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OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold

This new AI energy race is inseparable from the positioning of AI as essential for national security and US competitiveness with China. OpenAI laid out its position in a blog post in... Read more »

OpenAI ups its lobbying efforts nearly seven-fold

This new AI energy race is inseparable from the positioning of AI as essential for national security and US competitiveness with China. OpenAI laid out its position in a blog post in... Read more »

There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race

Fortunately, a glimmer of hope for a responsible approach to AI collaboration is appearing now as Donald Trump recently  posted on January 17 that he’d restarted direct dialogue with Chairman Xi Jinping regarding various... Read more »

A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor

While the reactions tend to go faster at high temperature and pressure, the researchers found that ammonia production could be an economically viable process even at 130 °C (266 °F) and a... Read more »

The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention

Finding and diagnosing cancer is all about spotting patterns. Radiologists use x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging to illuminate tumors, and pathologists examine tissue from kidneys, livers, and other areas under microscopes. They... Read more »

Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer

In theory, artificial intelligence should be great at helping out. “Our job is pattern recognition,” says Andrew Norgan, a pathologist and medical director of the Mayo Clinic’s digital pathology platform. “We look at... Read more »

The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push

Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding. Everyone from established AI giants to buzzy startups is... Read more »

The second wave of AI coding is here

Zencoder has hired a bunch of search engine veterans to help it build a tool that can analyze large codebases and figure out what is and isn’t relevant. This detailed context reduces... Read more »

OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science

Although genetic engineers have ways to direct evolution of molecules in the lab, they can usually test only so many possibilities. And even a protein of typical length can be changed in... Read more »

The Download: how to save social media, and “leftover” embryos

—Eli Pariser & Deepti Doshi Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a shocking pivot, but not exactly surprising. It’s just the latest example of... Read more »