That is at this time’s version of The Obtain, our weekday publication that gives a each day dose of what’s occurring on the planet of know-how.
What’s subsequent for carbon removing?
After years of development that spawned lots of of startups, the nascent carbon removing sector seems to be going through a reckoning.
Operating Tide, a promising aquaculture firm, shut down its operations final summer time, and a handful of different corporations have shuttered, downsized, or pivoted in current months as nicely. Enterprise investments have flagged. And the collective trade hasn’t made an entire lot extra progress towards Operating Tide’s bold plans to sequester a billion tons of carbon dioxide by this yr.
The hype section is over and the sector is sliding into the turbulent enterprise trough that follows, specialists warn.
And the open query is: If the carbon removing sector is heading right into a painful if inevitable clearing-out cycle, the place will it go from there? Learn the total story.
—James Temple
This story is a part of MIT Know-how Overview’s What’s Subsequent sequence, which seems to be throughout industries, developments, and applied sciences to present you a primary take a look at the long run. You may learn the remainder of them right here.
An AI app to measure ache is right here
This week I’ve additionally been questioning how science and know-how can assist reply that query—particularly with regards to ache.
Within the newest situation of MIT Know-how Overview’s print journal, Deena Mousa describes how an AI-powered smartphone app is getting used to evaluate how a lot ache an individual is in.
The app, and different instruments prefer it, might assist docs and caregivers. They might be particularly helpful within the care of people that aren’t capable of inform others how they’re feeling.
However they’re removed from good. They usually open up every kind of thorny questions on how we expertise, talk, and even deal with ache. Learn the total story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
This text first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Know-how Overview’s weekly biotech publication. To obtain it in your inbox each Thursday, and skim articles like this primary, enroll right here.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you at this time’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.
1 Meta’s legal professionals suggested employees to take away components of its teen psychological well being analysis
Its counsel instructed researchers to dam or replace their work to scale back authorized legal responsibility. (Bloomberg $)
+ Meta just lately laid off greater than 100 employees tasked with monitoring dangers to person privateness. (NYT $)
2 Donald Trump has pardoned the convicted Binance founder
Changpeng Zhao pleaded responsible to violating US cash laundering legal guidelines in 2023. (WSJ $)
+ The transfer is prone to allow Binance to renew working within the US. (CNN)
+ Trump has vowed to be extra crypto-friendly than the Biden administration. (Axios)
3 Anthropic and Google Cloud have signed a significant chips deal
The settlement is value tens of billions of {dollars}. (FT $)
4 Microsoft doesn’t need you to speak soiled to its AI
It’ll depart that type of factor to OpenAI, thanks very a lot. (CNBC)
+ Copilot now has its personal model of Clippy—simply don’t attempt to get erotic with it. (The Verge)
+ It’s fairly simple to get DeepSeek to speak soiled, nonetheless. (MIT Know-how Overview)
5 Large Tech is footing the invoice for Trump’s White Home ballroom
Arise Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. (TechCrunch)
+ Crypto twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are additionally among the many donors. (CNN)
6 US investigators have busted a sequence of high-tech playing schemes
Involving specially-designed contact lenses and x-ray tables. (NYT $)
+ The case follows insider bets on basketball and poker video games rigged by the mafia. (BBC)
+ Computerized card shufflers may be compromised, too. (Wired $)
7 Deepfake harassment instruments are simply accessible on social media
And easy net searches. (404 Media)
+ Bans on deepfakes take us solely to date—right here’s what we actually want. (MIT Know-how Overview)
8 How algorithms can drive up costs on-line
Even benign algorithms can generally yield dangerous outcomes for patrons. (Quanta Journal)
+ When AIs cut price, a much less superior agent might value you. (MIT Know-how Overview)
9 Tips on how to give an LLM mind rot
Practice it on brief “superficial” posts from X, for a begin. (Ars Technica)
+ AI skilled on AI rubbish spits out AI rubbish. (MIT Know-how Overview)
10 Meet the tech employees utilizing AI as little as attainable
In a bid to maintain their expertise sharp. (WP $)
+ This professor thinks there are different methods to show folks learn how to study. (The Atlantic $)
Quote of the day
“He was convicted. He’s not harmless.”
—Republican Senator Thom Tillis criticises Donald Trump’s determination to pardon convicted cryptocurrency mogul Changpeng Zhao, Politico reviews.
Another factor
We’ve by no means understood how starvation works. That is perhaps about to vary.
If you’re ravenous, starvation is sort of a demon. It awakens essentially the most historic and primitive components of the mind, then commandeers different neural equipment to do its bidding till it will get what it desires.
Though scientists have had some success in stimulating starvation in mice, we nonetheless don’t actually perceive how the impulse to eat works. Now, some specialists are following identified components of the neural starvation circuits into uncharted components of the mind to attempt to discover out.
Their work might shed new mild on the elements which have brought on the variety of chubby adults worldwide to skyrocket in recent times. And it might additionally assist clear up the mysteries round how and why a brand new class of weight-loss medicine appears to work so nicely. Learn the total story.
—Adam Piore
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