The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

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. Material cultures look in the past to build the future despite decades of environmentally friendly certifications, better material procurement and the use of sustainable materials. The built environment is still responsible for a third of global emissions worldwide. According to a UN report from 2024, the building sector is "clearly behind" to become more sustainable. The change in the way we build and operate buildings remains the key to combating climate change. In London -based non -profit material cultures examines how tradition can be used in a new way to repair the contemporary building system. Since many other practitioners are looking for artificial intelligence and other high-tech approaches, material cultures focus on sustainability and find creative ways to convert local materials into new buildings. Read the whole story. - Patrick Sisson This story comes from our new print edition, which deals with the future of security. Subscribe here to catch future copies when you land. With Technology Review says: How a top Chinese AI model overcome the US sanctions at the beginning of this year, the AI ​​community via Deepseek R1, a new open source argumentation model, was massive. The model was developed by the Chinese Ki -Startup Deepseek, which claims that R1 corresponds to the Chatgpt O1 from Openaai via several important benchmarks, but works to a fraction of the costs. The success of Deepseek is even more remarkable in view of the restrictions that Chinese AI companies confronted in the form of an increase in US export controls for state-of-the-art chips. Read the whole story. This is our latest story told in a Technology Review that we publish in Spotify and Apple podcasts every week. 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 Google will not be forced to sell Chrome after a federal judge has decided instead that it has to share search data with its competitors. (Politico) + He also prevented Google from handing over business to do the standard search engine on people's phones. (The register) + The company's critics believe that the judgment does not go far enough. (The verge) 2 Openai adds chatgpt emotional guardrails. The new rules should better protect teenagers and people in need of protection. (Axios) + Family dead teenagers say that AI companies do not do enough. (Ft $) + a Ki chatbot told a user how he kills himself - but the company doesn't want to "censor" it. (With Technology Review) 3 China's military has shown its robot wolves alongside the underwater torpedos and hyperphas of crusades. (BBC) + XI Jinping has urged to modernize the world's largest standing army. (CNN) + phase two of the military AI has arrived. (With Technology Review) 4 ICE has to find the work with a previously banned software from Spyware Angietor Paragon Solutions on the equipment of journalists who were found on the equipment of journalists at the beginning of this year. (WP $) + The tool can manipulate the recorder of a phone so that it becomes a hidden hearing aid. (The Guardian) 5 An identical twin was convicted of a crime based on the DNA analysis. In the United States, the technology was used successfully for the first time and solves a 38-year cold case. (The Guardian) 6 people who understand Ki the least are most likely those who use those with a better understanding of how AI works, more across their limits. (WSJ $) + What is AI? (With Technology Review) 7 BMW is preparing for the unveiling of a super smart-EV. (Ft $) 8 sick and lonely people turn to AI doctors who are too busy to spend a lot of time with patients. Chatbots fill the emptiness. (Rest of the world) + AI companies have no longer warned that their chatbots are not doctors. (With Technology Review) 9 around 90% of life on earth are still unknown, but the light on these mysterious organisms is essential for our future survival. (VOX) 10 waxworms could help combat our plastic pollution problem. (WIRED $) + Do you think that your plastic is recycled? Think again. (With Technology Review) quote of the day "It is a Wirely burger". - Gabriel Weinberg, Managing Director of Search Engine Duckduckgo, responds to the judge's decision in the case of Google Chrome Chrome Monopoly, reports the New York Times. Another thing why we can no longer afford to ignore the case for climate adjustment in the nineties. Who suggests that we have to adapt to climate change and at the same time shorten the emissions. Most of the climate change researchers believed that adaptation studies would distract from the most important work to keep the pollution away from the atmosphere. Despite this enemy environment, a handful of experts are already sowing the seeds for a new research area entitled "Adaptation to Climate Change": study and politics about how the world was able to prepare for the new disasters and dangers on a warming planet and adapt to the adaptation to the new disasters and dangers. Today your research is more important than ever. Read the whole story. - Madeline Ostrander We can still have nice things to get comfort, fun and distraction to lighten your day. ,,