From Meta CTO to climate tech investor: Mike Schroepfer on his big pivot
We’re here to prove that if you pick the right climate tech companies with the right founders, that can be...
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Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around
The subject is genome editing. Of course, it’s a technology for changing the DNA inside of individual cells, including embryos....
The Download: AI’s math solutions, and brewing beer with sunlight
AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, they’re nowhere near as good at solving math...
How our genome is like a generative AI model
But the recipe metaphor is too vague, says Mitchell. Instead, he and his colleague Nick Cheney at the University of...
Roundtables: CRISPR Babies—Six years later
CRISPR Babies: Six years laterSpeakers: He Jiankui, CRISPR Pioneer, Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine, and Mat Honan, editor in...
A new tool for copyright holders can show if their work is in AI training data
These AI copyright traps tap into one of the biggest fights in AI. A number of publishers and writers are...
Google DeepMind’s AI systems can now solve complex math problems
“It is often easier to train a model for mathematics if you have a way to check its answers (e.g.,...
Beer, hydrogen, and heat: Why the US is still trying to make mirror-magnified solar energy work
“Under the Biden-Harris administration, DOE continues to invest in the next-generation solar technologies we need to tackle the climate crisis...
The Download: US quantum computing, and AI garbage
But we know you don’t always have time to sit down and read everything you want to each day—life just...
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage
“You can certainly imagine that the same happens with machine learning models,” he says. “So if the first model has...
The Download: Chinese LLMs, and transforming heavy-duty trucking
When police departments first started buying and deploying bodycams in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown in...
Why Chinese companies are betting on open-source AI
Catch up with China 1. While a Windows system outage disrupted computers across the world on Friday, China was largely...
How battery-powered trailers could transform trucking
Range trailers can also significantly improve emissions of NOx pollutants, which are harmful for human health. In fact, they can...
The Download: AI’s self-regulation promises, and predicting the weather
One year ago, seven leading AI companies—Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—committed with the White House to a...
How’s AI self-regulation going?
But AI nerds may remember that exactly a year ago, on July 21, 2023, Biden was posing with seven top...
How to access Chinese LLM chatbots across the world
For users in the West, finding these Chinese models and trying them out can feel challenging, owing to language barriers...
AI companies promised to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?
RESULT: Good. This is an encouraging result overall. While watermarking remains experimental and is still unreliable, it’s still good to...
Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics
While new machine-learning techniques that predict weather by learning from years of past data are extremely fast and efficient, they...
The Download: technological complexity, and climate change Catan
The philosopher Karl Popper once argued that there are two kinds of problems in the world: clock problems and cloud...
How to fix a Windows PC affected by the global outage
The update was intended for CrowdStrike’s Falcon software, which is “endpoint detection and response” software designed to protect companies’ computer...
