The Download: inverse vaccines, and Microsoft’s big deal
On the whole, typical vaccines prime the immune system to respond. But scientists are also working on “inverse vaccines” that...
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GM And Stellantis Layoffs Number Thousands As Strike Tensions Escalate
(Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)AFP via Getty ImagesKey takeaways GM and Stellantis have laid off a collective 2,300 workers...
How inverse vaccines might tackle diseases like multiple sclerosis
Last week Jeffrey Hubbell and his colleagues at the University of Chicago reported that an inverse vaccine they developed had...
Bolstering enterprise LLMs with machine learning operations foundations
Once these components are in place, more complex LLM challenges will require nuanced approaches and considerations—from infrastructure to capabilities, risk...
Neuralink Human Trials Set To Begin As Elon Musk Starts Recruiting For Candidates. Can You Invest In It?
(Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesKey takeaways Neuralink is looking for human candidates to test...
The Download: what’s next for supercomputers, and electrifying everything
August 2022 We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk...
How electricity could clean up transportation, steel, and even fertilizer
I’m starting to feel that way about “Electrify everything,” a common refrain in climate circles. The basic concept is a...
What’s next for the world’s fastest supercomputers
To use Frontier, approved scientists log in to the supercomputer remotely, submitting their jobs over the internet. To make the...
New approaches to the tech talent shortage
A 2021 Gartner survey of IT executives shows that a majority — 64% — believe the ongoing tech talent shortage...
Make Machine Learning Work for You
IBM reveals that nearly half of the challenges related to AI adoption focus on data complexity (24%) and difficulty integrating...
Moving data through the supply chain with unprecedented speed
Driving adoption of this phygital connection are technological enablement and standards for interoperability. Standards define a common language between technologies...
The Download: AI movie soundtracks, and DeepMind’s disease prediction tool
1 Google’s Bard AI is everywhere nowIn your Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs accounts, at least. (NYT $)+ It’s a...
Ed Tilly, Cboe Global Markets CEO, Resigns Over Undisclosed Relationships
(Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesKey takeaways Cboe’s CEO has resigned over undisclosed personal relationships with...
The deepfake avatars who want to sell you everything
But with large language models and text-to-speech technologies, these AI streamers can say whatever you want them to say—meaning they...
DeepMind is using AI to pinpoint the causes of genetic disease
With the rise of gene sequencing, doctors can now decode people’s genomes and then scour the DNA data for possible...
Morgan Stanley’s AI Assistant Marks New Era For Finance Sector
(Photo by Michael Lawrence/Getty Images for Morgan Stanley)Getty Images for Morgan StanleyKey takeaways Morgan Stanley has unveiled its new internal...
A Disney director tried—and failed—to use an AI Hans Zimmer to create a soundtrack
Edwards, who ended up using the real, flesh-and-blood human Hans Zimmer for the soundtrack of his movie, said he played...
The Download: AI to cure diseases, and China’s deepfake influencers
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are cofounders and co-CEOs of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Cells are key to understanding disease—yet...
How AI can help us understand how cells work—and help cure diseases
Already, research teams have made discoveries using these well-curated data sets. One discovered that the broken gene linked to cystic...
Meet the next generation of AI superstars
We’ve previously highlighted some of the most promising people in tech before they became household names. In 2002, the list...