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Why the term “women of childbearing age” is problematic for…
This lack of research goes some way to explaining why women are much more likely to experience side effects…
The Download: Diversifying AI voices, and a science-fiction glimpse into…
The big story How environmental DNA is giving scientists a new way to understand our world February…
How this grassroots effort could make AI voices more diverse
Ryakitimbo has collected voice data in Kiswahili in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She…
The Download: understanding AI, and what to expect from the UN’s climate…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
What’s on the table at this year’s UN climate conference
As I covered last week, Trump’s election will almost certainly result in less progress on cutting emissions…
Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
Neuronpedia, a platform for mechanistic interpretability, partnered with DeepMind in July to build a demo of…
Unlocking the mysteries of complex biological systems with agentic AI
Agentic AI is not just another tool in the scientific toolkit but a paradigm shift: by allowing autonomous…
The Download: The lab fighting exploitative AI, and plant engineering
Back in 2022, the tech community was buzzing over image-generating AI models, such as Midjourney, Stable…
The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI
Yet it is “simplistic to think that if you have a real security problem in the wild and you’re trying to design…
The Download: Parkour for robot dogs, and Africa’s AI ambitions
Teaching robots to navigate new environments is tough. You can train them on physical, real-world data taken…