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This company plans to transplant gene-edited pig hearts into babies next year

The team at eGenesis is using CRISPR to address this risk. “You can use CRISPR-Cas9 to inactivate the 50 to 70 copies of retrovirus in the genome,” says Mike Curtis, president and... Read more »

The Download: heart transplants for babies, and Big Tech’s tax tracking

A biotech company called eGenesis is experimenting with transplanting the hearts of young gene-edited pigs into baby baboons as part of a study that could pave the way for similar transplants in... Read more »

How tech companies got access to our tax data

The tax companies shared the data through tracking pixels, which are used for advertising purposes, an investigative congressional report revealed on Wednesday. Many of them say they have removed the pixels, but it’s not... Read more »

This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year

The team at eGenesis is using CRISPR to address this risk. “You can use CRISPR-Cas9 to inactivate the 50 to 70 copies of retrovirus in the genome,” says Mike Curtis, president and... Read more »

Transforming business begins with IT

Laurel: That’s a great point about the partnership with Infosys, and in general, how you actually bring the data and predictive analytics to your capabilities because you do have so much data... Read more »

The Download: a new Turing test, and working with ChatGPT

—Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock, a venture capital firm. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence... Read more »

Mustafa Suleyman: My new Turing test would see if AI can make $1 million

But there’s now a problem: the Turing test has almost been passed—it arguably already has been. The latest generation of large language models, systems that generate text with a coherence that just... Read more »

Revived, implanted, and analyzed—the personal stories at the heart of cutting-edge biotech

We can also use cells from dead people to make babies. Who should get to decide how and when that technology is used, if ever? And then there’s the race to make... Read more »

ChatGPT can turn bad writers into better ones

Shakked Noy and Whitney Zhang recruited 453 marketers, data analysts, and college-educated professionals and got each of them to complete two kinds of tasks they’d normally undertake as part of their jobs,... Read more »

The Download: cleaning up shipping, and Elon Musk’s new AI startup

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk has unveiled his new startup, xAIBut his chances of overtaking OpenAI any time soon... Read more »