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Suddenly, everyone wants to talk about how to regulate AI

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared before a US Senate committee to talk about the risks and potential of AI language models. Altman, along with many senators, called for international standards... Read more »

Food delivery by drone is just part of daily life in Shenzhen

The workflow is a mix of human and automated labor. Once the drone delivery system gets an order (customers order specific items marked for drone delivery in the company’s app), a runner... Read more »

Our quick guide to the 6 ways we can regulate AI

Everyone from tech company CEOs to US senators and leaders at the G7 meeting has in recent weeks called for international standards and stronger guardrails for AI technology. The good news? Policymakers... Read more »

Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages

There are around 7,000 languages in the world, but existing speech recognition models only cover approximately 100 languages comprehensively. This is because these kinds of models tend to require huge amounts of... Read more »

Brain waves can tell us how much pain someone is in

“The hope is that now that we know where these signals live, and now that we know what type of signals to look for, we could actually try to track them noninvasively,”... Read more »

The Download: rub-on gene therapy, and safeguarding email memories

The news: Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration approved sales of the first gene therapy that is directly applied to the body—as well as the first intended to be used... Read more »

How to preserve your digital memories

It got me thinking about my own email records, and the systems that we have—or, more precisely, don’t have—for preserving our digital lives.  Globally, around 347 billion emails are sent every day,... Read more »

The FDA just approved rub-on gene therapy that helps “butterfly” children

Krystal is among dozens of companies seeking innovative ways to deliver replacement genes to more locations in the human body, including hard-to-reach organs like the brain. “Delivery is the most important factor... Read more »

The Download: preserving digital lives, and more sensitive prostheses

Earlier this week, Google announced its intention to start deleting personal accounts that haven’t been active in over two years in December. Photos, emails, and docs attached to inactive accounts will all... Read more »

Your digital life isn’t as permanent as you think it is

It’s a lot to ask of tech companies to host all of our data indefinitely, says Caplan. Although data storage costs per unit have decreased by around 90% in the past decade,... Read more »