The Download: ancient DNA’s modern uses, and an AI-artist collaboration
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Summary
The latest edition of MIT Technology Review focuses on relationships, both human and robotic, and the issues surrounding them in the modern world.
The cover story is on how non-binary artist Sougwen Chung collaborates with AI and robots to make art and challenge perceptions of technology and human creativity.
Other articles cover topics such as ancient DNA being used to trace human migrations and the risks that the new three-parent baby technique could pose to the children who undergo it.
The “Deep Dive” article covers China’s new DeepSeek AI search engine, which has been removed from app stores over privacy concerns, and Baidu’s and OpenAI’s responses.
The “Download” section covers blockchain’s role in combating climate change and useful quantum computing.
The “Quote of the Day” is, “He seems to have ghosted his own company,” in reference to Elon Musk’s recent lack of presence at Tesla.
And the “Big Story” is about how the three-parent baby technique to avoid inherited illness may not work as hoped due to the phenomenon of reversion.