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The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job

Date
Friday, January 30, 2026 - 12:56 AM
Description
Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can do anything from building websites to reading

The Download: A bid to treat blindness, and bridging the internet divide

Date
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 5:10 PM
Description
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 first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” Life Biosciences, a small Boston startup

The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” 

Date
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 10:08 PM
Description
When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk said he hasn’t put much time into the problem but suspects it is “very solvable” and that when scientists discover why we age, it’s going to

The Download: OpenAI’s plans for science, and chatbot age verification

Date
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 5:10 PM
Description
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. Inside OpenAI’s big play for science  —Will Douglas Heaven In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut

The power of sound in a virtual world

Date
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 6:00 PM
Description
In an era where business, education, and even casual conversations occur via screens, sound has become a differentiating factor. We obsess over lighting, camera angles, and virtual backgrounds, but how we sound can be just as critical to credibility

The Download: why LLMs are like aliens, and the future of head transplants

Date
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 5:10 PM
Description
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. Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens   How large is a large language model? We now coexist with

The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

Date
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 5:07 PM
Description
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. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?   For the past two decades, there’s been a clear