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The Download: Big Tech’s carbon removals plans, and the next wave of nuclear reactors
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Big Tech’s big bet on a controversial carbon removal tactic Microsoft, JP MorganChase, and a tech company consortium that includes Alphabet, Meta, Shopify, and Stripe have all recently struck multimillion-dollar deals to pay…
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Two-Thirds of Small Businesses Are Already Using AI — Here’s How to Get Even More Out of It
Small businesses can achieve greater efficiency and growth by understanding the difference between generative and agentic AI use cases.
Nuclearn gets $10.5M to help the nuclear industry embrace AI
Nuclearn has developed AI tools to help reactor operators automate routine paperwork. “Think of it as the junior employee,” the company tells customers.
The Download: meet our AI innovators, and what happens when therapists use AI covertly
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the AI honorees on our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025 Each year, we select 35 outstanding individuals under the age of 35 who are using technology to tackle tough problems…
Walking Away From My Co-founder Was the Best Business Decision I’ve Made — Here’s Why
I’m a proud solo founder now, but that wasn’t always the plan.
Blackrock-backed Minute Media acquires Indian AI startup that extracts sports highlights
VideoVerse is an Indian AI startup that lets broadcasters extract highlights and create content from sports footage.
Help! My therapist is secretly using ChatGPT
In Silicon Valley’s imagined future, AI models are so empathetic that we’ll use them as therapists. They’ll provide mental-health care for millions, unimpeded by the pesky requirements for human counselors, like the need for graduate degrees, malpractice insurance, and sleep. Down here on Earth, something very different has been happening. Last week, we published a…
AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?
The rising popularity of AI is driving an increase in electricity demand so significant it has the potential to reshape our grid. Energy consumption by data centers has gone up by 80% from 2020 to 2025 and is likely to keep growing. Electricity prices are already rising, especially in places where data centers are most…
Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden
Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey Crownhart and I spent six months researching the climate and energy burden of AI, we came to see one number in particular as our white whale: how much energy the leading AI models, like ChatGPT or Gemini, use up when generating a single response. This fundamental number remained…
OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring
OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company’s efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, but the company says it has no plans to leave.