Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe
The chief intellectual-property attorney at the University of California, Randi Jenkins, confirmed the plan to revoke the two patents but...
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A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones
Ai2 achieved this by getting human annotators to describe the images in the model’s training data set in excruciating detail...
The Download: how to connect the US’s grids, and OpenAI’s new voice mode
Michael Skelly hasn’t learned to take no for an answer. For much of the last 15 years, the energy entrepreneur...
OpenAI released its advanced voice mode to more people. Here’s how to get it.
The update also adds new voices. Shortly after the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI was criticized for the similarity between the...
An AI script editor could help decide what films get made in Hollywood
Today it launched a new tool called Callaia, which amateur writers and professional script readers alike can use to analyze...
The Download: AI lessons for the US election, and our climate tech list is coming
We hope you’ll take a look, ideally learn something new, and perhaps even leave feeling encouraged. Read the full story....
Coming soon: Our 2024 list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
The work these companies are doing is needed now more than ever. Global warming appears to be accelerating. The oceans...
What the US can learn from the role of AI in other elections
When the generative-AI boom first kicked off, one of the biggest concerns among pundits and experts was that hyperrealistic AI...
Addressing climate change impacts
This research examines how US businesses view their climate change risk and the steps they are taking to adapt to...
The Download: EV subsidies risks, and introducing The Debrief
Sales of new electric vehicles in Germany have plummeted, dropping nearly 37% in July 2024 from the same month one...
Some countries are ending support for EVs. Is it too soon?
The end of the subsidy program isn’t the only factor contributing to Germany’s EV slowdown, but the abrupt axing certainly...
The Download: training robots for unfamiliar environments, and all-new bird flu
What’s new: It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments they’ve never seen before. Typically, researchers need to...
AI models let robots carry out tasks in unfamiliar environments
These models were deployed on Stretch, a robot consisting of a wheeled unit, a tall pole, and a retractable arm...
Flu season is coming—and so is the risk of an all-new bird flu
I was reminded of that fact when my littlest woke me for an early-morning cuddle, sneezed into my face, and...
The Download: bird flu concerns, and tracking AI’s impact on elections
Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale is likely to be far worse than...
How AI can help spot wildfires
Anything from stray fireworks to lightning strikes can start a wildfire. While it’s natural for many ecosystems to see some...
Why virologists are getting increasingly nervous about bird flu
And while many ducks and geese seem to be able to survive being infected with the virus, other bird species...
AI-generated content doesn’t seem to have swayed recent European elections
Those fears seem to have been unwarranted, says Sam Stockwell, the researcher at the Alan Turing Institute who conducted the...
The Download: Congress’s AI bills, and Snap’s new AR spectacles
More than 120 bills related to regulating artificial intelligence are currently floating around the US Congress. This flood of bills...
There are more than 120 AI bills in Congress right now
The lack of a focus on equity and minority issues came into view during the Senate markup session at the...