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. How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it.
This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy has long been a vocal critic of vaccines. He has spread misinformation about the effects of vaccines. Kennedy has his supporters. But not everyone who opts not to vaccinate shares his worldview.
Understanding those reasons will help us tackle an issue considered to be a huge global health problem today. And plenty of researchers are working on tools to do just that. Read the full story. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. The tech world is abuzz over a new open-source reasoning AI model developed by DeepSeek, a Chinese startup.
Its success is even more remarkable given the constraints that Chinese AI companies face due to US export controls on cutting-edge chips. Register here. MIT Technology Review. IEEE Spectrum. It sucks. September Greg Rutkowski is a Polish digital artist who uses classical styles to create dreamy landscapes. His name is one of the most commonly used prompts in the open-source AI art generator Stable Diffusion.
But this and other open-source programs are built by scraping images from the internet, often without permission and proper attribution to artists. And artists like Rutkowski have had enough.
