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The Download: A CRISPR patent battle, and the promise of tiny AI
In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common for lawyers to…
Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island
That nuclear power plant is typically associated with a very specific event. One of its reactors, Unit 2,…
Want AI that flags hateful content? Build it.
Participating developers will make two different models. The first, for those with intermediate skill sets, is…
Roundtables: Putting AI’s Climate Impact Into Perspective
The latest iteration of a legacyFounded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology…
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…
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…
The Download: How to connect the US’s grids, and OpenAI’s new…
Michael Skelly hasn’t learned to take no for an answer. For much of the last 15 years, the energy entrepreneur…
Why one developer won’t quit fighting to connect the US’s grids
These long, high, thick wires are often described as the highways of our power systems. They connect the big…
OpenAI released its advanced voice mode to more people. Here’s how to get…
The update also adds new voices. Shortly after the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI was criticized for the similarity…
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…