How the grid can ride out winter storms
The eastern half of the US saw a monster snowstorm over the weekend. The good news is the grid has…
Month: January 2026
Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong”
“Who here believes involuntary death is a good thing?” Nathan Cheng has been delivering similar versions of this speech over…
Roundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear
AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite.…
What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents. …
Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary
From the Gemini Calendar prompt-injection attack of 2026 to the September 2025 state-sponsored hack using Anthropic’s Claude code as an…
The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly”
When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk…
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a…
Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live…
The Download: OpenAI’s plans for science, and chatbot age verification
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world…
Here’s our first look at Samsung’s upcoming 25W wireless charger
Last year’s Samsung Galaxy S25 series brought 15W wireless charging via the Qi2 standard, which did not provide any speed…