That is immediately’s version of The Obtain, our weekday e-newsletter that gives a every day dose of what’s occurring on this planet of know-how.
What’s subsequent for carbon elimination?
After years of development that spawned a whole bunch of startups, the nascent carbon elimination sector seems to be going through a reckoning.
Operating Tide, a promising aquaculture firm, shut down its operations final summer season, and a handful of different corporations have shuttered, downsized, or pivoted in latest months as nicely. Enterprise investments have flagged. And the collective business hasn’t made a complete lot extra progress towards Operating Tide’s bold plans to sequester a billion tons of carbon dioxide by this 12 months.
The hype part is over and the sector is sliding into the turbulent enterprise trough that follows, specialists warn.
And the open query is: If the carbon elimination sector is heading right into a painful if inevitable clearing-out cycle, the place will it go from there? Learn the complete story.
—James Temple
This story is a part of MIT Expertise Evaluate’s What’s Subsequent collection, which seems to be throughout industries, developments, and applied sciences to present you a primary take a look at the long run. You possibly can 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 may help reply that query—particularly with regards to ache.
Within the newest subject of MIT Expertise Evaluate’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, may 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. And so they open up all types of thorny questions on how we expertise, talk, and even deal with ache. Learn the complete story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
This text first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Expertise Evaluate’s weekly biotech e-newsletter. To obtain it in your inbox each Thursday, and skim articles like this primary, join right here.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to search out you immediately’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.
1 Meta’s attorneys suggested staff to take away elements of its teen psychological well being analysis
Its counsel informed researchers to dam or replace their work to scale back authorized legal responsibility. (Bloomberg $)
+ Meta just lately laid off greater than 100 workers 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 go away that form 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, nevertheless. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
5 Huge Tech is footing the invoice for Trump’s White Home ballroom
Rise up 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 collection 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)
+ Automated card shufflers might be compromised, too. (Wired $)
7 Deepfake harassment instruments are simply accessible on social media
And easy internet searches. (404 Media)
+ Bans on deepfakes take us solely to this point—right here’s what we actually want. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
8 How algorithms can drive up costs on-line
Even benign algorithms can typically yield unhealthy outcomes for patrons. (Quanta Journal)
+ When AIs cut price, a much less superior agent may price you. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)
9 The right way 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 Expertise Evaluate)
10 Meet the tech staff utilizing AI as little as potential
In a bid to maintain their abilities sharp. (WP $)
+ This professor thinks there are different methods to show individuals find out how to be taught. (The Atlantic $)
Quote of the day
“He was convicted. He’s not harmless.”
—Republican Senator Thom Tillis criticises Donald Trump’s resolution to pardon convicted cryptocurrency mogul Changpeng Zhao, Politico studies.
Another factor
We’ve by no means understood how starvation works. That could be about to alter.
If you’re ravenous, starvation is sort of a demon. It awakens essentially the most historical and primitive elements of the mind, then commandeers different neural equipment to do its bidding till it will get what it needs.
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 elements of the neural starvation circuits into uncharted elements of the mind to try to discover out.
Their work may shed new mild on the elements which have brought about the variety of obese adults worldwide to skyrocket in recent times. And it may 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 complete story.
—Adam Piore
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