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Gregory Barber

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Gregory Barber is a journalist in San Francisco who previously covered energy and climate for WIRED.

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

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The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

Google DeepMind's AI Dreamed Up 380,000 New Materials. The Next Challenge Is Making Them

A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener

Why Teslas Totaled in the US Are Mysteriously Reincarnated in Ukraine

Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard

The First Small-Scale Nuclear Plant in the US Died Before It Could Live

Everyone Is a Luddite Now

The Annular Solar Eclipse Will Decimate US Solar Energy Output

AI Hurricane Predictions Are Storming the World of Weather Forecasting

Your New Apple Watch Won’t Be Carbon Neutral

Big Batteries Are Booming. So Are Fears They'll Catch Fire

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

Inside the DIY Race to Replicate LK-99

A Vast Untapped Green Energy Source Is Hiding Beneath Your Feet

Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse

Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?

Deepmind’s AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding

The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World