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A new sodium metal fuel cell could help clean up transportation
A new type of fuel cell that runs on sodium metal could one day help clean...
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Building customer-centric convenience
In the U.S., two-thirds of the country’s 150,000 convenience stores are run by independent operators. Mom-and-pop...
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The Download: nuclear-powered AI, and a short history of creativity
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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The Download: meet Cathy Tie, and Anthropic’s new AI models
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”
Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to...
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The FDA plans to limit access to covid vaccines. Here’s why that’s not all bad.
This week, two new leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit...
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Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time
Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making...
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The Download: the desert data center boom, and how to measure Earth’s elevations
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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Three takeaways about AI’s energy use and climate impacts
This week, we published Power Hungry, a package all about AI and energy. At the center...
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A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth
In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously...
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Roundtables: A New Look at AI’s Energy Use
Recorded on May 21, 2025 Big Tech’s appetite for energy is growing rapidly as adoption of...
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The Download: Google’s AI mission, and America’s reliance on natural gas
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you covered....
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The Download: introducing the AI energy package
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
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AI’s energy impact is still small—but how we handle it is huge
With seemingly no limit to the demand for artificial intelligence, everyone in the energy, AI, and...
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AI could keep us dependent on natural gas for decades to come
The thousands of sprawling acres in rural northeast Louisiana had gone unwanted for nearly two decades....
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Four reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy usage
The day after his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump announced Stargate, a $500 billion initiative...
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Can nuclear power really fuel the rise of AI?
In the AI arms race, all the major players say they want to go nuclear. Over...
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How AI is introducing errors into courtrooms
It’s been quite a couple weeks for stories about AI in the courtroom. You might have...
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Everything you need to know about estimating AI’s energy and emissions burden
When we set out to write a story on the best available estimates for AI’s energy...
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The data center boom in the desert
In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of...
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AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do
Millions of people argue with each other online every day, but remarkably few of them change...
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The Download: chaos at OpenAI, and the spa heated by bitcoin mining
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going...
