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AI in the Real World

Where AI meets the physical world: cities, climate, health, and the systems of daily life.

Hand-drawn illustration on a warm cream background. A small metal keyring with a round loop hangs centered in the frame, seen from above. Three items hang from it: a gold-toned key with cut teeth on the left, a silver-toned key with cut teeth in the middle, and a small pale blue-white rectangular blank tag with a hole and no markings on the right. A soft blue-grey shadow spreads beneath the keyring on the cream ground.
Real World 7 min read

It Checked Its Own Work

Anthropic's Claude caught its own analysis error in a lab test, then an outside lab confirmed it was right. Here's why that matters more than speed.

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A watercolor-style aerial illustration of a dense city with a satellite in the upper left beaming down toward the rooftops. Above the buildings float translucent layered planes showing a heat-and-reflectivity gradient, with warm orange zones, cool blue zones, and dashed outlines marking individual buildings. On the right, four buildings are stacked and numbered one to four, each aligned with an icon, a group of people, a school, a lightning bolt, and a house with a tree, along a vertical color bar running from warm orange at the top to cool blue at the bottom.
Real World 6 min read

The Road to Cooling a City Starts From the Roof Up

Google turns satellite imagery into a building-by-building map of which roofs to cool first. The harder question is who chooses the priority.

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