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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…
Africa’s AI researchers are ready for takeoff
Tech companies have been funneling billions of dollars into quantum computers for years. The hope is that…
Generative AI taught a robot dog to scramble around a new environment
Researchers used the system, called LucidSim, to train a robot dog in parkour, getting it to scramble over a…
The Download: AI in Africa, and reporting in the age of Trump
It is easy to convince ourselves that we now live in a dematerialized ethereal world, ruled by digital startups,…
Science and technology stories in the age of Trump
Some of these changes will be well outside our lane as a publication. But very many of President-elect Trump’s…
A bold AI movement is underway in Africa—but it’s being held up
It’s unclear what’s behind the second strategy, but Seydina Ndiaye, a program director at the Cheikh Hamidou…
The Download: AI vs quantum, and the future of reproductive rights in the…
Tech companies have been funneling billions of dollars into quantum computers for years. The hope is that…