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.
Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less
Just two years ago, students in China were told to avoid using AI for their...
Just two years ago, Lorraine He, now a 24-year-old law student, was told to avoid using AI for her assignments. At the time, to get around a national block on ChatGPT, students had to buy a mirror-site version from a secondhand marketplace. Its use was common, but it was at best...
The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in what it views as the next foundational technology platform.Read More
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding capabilities of proprietary models like GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Flash,...
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.
How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs
Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize...