Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three…
Beer, hydrogen, and heat: Why the US is still trying to make mirror-magnified solar energy work
The US is continuing its decades-long effort to commercialize a technology that converts sunlight into…
Google DeepMind’s new AI systems can now solve complex math problems
AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, they’re nowhere near…
“Copyright traps” could tell writers if an AI has scraped their work
Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work…
Roundtables: CRISPR Babies—Six years later
Recorded on July 25, 2024 CRISPR Babies: Six years later Speakers: He Jiankui, CRISPR Pioneer,…
How our genome is like a generative AI model
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The Download: AI’s math solutions, and brewing beer with sunlight
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage
AI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. But as…
The race to clean up heavy-duty trucks
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PsiQuantum plans to build the biggest quantum computing facility in the US
The quantum computing firm PsiQuantum is partnering with universities and a national lab to build…