed at self-checkout kiosks. Earlier this month, Benjamin Jankowski, a frequent Home Depot shopper, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company. He claims the retailer’s self-checkout kiosks use facial recognition technology that scans and collects people’s facial details without their permission. In the lawsuit, Jankowski says cameras at th

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In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

news.ycombinator.com Hitachi Global 2025-11-11 09:28:56

News releases PDF Download(PDF Type, 114Kbyte) February 6, 2006 World's smallest and thinnest 0.15 x 0.15 mm, 7.5µm thick RFID IC chip - Enhanced productivity enabled by 1/4 surface area, 1/8th thickness - Tokyo, 6th February 2006 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT / TSE:6501) today announced it has developed and verified operation of a 0.15 x 0.15 millimeter (mm), 7.5 micrometer (µm)*1 thick contactless IC chip, the smallest and thinnest in the world, to date. The chip is a smaller version of the

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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 23:05:59

I really like Ted Chiang’s writing. I think he's probably the best science fiction short story writer alive, and possibly the best short story writer, period. I've read every one of his stories at least twice, and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate more like seven times. I’ve noticed many of his readers, including some of his most positive reviewers, miss one key point or another of his works, and thus don't fully appreciate his genius. This review covers what he does extremely well, espec

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How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-16 04:22:14

How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals' 39 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Corbyn Technology Reporter Reporting from San Francisco Share Save 374Water 374Water can purge PFAS from water and sludge "There's a lot of destruction that needs to be done," sums up Parker Bovée of Cleantech Group, a research and consulting firm. He is referring to PFAS (Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances), also known as "forever chemicals". These man-made chemicals can be found in items such as waterproof c

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Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths

news.ycombinator.com Vanessa Bates Ramirez 2025-11-14 06:08:33

From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have experienced water shortages recently. And in the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could significantly outpace supply, according to a United Nations forecast. Now several companies are turning to an unexpected source for a solution: the bottom of the ocean. Called subsea desalination, the idea is to remove the salt from water in the deep sea. If it worked at scale, the technology could greatly a

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Why GPT-4o’s sudden shutdown left people grieving

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2025-11-18 22:34:23

OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked psychosis in users have been everywhere for the past few months, and in a blog post last week, OpenAI acknowledged 4o’s failure to recognize when users were experiencing delusions. The company’s internal evaluations indicate that GPT-5 blindly affirms users much less than 4o did. (OpenAI

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RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-11-24 22:07:53

This month, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was canceling 22 contracts and investments worth nearly $500 million as a part of a “coordinated wind-down” of mRNA vaccine research. Yet some projects that do not involve mRNA or vaccines have been caught up in the purge. At the same time, the administration has quietly endorsed research into mRNA treatments for cancer and genetic disorders. HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been suspicious of mRNA vaccines

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AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-26 16:06:51

AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome The BBC has contacted Google for comment. The firm has not announced any plans to sell Chrome - the world's most popular web browser with an estimated three billion-plus users. But one technology industry investor called the offer a "stunt" that is a much lower than Chrome's true value and highlighted that it is not clear whether the platform would is even for sale. Moving Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety wo

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Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-26 12:40:11

Government expands police use of facial recognition vans 3 hours ago Share Save Share Save Home Office More live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced. The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras which scan the faces of people walking past and check them against a list of wanted people. The government says t

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James Cameron Wants to Remind You That Generative AI Is a Threat

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-28 08:45:33

As the industry behind generative AI keeps touting its evolution, Hollywood stands on a precipice to see just who’s going to be first to break ground leveraging the controversial technology in film production (although, reportedly, not for a lack of trying and failing behind the scenes). But for James Cameron, at least, the current will-they-won’t-they approach is untenable—and the filmmaker believes that studios have to start getting a grip with the technology now, before it irrevocably damages

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Samsung has launched its first Micro RGB TV with improved color accuracy

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-28 12:46:45

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. First teased at CES 2025, Samsung has finally launched a TV featuring the company’s new Micro RGB backlight technology. The 115-inch TV is first launching in South Korea for over $32,000, according to SamMobile, but Samsung says it’s coming to the US next, fo

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Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-30 03:14:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers have published the most comprehensive survey to date of so-called “OS Agents” — artificial intelligence systems that can autonomously control computers, mobile phones and web browsers by directly interacting with their interfaces. The 30-page academic review, accepted for publication at the prestigious Association for Computatio

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The Download: a quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-01 17:10:00

Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of atoms in a glass cell to detect reflected radio waves. The radar is a type of quantum sensor, an emerging technology that uses the quantum-mechanical properties of objects as measurement devices. It’s still a prototype, but its intended use is to image buried objects in situations such as constructing underground utilities, drilling wells for natural gas, and excavating archaeological sit

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AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-12-01 22:35:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Cognitive migration is underway. The station is crowded. Some have boarded while others hesitate, unsure whether the destination justifies the departure. Future of work expert and Harvard University Professor Christopher Stanton commented recently that the uptake of AI has been tremendous and observed that it is an “extraordinarily fast-di

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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees

news.ycombinator.com Matt Hyatt 2025-12-02 15:48:29

The following note from Lip-Bu Tan was sent to all Intel Corporation employees on August 7, 2025: Dear Team, I know there has been a lot in the news today, and I want to take a moment to address it directly with you. Let me start by saying this: The United States has been my home for more than 40 years. I love this country and am profoundly grateful for the opportunities it has given me. I also love this company. Leading Intel at this critical moment is not just a job – it’s a privilege. This

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The Download: GPT-5 is here, and Intel’s CEO drama

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-03 21:10:00

3 Meta’s AI superintelligence team is growing The new TBD Lab is currently working on the newest version of its Llama model. (WSJ $) + Meta has also been busy acquiring an AI audio firm. (The Information $) + Elsewhere, Tesla has disbanded its supercomputer team. (Bloomberg $) 4 A man suffered psychosis after ChatGPT suggested he take sodium bromide The 60-year old ended up with bromism. (Ars Technica) + He’d been taking it for three months before he went to the ER. (The Independent) + AI

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Apple’s mysterious chip tech will help Samsung make iPhone image sensors in Texas

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-07 05:51:38

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple is teaming up with Samsung to produce digital image sensors for future iPhone models, according to The Financial Times. This is tied to Apple’s Wednesday announcement that it is working with Samsung’s semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, to launch “an innovative new technology for making chips, which has never been used before anywhere in the world.” The Financial Times reports that Samsung will u

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Apple’s American Manufacturing Program includes a new chip deal with Samsung

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-07 09:48:54

Here’s an interesting tidbit from today’s flurry of announcements tied to Apple’s new $100 billion American Manufacturing Program: the company is entering a new chip manufacturing partnership with Samsung. Here are the details. New tech for new chips According to Apple, they are working with Samsung’s Austin, Texas facility, to bring to the U.S. “an innovative new technology for making chips, which has never been used before anywhere in the world”. In the press release, Apple doesn’t specify

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The Download: AI agent infrastructure, and OpenAI’s ambitions

technologyreview.com Charlotte Jee 2025-12-12 12:00:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI is adding mental health guardrails to ChatGPT It’s set to give less direct advice, and encourage users to take breaks from lengthy chats. (NBC) + What happens when doctors fail to spot AI’s mistakes? (The Verge) + OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being. (MIT Technology Review) 2 The US wants to bui

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The Download: fixing ‘evil’ AI, and the White House’s war on science

technologyreview.com Charlotte Jee 2025-12-12 14:05:00

+ We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy. But are they really ready for it? + What even is AI? Everyone thinks they know, but no one can agree. Here’s why that’s a problem. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The US is losing its scientific supremacy Money and talent are starting to leave as a hostile White House ramps up its attacks. (The Atlantic $) + The foundations of America’s prosperity a

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Yet, U.S. Federal Reserve Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-17 16:00:13

Generative AI is not just another tech hype cycle that is bound to die down but is instead a game-changer for human productivity, according to the Federal Reserve. The big caveat, though, is the road to get there will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk.” In a recent paper published by the Fed Board of Governors, researchers suggest that the hype around generative AI is probably not a bubble in the long run and that the technology will be a serious macroeconomic force, proving to have r

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Just Yet, a New Paper From the Federal Reserve Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-18 04:00:13

Generative AI is not just another tech hype cycle that is bound to die down but is instead a game-changer for human productivity, according to the Federal Reserve. The big caveat, though, is the road to get there will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk.” In a recent paper published by the Fed Board of Governors, researchers suggest that the hype around generative AI is probably not a bubble in the long run and that the technology will be a serious macroeconomic force, proving to have r

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Superhot geothermal energy could unearth big power boost for the AI era

cnbc.com Diana Olick 2025-12-22 12:14:53

Geothermal energy has been used for thousands of years, powering heating systems as early as the 14th century. It's getting a big upgrade. Beyond geothermal, there's superhot geothermal, which uses ultra-deep drilling to access extremely hot rocks, extracting 5 to 10 times more power per well. Quaise Energy, a Massachusetts-based startup, is in the market developing the technology, which involves an electromagnetic beam that vaporizes rock. The company's systems are able to reach superhot geot

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NBA quietly trials smart basketballs with embedded sensors and AI tracking

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-22 20:46:00

In brief: Kinexon and other companies have spent years refining connected-ball technology to enhance sports analytics, improve training, and collect more data than ever. As professional leagues begin adopting the new tech, questions remain about potential minute changes to basketball physics. Unbeknownst to most players, about half of the NBA games played in Las Vegas earlier this month used balls equipped with smart tracking technology. The league is considering full adoption, but one company

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Latest Tech News

The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

Recent books from the MIT community

Manufacturing firms are using AI to fill labor shortages - but this human skill still matters

Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo

95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing

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Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths

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RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines

AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

James Cameron Wants to Remind You That Generative AI Is a Threat

Samsung has launched its first Micro RGB TV with improved color accuracy

Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

The Download: a quantum radar, and chipmakers’ deal with the US government

AI’s promise of opportunity masks a reality of managed displacement

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The Download: GPT-5 is here, and Intel’s CEO drama

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Just Yet, a New Paper From the Federal Reserve Says

Superhot geothermal energy could unearth big power boost for the AI era

NBA quietly trials smart basketballs with embedded sensors and AI tracking

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