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Bye bye Fable
Hey folks, Fable went from “new best model” to “not available” in about 3 days. Anthropic launched [Claude Fable 5]($1) on June 9. Fable was the Mythos-class model for general use but with guardrail...
The first big exit in AI
Hey folks, Heading to a Q&A with Sam Altman later today in London so a bit rushed for time to part any ‘wisdom’. I’m currently still mid-building the reference manual, but it’s coming along now! I’...
Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check
Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fusel...
Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar
*Most of Kenya’s power grid runs on renewables. But with 25% of communities lacking centralized electricity, the nation is looking to off-grid solar to hit its goal of delivering [universal electricit...
The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception
*This is today's edition of *[*The Download*]($1),* our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.* Solar geoengineering, the controversial idea that ...
The search for dark matter has been blown wide open
Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot.Isolated deep beneath these rocky shields, massive detecto...
Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges
Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of *Pull in case of climate emergency to scatter light-reflecting particles to bounce sunlight out of th...
The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar
*This is today's edition of *[*The Download*]($1),* our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.* For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly int...
Brain-computer interface trials are taking off
This week, I covered [the story of Casey Harrell]($1)—a man with ALS who is “the first power user” of a brain implant, according to the researchers who worked with him. Harrell is paralyzed and unable...
The inevitable weakness of metrics
There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate t...
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had [solved a mathematical bottleneck]($1) that had been holding back large language mod...
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
*This is today's edition of *[*The Download*]($1),* our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.* AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last m...