The Download: solar geoengineering's future, and OpenAI is being sued Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. But as interest in the idea grows, so do concerns about potential consequences. A startup called Stardust Solutions recently raised a $60 million funding round, the largest known to date for a geoengineering startup. My colleague James Temple has a new story out about the company, and how its emergence is making some researchers nervous. So far, the field has been limited to debates, proposed academic research, and--sure--a few fringe actors to keep an eye on.

Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology's impact on society. Named one of the world's top 100 voices shaping the future of AI, Tim El-Sheikh is a biomedical scientist and ex-pro athlete turned serial deeptech, AI and social entrepreneur since 2001 and is one of the pioneering, first-generation AI founders at London's Silicon Roundabout. Find more from Tim at the CEO Retort . This podcast was created and is run by Ben Byford and collaborators. The podcast, and other content was first created to extend Ben's growing interest in both the AI domain and in the associated ethics.

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GPU prices could follow RAM's big rise Google's Gemini AI comes to Chrome on iPhone and iPad It can summarize pages, create a FAQ on a topic and modify recipes for your dietary needs. After rolling it out on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, Google is finally bringing its built-in Gemini AI experience to iPhone and iPad. It offers new features like summarizing pages and helping you test your knowledge about a subject you're learning. As with any AI tool, though, it shouldn't be trusted for anything important given the possibility of hallucinations and other errors. When it arrives on your iOS device, tapping the spark icon at the left of the address bar (in place of the Google Lens camera) brings up a Pages tool that offers Lens and the new feature, Ask Gemini.

Pine is the Creative Director at TIME. To illustrate the choice of the Architects of AI as TIME's 2025 Person of the Year, we asked two separate artists to help us visualize the incredibly complex technological revolution that is currently underway. London-based illustrator and graphics animator Peter Crowther and digital painter Jason Seiler each created an image that speaks to the duality AI has produced - man vs. machine. Inspired by the inner workings of computer chips, Crowther's intricate AI structure looms large over the busy construction site.

The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut mother who was killed by her son in August filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming ChatGPT amplified his "paranoid delusions."

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Should private companies be able to dim the sun? Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. But as interest in the idea grows, so do concerns about potential consequences. A startup called Stardust Solutions recently raised a $60 million funding round, the largest known to date for a geoengineering startup. My colleague James Temple has a new story out about the company, and how its emergence is making some researchers nervous.

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Flags flutter as soldiers participate in a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing in September. The maiden flight of the unmanned Jiutian drone mothership has highlighted its advances in unmanned aerial vehicles capable of unleashing weaponized swarms. China conducted the maiden flight of what is considered to be the world's largest drone mothership, underscoring its advances in unmanned aerial vehicles capable of unleashing weaponized swarms. The unmanned Jiutian completed its first mission in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday without elaborating. The aerial vehicle has been likened to an aircraft carrier for its ability to host multiple drones and missiles.