To this end, the latest draft law talks about the need to use “diverse methods such as statistical methods, modeling, and field certification” to conduct credit assessments and combine the data from... Read more »

Unlike existing robots on the market, such as Boston Dynamics’ Spot, which moves around using internal maps, this robot uses cameras alone to guide its movements in the wild, says Ashish Kumar,... Read more »

Sara Ord has one of the most futuristic job titles around—director of species restoration at Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first “de-extinction” company. Her team is figuring out how to turn Asian elephants... Read more »

The nation is entering markets already crowded with international rivals, many of which have been investing billions for decades. China alone has spent more than $50 billion to establish control of virtually... Read more »

If they can make a dunnart cell with enough thylacine DNA, the next step is to use cloning to try to create an embryo—and, eventually, an animal. Another project involves trying to... Read more »

However, Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take it seriously. Galactica is a large language model for science, trained on 48 million examples of... Read more »

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk’s demands for loyalty triggered an exodus of Twitter workersHundreds of employees chose to quit instead of... Read more »

However, Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take it seriously. Galactica is a large language model for science, trained on 48 million scientific articles,... Read more »

Central to these negotiations is a question: who is responsible for climate change? The issue is complicated, but a few pieces of data about current and past emissions can begin to answer... Read more »