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A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor
While the reactions tend to go faster at high temperature and pressure, the researchers found that ammonia…
The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention
Finding and diagnosing cancer is all about spotting patterns. Radiologists use x-rays and magnetic resonance…
Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer
In theory, artificial intelligence should be great at helping out. “Our job is pattern recognition,” says…
The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push
Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up…
The second wave of AI coding is here
Zencoder has hired a bunch of search engine veterans to help it build a tool that can analyze large codebases…
OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science
Although genetic engineers have ways to direct evolution of molecules in the lab, they can usually test only so…
The Download: How to save social media, and “leftover” embryos
—Eli Pariser & Deepti Doshi Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party…
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
At the core of Bluesky’s philosophy is the idea that instead of being centralized in the hands of one person or…
Deciding the fate of “leftover” embryos
No one knows for sure how many embryos are frozen in storage tanks, but the figure is thought to be somewhere…
The Download: what’s next for Neuralink, and Meta’s language translation AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…