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Lee Vinsel is a technology historian who covers a range of topics including AI's societal impacts and the ethics of genetic research. His work often explores the tension between technological disruption and the importance of maintenance.
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China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next
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The Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft
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World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
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The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything
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The Download: the hantavirus outbreak and Musk v. Altman week 2
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MIT Tech Review explores AI
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The Download: the tech reshaping IVF and the rise of balcony solar
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Musk v. OpenAI trial: Musk claims deception in founding, discusses AI risks and xAI's model usage
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The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs
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Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining
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Trump’s mass firing just dealt another blow to American science
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The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem
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The Download: DeepSeek’s latest AI breakthrough, and the race to build world models
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The Download: supercharged scams and studying AI healthcare
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Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.
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Will fusion power get cheap? Don’t count on it.
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LA subway upgrades, plus human noise impacts animals
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MIT team finds clues to North Pole's past
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AI labor displacement, synthetic bacteria top tech news
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Colossal Biosciences claims cloned red wolves, experts question reality
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AI's reality in warfare, Neanderthal genetics research
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Stewart Brand's new book champions maintenance over disruption
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