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The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs

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Friday, May 01, 2026 - 4:10 PM
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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. A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content A new US-wide cell phone

Trump’s mass firing just dealt another blow to American science

Date
Friday, May 01, 2026 - 1:00 PM
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This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the National Science Foundation—a federal agency that funds major research projects to the tune of around $9 billion. The foundation’s efforts were overseen

This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 7:59 PM
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The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give

The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 4:10 PM
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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. Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past In the past, getting to the North Pole involved a treacherous trip

The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents

Date
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 - 4:10 PM
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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. It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste Today, nuclear energy enjoys rare support across the political

The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem

Date
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 - 4:10 PM
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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. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to

The missing step between hype and profit

Date
Monday, April 27, 2026 - 8:13 PM
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers