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Thomas Macaulay

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
45
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Thomas Macaulay

    The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries (opens the original)

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    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. A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. The researchers hope the “mindreading” tool could reveal more about how the brain works. It could also help locked-in people com

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Thomas Macaulay

    The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response (opens the original)

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    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. Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the computers of AI company Hugging Face, the company is still dealing with the fallout. Last week brought news of another hack, this time into Australia’s national health-care system, which the government says OpenAI did not report for 84 days. But OpenAI insists it is not on the back foot. “I do kind of reject the

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Thomas Macaulay

    The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem (opens the original)

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    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. With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies being unraveled, and Big Tech backpedaling on its climate ambitions, it can be tempting to give in to climate doom and defeatism. But despite the headwinds, the world has still made incredible progress. That’s why MIT Technology Review publishes its annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch. Once

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Thomas Macaulay

    The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits (opens the original)

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    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. The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next,” will focus on scoring algorithms that use AI and machine learning, as well as a technique called “standoff sensing,” which can take physiological readings

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Thomas Macaulay

    The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week (opens the original)

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    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. Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced plans to introduce legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the country’s southern border. The announcement comes just days after publication of an MIT Technology Review investigation, “Dying on Camera,” which looked at deaths near these towers. Nearly one in four d

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