The Download: fully artificial chicken eggs and why Musk lost

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. Colossal Biosciences is growing chickens in a 3D-printed artificial eggshell The baby chicks were shifting and starting to pip—or trying to hatch. Instead, these chickens were growing inside transparent 3D-printed plastic cups at the Dallas headquarters of Colossal Biosciences.

The biotech company yesterday claimed it has developed a “fully artificial egg” as part of its effort to resurrect extinct avian species, including birds like the dodo and the giant moa. Some scientists think Colossal is overstating the breakthrough. But the technology may represent an early step toward artificial wombs. Read the full story on the science and controversy behind the artificial eggshell . Elon Musk has lost his landmark lawsuit against OpenAI, which centered on allegations that its cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman misled him about the company’s nonprofit mission. But what really happened in the courtroom, and what does it mean for the AI race? AI reporter and attorney Michelle Kim, who covered the trial for MIT Technology Review , joined our editor in chief Mat Honan to unpack it all in an exclusive Roundtables discussion yesterday. MIT Technology Review Narrated: this scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature of around −146 degrees °C for over a decade, largely undisturbed. Before he died in 2014, Coles had the brain frozen with an ambitious goal in mind: reanimation. His friend, cryobiologist Greg Fahy, believes it could be revived one day.

Key points

• The biotech company yesterday claimed it has developed a “fully artificial egg” as part of its effort to resurrect extinct avian species, including birds like the dodo and the giant moa.
• Some scientists think Colossal is overstating the breakthrough.
• But the technology may represent an early step toward artificial wombs.
• Read the full story on the science and controversy behind the artificial eggshell .
• Elon Musk has lost his landmark lawsuit against OpenAI, which centered on allegations that its cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman misled him about the company’s nonprofit mission.