WorldPingThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts.
Platform, chip and AI decisions set the terms other companies have to build on, so a single announcement here tends to ripple through products, supply chains and regulation.
When each newsroom published on this story, oldest first — all times UTC.
We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs
The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects
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This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an aging meeting in Boston, these drugs seem to affect at least some measures of biological age.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by MIT Tech Review
WorldPingMuch of the fishmeal and fish oil that support seafood consumed in France come from global supply chains linked to pollution, labour abuses, overfishing, and food insecurity in poorer countries.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by France 24
Finns have many reasons to feel content, but the country's pile of debt is not one of them. Russia's war in Ukraine has added to the fiscal burden. Can the Nordic nation absorb another shock?
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Deutsche Welle
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