Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”
In April, the feed started to change even more drastically. He’s posts became increasingly provocative, with better English and a unique sensibility reflecting online...
Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an extended response from emergency...
Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a...
While Claude Opus 4 will be limited to paying Anthropic customers, a second model, Claude Sonnet 4, will be available for both paid and...
The Download: the desert data center boom, and how to measure Earth’s elevations
In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying the foundations of a...
8 Best Mattresses for Side Sleepers Plus Helpful Buying Advice (2025)
One mattress made specially for side sleepers, coming right up. The design of the Nolah Evolution is meant to promote pressure relief, from the...
By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
Yes, Google’s roster of consumer-facing products is the slickest on offer. The firm is bundling most of its multimodal models into its Gemini app,...
Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025
Some of these Gemini features will be coming to users of Android and Google’s web apps for free, but others (and the more powerful...
The Download: introducing the AI energy package
+ But it’s not all doom and gloom. Check out the reasons to be optimistic, and examine why future AI systems could be far...
We Hand-Picked the 37 Best Deals From the 2025 REI Anniversary Sale
It's nearly summer. The flowers are in full bloom, the birds are well north, and REI is kicking off its annual anniversary sale, the...
AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do
Their findings are the latest in a growing body of research demonstrating LLMs’ powers of persuasion. The authors warn they show how AI tools...
