The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

This is today's edition of the download, our weekday newsletter, which offers a daily dose of what is going on in the world of technology. We cannot make American children healthy again without tackling the gun crisis this week. The Trump government has published a strategy to improve health and well-being from American children. The title was - you suspected - our children are well healthy. It indicates that American children should eat healthy. And you should get more movement. But there is a blatant omission. The most common cause of death for American children and adolescents is not ultra -proiced or exposure to chemicals. It is gun violence. The news of this week about top -class shootings in schools in the United States are even more striking this separation. Experts believe that it is time to treat weapons in the United States as what it is: a crisis of public health. Read the whole story. - Jessica Hamzelou This article was first published in the study, the weekly biotech newsletter from with Technology Review. To get it every Thursday in your inbox and first read items like this, register here. How do KI models generate videos? It was a big year for video generation. In the past nine months, Openaai Sora has made Google Deepmind started VEO 3 and the video startup start-up train from Gen-4. Everyone can produce video clips that (almost) impossible from actual filmed film materials or CGI animations. The disadvantage is that the creators compete with AI slop and fill social media feeds with fake news materials. The video also consumes a large amount of energy, many times more than text or image generation. Let's take a moment to talk about the technique that it brings you up and running. Read the whole story. - The sky of Douglas is explained by Technology Review. Our series designs the complex, messy world of technology to understand what comes next. You can read more from the series here. Meet our 2025 innovator of the year: Sneha Goenka up to a quarter of the children who enter the intensive care unit have non -diagnosed genetic conditions. In order to be treated correctly, you must first receive diagnoses - which means that your genomes are sequenced. This process usually takes up to seven weeks. Unfortunately, this is often too slow for a critically ill child. Hospitals may soon have a faster option, thanks to a groundbreaking system, which was partly built by Sneha Goenka, an assistant professor for electrical and computer technology at Princeton, and the 2025 innovator of 2025 by with Technology Review. Read everything about Goenka and your work in this profile. - Helen Thomson and our innovator of the year are one of the Biotech laureates in our 35 innovators under 35 list for 2025. Meet the rest of our biotech and materials innovators and the full list here. The must-reads that I combed on the Internet to find them from fun/most important/fascinating/fascinating stories about technology today. 1 Openai and Microsoft have agreed a revised deal, but have not announced any details about this deal. (Axios) + the news come, as Openaai keeps watching his profit -oriented pivot. (ARS Technica) + The largest startup in the world will soon need more paid users. (WSJ $) 2 A child died of a measles complication in Los Angeles, which she fell ill with the virus before it was old enough to be vaccinated. (ARS Technica) + infants are best protected by the immunity of the community. (La Times $) + You originally recovered from measles before you developed the condition. (Cnn) + Why vaccines in childhood are a success story for public health. (With Technology Review) 3 Ukrainian drone attacks triggered Internet blackouts in Russia. The Kremlin cut internet access to thwart the mobile drones. (FT $) + Great Britain is ready to produce drones to support Ukraine. (Sky News) + on site in the largest star shop of Ukraine. (With Technology Review) 4 Demis Hasabis says that ai could reduce drugs to less than a year or maybe even faster. (Bloomberg $) + but there is a good reason to be skeptical about this claim. (Ft $) + a AI-controlled "drug factory" claims to have hit a large milestone. (With Technology Review) 5 How Chatbots change, as we believe that we should not outsource our critical thinking. (Undark) + AI companies have ceased to warn them that their chatbots are not doctors. (With Technology Review) 6 fraudsters threaten Small companies with one-star reviews online reviews can carry out or break young companies, and fraudsters know. (Nyt $) 7 Why humanoid robots do not lose time shortly, the industry has a big hype problem. (IEEE spectrum) + Chinese Tech -Riese ants group showed its own humanoid machine. (The verge) + why the humanoid workforce is late. (With Technology Review) 8 Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue in a further case of alleged copyright infringement. (Reuters) + What's next for AI copyright lawsuits? (With Technology Review) 9 where we will probably find an alien life in the next decade warning: Hollywood may have given us unrealistic expectations. (BBC) 10 Would you like to build a trillion dollar company? Then kiss your social life good. (WSJ $) Quote of the day "No, I have to use my brain again and from December 2024 100% of my code write like a cave person." -A Hacker -Jewer -Schrach about a service failure in which anthropic users could not access the AI ​​coding tools, reports Ars Technica. Another thing that Africa has to do to become an important AI player Africa is still early in the process of introducing AI technologies. However, researchers say that the continent is clearly hospitable for several reasons, including a relatively young and increasingly well-trained population, a rapidly growing ecosystem of AI startups and many potential consumers. However, ambitious efforts to develop AI tools that answer the needs of the Africans are exposed to numerous hurdles. Read our story to learn what you are and how you could be overcome. - Abdullahi Tsanni We can still have nice things for comfort, fun and distraction to lighten your day. (Have any ideas? Write me a line or skeet it on me.) + The fascinating, unexpected origins of the favorite employee of all - karaoke. + Why the Twilight -Juggernaut only to die. + If you belong to the mass of excited Hollow Knight fans, there are a few tips to achieve the early phases of the new silk game. + A Sloe Gin Bramble Pie sounds like the perfect way to greet autumn.