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The Download: chaos at OpenAI, and the spa heated by bitcoin mining
This 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. Inside the story that enraged OpenAI —Niall Firth, executive editor, MIT Technology Review In 2019, Karen Hao, a senior reporter with MIT Technology Review, pitched me a story about a then little-known company,…
This 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.
Inside the story that enraged OpenAI
—Niall Firth, executive editor, MIT Technology Review
In 2019, Karen Hao, a senior reporter with MIT Technology Review, pitched me a story about a then little-known company, OpenAI. It was her biggest assignment to date. Hao’s feat of reporting took a series of twists and turns over the coming months, eventually revealing how OpenAI’s ambition had taken it far afield from its original mission.
The finished story was a prescient look at a company at a tipping point—or already past it. And OpenAI was not happy with the result. Hao’s new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, is an in-depth exploration of the company that kick-started the AI arms race, and what that race means for all of us. This excerpt is the origin story of that reporting.
This spa’s water is heated by bitcoin mining
At first glance, the Bathhouse spa in Brooklyn looks not so different from other high-end spas. What sets it apart is out of sight: a closet full of cryptocurrency-mining computers that not only generate bitcoins but also heat the spa’s pools, marble hammams, and showers.
When cofounder Jason Goodman opened Bathhouse’s first location in Williamsburg in 2019, he used conventional pool heaters. But after diving deep into the world of bitcoin, he realized he could fit cryptocurrency mining seamlessly into his business. Read the full story.
—Carrie Klein
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Nvidia wants to build an AI supercomputer in Taiwan
As Trump’s tariffs upend existing supply chains. (WSJ $)
+ Jensen Huang has denied that Nvidia’s chips are being diverted into China. (Bloomberg $)
2 xAI’s Grok dabbled in Holocaust denial
The chatbot said it was “skeptical” about points that historians agree are facts. (Rolling Stone $)
+ It blamed the comments on a programming error. (The Guardian)
3 Apple is planning to overhaul Siri entirely
To make it an assistant fit for the AI age. (Bloomberg $)
4 Dentists are worried by RFK Jr’s fluoride ban
Particularly in rural America. (Ars Technica)
+ Florida has become the second state to ban fluoride in public water. (NBC News)
5 Fewer people want to work in America’s factories
That’s a problem when Trump is so hell-bent on kickstarting the manufacturing industry. (WSJ $)
+ Sweeping tariffs could threaten the US manufacturing rebound. (MIT Technology Review)
6 Meet the crypto investors hoping to bend the President’s ear
They’re treating Trump’s meme coin dinner as an opportunity to push their agendas. (WP $)
+ Many of them are offloading their coins, too. (Wired $)
+ Crypto bigwigs are targets for criminals. (WSJ $)
+ Bodyguards and other forms of security are becoming de rigueur. (Bloomberg $)
7 How the US reversed the overdose epidemic
Naloxone is a major factor. (Vox)
+ How the federal government is tracking changes in the supply of street drugs. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Chatbots really love the heads of the companies that made them
And are not so fond of the leaders of its rivals. (FT $)
+ What if we could just ask AI to be less biased? (MIT Technology Review)
9 Technology is a double-edged sword 
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