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The Download: clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma

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Tuesday, August 19, 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 make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike —Joshua A. Basseches is the David

Apple AirPods : a gateway hearing aid

Date
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - 2:00 PM
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When the US Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter hearing-aid software for Apple’s AirPods Pro in September 2024, with a device price point right around $200, I was excited. I have mild to medium hearing loss and tinnitus, and my

How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance

Date
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - 2:00 PM
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On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second

Should AI flatter us, fix us, or just inform us?

Date
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - 1:00 PM
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How do you want your AI to treat you?  It’s a serious question, and it’s one that Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has clearly been chewing on since GPT-5’s bumpy launch at the start of the month.  He faces a trilemma. Should ChatGPT flatter us, at the risk

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

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Monday, August 18, 2025 - 2:00 PM
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In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II.  Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more

Why GPT-4o’s sudden shutdown left people grieving

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Friday, August 15, 2025 - 2:34 PM
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June had no idea that GPT-5 was coming. The Norwegian student was enjoying a late-night writing session last Thursday when her ChatGPT collaborator started acting strange. “It started forgetting everything, and it wrote really badly,” she says. “It

Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence

Date
Friday, August 15, 2025 - 2:00 PM
Description
There is no word for art in most Native American languages. Instead, the closest terms speak not to objecthood but to action and intention. In Lakota, “wówačhiŋtȟaŋka” implies deep thought or reflection, while “wóčhekiye” suggests offering or prayer