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The Download: measuring returns on R&D, and AI’s creative potential

Date
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 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. How to measure the returns on R&D spending Given the draconian cuts to US federal funding for science, it’s

The looming crackdown on AI companionship

Date
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 1:00 PM
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As long as there has been AI, there have been people sounding alarms about what it might do to us: rogue superintelligence, mass unemployment, or environmental ruin from data center sprawl. But this week showed that another threat entirely—that of

The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

Date
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 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. We can’t “make American children healthy again” without tackling the gun crisis This week, the Trump

Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry?

Date
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 12:00 PM
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Last week, a legal battle over lab-grown meat kicked off in Texas. On September 1, a two-year ban on the technology went into effect across the state; the following day, two companies filed a lawsuit against state officials. The two companies