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An AI that can design new proteins could help unlock new cures and materials 

The new tool, ProteinMPNN, described by a group of researchers from the University of Washington in two papers published in Science today (available here and here), offers a powerful complement to that... Read more »

Customer experience and the future of work

Major trends such as the impact of covid-19 on accelerating digital commerce, remote and hybrid working, and changing employee expectations driving the “great resignation” are having profound effects on workforce strategies in... Read more »

An AI used medical notes to teach itself to spot disease on chest x-rays

The research, described in Nature Biomedical Engineering, found that the model was more effective at identifying issues such as pneumonia, collapsed lungs, and lesions than other self-supervised AI models. In fact, it... Read more »

Using governance to spur, not stall, data access for analytics

In this way, governance is planned and executed to create competitive advantage, addressing policy compliance, security, accessibility, and usability in a frictionless and comprehensive manner. This in turn speeds the availability of... Read more »

The Download: The Merge arrives, and China’s AI image censorship

The dark secret behind those cute AI-generated animal images. Google Brain revealed its own image-making AI, called Imagen, earlier this year. But don’t expect to see anything that isn’t wholesome. Read the... Read more »

The Merge is here: Ethereum has switched to proof of stake

We won’t know right away whether the Merge—the moment when Ethereum’s main network joins with the layer that is using the new consensus mechanism—lives up to its transformative promise. Some of the... Read more »

There’s no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI

In today’s China, social media companies usually have proprietary lists of sensitive words, built from both government instructions and their own operational decisions. This means whatever filter ERNIE-ViLG employs is likely to... Read more »

The Download: quantum-resistant algorithms, and Google’s antitrust challenge

Cryptographic algorithms are what keep us safe online, protecting our privacy and securing the transfer of information. But many experts fear that quantum computers could one day break these algorithms, leaving us... Read more »

What are quantum-resistant algorithms—and why do we need them?

Luckily, symmetric-key encryption methods are not in danger because they work very differently and can be secured by simply increasing the size of the keys they use—that is, unless mathematicians can come... Read more »

Strengthening the fabric of digital trust

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” A study of how cybersecurity has evolved across key domains in the industry and what it means for... Read more »