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Four trends that changed AI in 2023
Existential risk has become one of the biggest memes in AI. The hypothesis is that one day we will build an AI…
Developing climate solutions with green software
There's several standards that we've been focusing on in the Green Software Foundation, one's called the SEI,…
The Download: a microbiome gold rush, and Eric Schmidt’s election…
Over the last couple of decades, scientists have come to realize just how important the microbes that crawl all…
Get ready to fight misinformation in 2024. Eric Schmidt has advice.
One of the biggest areas to watch, of course, will be generative AI, particularly how it changes social media,…
The hunter-gatherer groups at the heart of a microbiome gold rush
The first step to finding out is to catalogue what microbes we might have lost. To get as close to ancient…
Eric Schmidt has a 6-point plan for fighting election misinformation
But that’s taken agency away from users (we don’t control what we see) and has instead left us with…
The Download: beyond CRISPR, and OpenAI’s superalignment findings
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Vertex developed a CRISPR cure. Now it wants a pill to treat sickle-cell…
Such drawbacks are why a pill to alleviate sickle-cell, if developed, could sweep CRISPR from the playing…
Needle-free covid vaccines are (still) in the works
The vaccine outlined in the recent Nature paper is meant to be inhaled. It is a subunit vaccine, meaning it…
Now we know what OpenAI’s superalignment team has been up to
OpenAI's approach to the superalignment problem.OPENAI The researchers point out that the problem is hard to…