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2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pano AI and its fire-detecting AI

When blazes are confirmed, Pano alerts fire monitoring agencies, providing images and location data that help them respond quickly. As firefighters battle the blaze, the company continues to provide up-to-date,...

The Download: Training robots for unfamiliar environments, and all-new bird flu

What’s new: It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments they’ve never seen before. Typically, researchers need to train them on new data for every new place they encounter,...

The Download: a quantum breakthrough, and the Internet Archive ruling

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. Google says it’s made a quantum computing breakthrough that...

The Download: Monkey names, and smart masks for health monitoring

The news: Do animals have names? It seems so, after new research appears to have discovered that small monkeys called marmosets “vocally label” their monkey friends with specific sounds. How...

Tech that measures our brainwaves is 100 years old. How will we be using it 100 years from now?

Ross Compton’s heart data was used against him when he was accused of burning down his home in Ohio in 2016. Brain data could be used in a similar way. One person...

The Download: how we’re using AI, and Trump’s campaign hack

When the generative AI boom started with ChatGPT in late 2022, we were sold a vision of superintelligent AI tools that know everything, can replace the boring bits of work, and...

The Download: Making tough decisions with AI, and the significance of toys

—Jessica Hamzelou This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life care. We’re talking about the kinds of life-and-death decisions that come...

The Download: AI’s self-regulation promises, and predicting the weather

One year ago, seven leading AI companies—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—committed with the White House to a set voluntary commitments on how to develop AI in a safe...
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