The Download: measuring returns on R&D, and AI’s creative potential

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. How do you measure the returns for F&E expenditure in view of the draconian cuts in US federal funding for science. It is worth asking some persistent money questions: How much should we spend on F&E? How much value do we get from such investments? To answer that in several youngest work, the economists have addressed this topic on clever new species. And although they ask something different, their conclusions share a conclusion: F&E is actually one of the better long -term investments that the government can make. Read the whole story. - David Rotman This article is part of Technology Review that our series designs the complex, messy world of technology to understand what comes next. You can read more from the series here. If you want to read more about the economic situation of America, take a look at: + comprehensive tariffs could endanger the US manufacturing driver - and you could stun the ability to achieve tomorrow's breakthroughs. Read the whole story. + The surprising barrier that prevents us from building the housing that we need. Read the whole story. + How to make AI for wealth. + People are concerned that the AI ​​will take on the work of everyone. We have been here before. With Technology Review says: How AI can help end creativity, forget creativity with one click. Artists and musicians find new ways to make art with AI by injecting friction, challenge and ser oversipality into the process. This is our latest story, which is told in a podcast with -technology evaluation, which we publish every week in Spotify and Apple podcasts. Simply navigate to Technology Review that was told on both platform and follow us to get all of our new content while you are published. The must-reads that I combed on the Internet to find them from fun/most important/fascinating/fascinating stories about technology today. 1 TikKs buyer can include Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz. They would control around 80% of the business, with the Chinese shareholders held the rest. (WSJ $) + We still have many unanswered questions about the business. (Bloomberg $) + It was conveyed in Madrid. (The Guardian) 2 Openai works on a Chatgpt version for young people and uses AGE Prefiction-Tech to exclude them from the standard version. (Axios) + The move comes because the US Senate hears evidence of chatbot damage. (404 media) + the impending procedure against AI comradeship. (With Technology Review) 3 China prevented technology companies from buying the Nvidia chips to strengthen its own companies. (FT $) + Alibaba and bytedance were instructed to end orders. (Bloomberg $) 4 Anthropic refuses to use the law enforcement authorities for the dismay of the White House. (Semafor) 5 Tesla doors can examine passengers in the vehicles of the vehicles of the vehicles after people have reported that they are forced to break windows to access children. (Nyt $) 6 How to train your models to do employees to do employees after you have hit a wall, throw money on the problem. (The information $ $) + new training "environments" are currently a hot AI topic. (TechCrunch) + how AI shakes corporate hierarchies. (WSJ $) 7 within Damascus' offer to become a technology center was accepted by the new government by the city's tech industry. (Rest of the world) 8 Shipping to the ISS was delayed that NASA accuses the engine problems. (ARS Technica) + the large commercial takeover of low Earth orbit. (IEEE spectrum) + bright LEDs could spell the end of the dark sky. (With Technology Review) 10 You can now book a safari through Uber expedition in the Nairobi National Park, someone? (Bloomberg $) Quote of the day "What started as a homework helper gradually turned into a familiar and then as a suicide coach." -Matthew Raine, whose 16-year-old son Adam died of suicide after repeating his intentions, reports a subcommittee of the Senate who examines the Chatbot danger. Another thing that comes for music, while large voice models that generate text have exploded in the past three years, is another kind of AI based on so -called diffusion models, an unprecedented influence on creative domains. By converting random noise into coherent patterns, diffusion models can create new images, videos or language that are guided using text requirements or other input data. The best cannot distinguish from the work of people who are now marching these models into a creative field that is probably more susceptible to disorders than any other: music. Read the whole story. - James O’Donnell We can still have nice things to get comfort, fun and distraction to lighten your day. (Have any ideas? Write me a line or see it on me.) + Essen in all shapes and shapes is greater than ever. Why don't we look at cook shows anymore? + Kate Bush's love dogs are 40 years old this year, but still sound as fresh as always. + So maximize your chances of booking a bargain flight. + Robert Redford, you were unique.