The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots
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Designing an AI serving harness built to last
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s...
The Foundations of Scalable AI
A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This...
The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
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The Download: introducing the Impossible issue
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Here’s the tea
When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he...
Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon
In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch...
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
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This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
More than 5 million people around the world have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) called geographic atrophy, in which cells in...
The Download: reviving frozen pig kidneys and boosting nuclear power
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