The Download: how China’s universities approach AI, and the pitfalls of welfare algorithms
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Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less
Just two years ago, Lorraine He, now a 24-year-old law student, was told to avoid
When progress doesn’t feel like home: Why many are hesitant to join the AI migration
What happens if the AI migration accelerates and sizable portions of the workforce are slow
Why AI is making us lose our minds (and not in the way you’d think)
The question isn’t, “will you use AI?” The question is, “what kind of AI user
Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao
The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in
New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examples
Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) tackle complex reasoning tasks while being smaller, faster, and more data-efficient
CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyone
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed
It’s Qwen’s summer: new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 tops OpenAI, Gemini reasoning models on key benchmarks
The new Qwen3-Thinking-2507, as we’ll call it for short, now leads or closely trails top-performing
The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat
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The deadly saga of the controversial gene therapy Elevidys
It has been a grim few months for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) community. There
How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs
Nonprofits are striving to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears
Anthropic unveils ‘auditing agents’ to test for AI misalignment
Anthropic developed its auditing agents while testing Claude Opus 4 for alignment issues.Read More
Freed says 20,000 clinicians are using its medical AI transcription ‘scribe,’ but competition is rising fast
Rather than chase enterprise contracts with large hospital systems, Freed has focused on small clinics
Trump’s AI Action Plan is a distraction
On Wednesday, President Trump issued three executive orders, delivered a speech, and released an action
America’s AI watchdog is losing its bite
Most Americans encounter the Federal Trade Commission only if they’ve been scammed: It handles identity