Harry Booth

Harry is an editorial fellow. He covers tech, with a focus on AI. He is a Tarbell fellow.

Recent Articles

Michael D. Smith: TIME100 Climate

For decades, AmeriCorps volunteers have been on the front lines of climate change by helping to restore natural spaces and support communities impacted by extreme weather events. But the American Climate Corps, an initiative announced...

By Harry Booth

Boyan Slat: TIME100 Climate

As if entangling wildlife and contaminating seafood weren’t enough, ocean plastic may be sabotaging the planet’s natural defenses against climate change. A 2023 study suggests microplastics may interfere with phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms that help...

By Harry Booth

What Donald Trump's Win Means For AI

Following a historic victory at the polls, what will a second Trump term mean for America's AI future?

By Harry Booth and Tharin Pillay

How AI Is Being Used to Respond to Natural Disasters in Cities

AI is spurring a new generation of earthquake monitoring and climate forecasting systems.

By Harry Booth and Tharin Pillay

An AI Solution for Stutters

As someone who stutters, Joris Castermans, the CEO and founder of Dutch startup Whispp, knew whispering helps with fluency. Castermans undertook the “really labor intensive” work of creating a dataset of phrases in both spoken...

By Harry Booth

AI Seer Facticity.AI

Find out why AI Seer Facticity.AI is one of the best inventions of 2024

By Harry Booth

Keeping Chatbots in Check

Find out why Aporia Guardrails is one of the best inventions of 2024

By Harry Booth

The Largest-Ever Chip

To run an AI model, computers must constantly shift vast amounts of data between separate memory and logic chips, a process that chokes performance. To solve this, Cerebras Systems in 2019 engineered a dinner plate–sized...

By Harry Booth

Business-Centric AI

Cohere's Command R+, an AI large language model released in April, excels at tasks businesses need: summarizing documents, answering questions based on that information, and responding in multiple languages. It also has the ability to...

By Harry Booth

Finding Cures

In 2020, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaFold 2, a machine-learning algorithm that in 2022 would prove capable of predicting, with near-experimental accuracy, the structure of nearly every known protein. The breakthrough recently earned co-founder and CEO...

By Harry Booth

AI Explains It All

Released in July 2023 by Google Labs, the AI-powered NotebookLM helps users make sense of complex information by digesting up to 50 sources—documents, YouTube videos, even entire books—and summarizing them, suggesting follow-up questions, or creating...

By Harry Booth

Generative AI for Marketers

Marketers were quick to jump on the generative AI trend, using it to draft content. But Abhay Parasnis, a former Adobe executive and the founder and CEO of AI marketing company Typeface, says most are...

By Harry Booth

What Teenagers Really Think About AI

A survey by the Center for Youth and AI and YouGov suggests teens via the risks of AI as a top issue for lawmakers.

By Harry Booth

A New Zealand City Could Soon Have a Sky-High Solution for Congestion

Next year, startup Whoosh will begin construction on a gondola-like ride-hailing network in Queenstown—the first of its kind.

By Harry Booth

Thomas Njeru

Smallholder farmers are often just one drought or flood away from a crisis. As the global climate shifts to be hotter and less predictable, the risk they face only stands to grow. Thomas Njeru, the...

By Harry Booth

New Report Provides a Framework for Tackling the Effects of the ‘Climate-Health Crisis’

Less than a third of cities have a resilience plan that integrates climate and health, a Rockefeller Foundation found. It highlights success stories that could show a path forward.

By Harry Booth and Video by Joey Lautrup

This Company is Using 3D Printing and AI to Make Sports Cars

The Czinger 21C uses less material thanks to leveraging new technology.

By Harry Booth and Video by Andrew D. Johnson

Why Sam Altman Is Leaving OpenAI’s Safety Committee

The committee was created to advise OpenAI's board on “critical safety and security” decisions.

By Harry Booth

Sasha Luccioni

About 5 years ago, Sasha Luccioni was researching ways AI could help tackle climate change when a single question prompted her to rethink: What if AI was part of the problem? “Every time you do...

By Harry Booth

Faisal Al Bannai

In 2023, the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), an arm of the Abu Dhabi government, spent millions of dollars building a series of large language models. ATRC secretary general Faisal Al Bannai then decided to...

By Harry Booth
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