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The Download: gig workers training humanoids, and better AI benchmarks

This is todayā€™s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatā€™s going on in the world of technology. The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home When Zeus, a medical student in Nigeria, returns to his apartment from a long day at the hospital, he straps hisā€¦

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AI benchmarks are broken. Hereā€™s what we need instead.

For decades, artificial intelligence has been evaluated through the question of whether machines outperform humans. From chess to advanced math, from coding to essay writing, the performance of AI models and applications is tested against that of individual humans completing tasks. This framing is seductive: An AI vs. human comparison on isolated problems with clearā€¦

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The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagonā€™s Anthropic culture war

This is todayā€™s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatā€™s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than everā€”but how well do they work? In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI have all launched medical chatbots. Thereā€™s a clear demandā€¦

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Shifting to AI model customization is an architectural imperative

In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains. The exception is domain-specialized intelligence, where true step-function improvements are still the norm. When a model is fused with an organizationā€™sā€¦

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The Download: brainless human clones and the first uterus kept alive outside a body

This is todayā€™s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatā€™s going on in the world of technology. Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones After operating in secrecy for years, R3 Bio, a California-based startup, suddenly revealed last week that it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey ā€œorgan sacksā€ā€¦

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The Pentagonā€™s culture war tactic against Anthropic has backfired

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Thursday, a California judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and ordering government agencies to stop using its AI. Itā€™s the latest development in the month-longā€¦

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There are more AI health tools than everā€”but how well do they work?

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a new space within its Copilot app where users will be able to connect their medical records and ask specific questions about their health. A couple of days earlier, Amazon had announced that Health AI, an LLM-based tool previously restricted to members of its One Medical service, wouldā€¦

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How should we balance the use of AI in conflicts with the need for clear laws to protect peopleā€™s rights?

This is todayā€™s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatā€™s going on in the world of technology. How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater Much of the spotlight on AI in the Iran conflict has focused on models like Claude helping the US military decide where toā€¦

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A womanā€™s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time

ā€œThink of this as a human body,ā€ says Javier GonzĆ”lez. In front of me is essentially a metal box on wheels. Standing at around a meter in height, it reminds me of a stainless-steel counter in a restaurant kitchen. It is covered in flexible plastic tubingā€”which act as veins and arteriesā€”connecting a series of transparentā€¦

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The Download: the internetā€™s best weather app, and why people freeze their brains

This is todayā€™s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatā€™s going on in the world of technology. How a couple of ski bums built the internetā€™s best weather app The best snow-forecasting app for skiers isnā€™t a federally-funded service or a big-name brand. Itā€™s OpenSnow, a startup that uses government data, its own AIā€¦

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Are high gas prices good news for EVs? Itā€™s complicated.

I live in a dense city with plentiful public transportation options and limited parking, so I donā€™t own a car. Iā€™m often utterly clueless about the current price of gasoline. But as the conflict in Iran has escalated, fossil-fuel prices have been on a roller-coaster, and Iā€™ve started paying attention. In the US, average gasā€¦

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