The Download: the future of chips, and investing in US AI
Thanks to the boom in artificial intelligence, the world of chips is on the cusp of a huge tidal shift....
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What’s next in chips
Here are four trends to look for in the year ahead that will define what the chips of the future...
Eric Schmidt: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI
First, more dedicated government AI supercomputers need to be built for an array of missions ranging from classified intelligence processing...
AI systems are getting better at tricking us
The fact that an AI model has the potential to behave in a deceptive manner without any direction to do...
Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military
No one can make that choice for you. But I can say with confidence born of experience that such choices...
The Download: mapping the human brain, and a Hong Kong protest anthem crackdown
The news: A team led by scientists from Harvard and Google has created a 3D, nanoscale-resolution map of a single...
The burgeoning field of brain mapping
The work I wrote about last year is part of the $3 billion federally funded Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative...
Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its ban on a popular protest song
The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, not...
Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain
Many other brain atlases exist, but most provide much lower-resolution data. At the nanoscale, researchers can trace the brain’s wiring...
The Download: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla’s EV charging meltdown
What’s new: Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures...
Why EV charging needs more than Tesla
Cutting emissions and remaking our economy will require buckling down to deploy and maintain solutions that we already know work,...
Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life
While the previous model, released in 2020, amazed the research community with its ability to predict proteins structures, researchers have...
The top 3 ways to use generative AI to empower knowledge workers
Our approach When it comes to AI at Adobe, my team has taken a comprehensive approach that includes investment in...
Multimodal: AI’s new frontier
A technology that sees the world from different angles We are not there yet. The furthest advances in this direction...
The Download: deepfakes of the dead, and why it’s time to embrace fake meat
There are plenty of people like Sun who want to use AI to preserve, animate, and interact with lost loved...
China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead
Deepfake technologies have evolved to the point where it’s now easy and affordable to clone people’s looks and voices with...
The way whales communicate is closer to human language than we realized
A team of researchers led by Pratyusha Sharma at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) working with Project...
Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
In Chinese homes, it’s common to put up a portrait of a deceased relative for a few years after the...
How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meat
“Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri...
The Download: synthetic cow embryos, and AI jobs of the future
About a decade ago, biologists started to observe that stem cells, left alone in a walled plastic container, will spontaneously...