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A controversial Chinese CRISPR scientist is still hopeful about embryo gene-editing. Here’s why.

Last Thursday, JK, who was released from prison in 2022, sat down with Antonio and Mat Honan, our editor in chief, for a live broadcast conversation on the experiment, his current situation,... Read more »

The US physics community is not done working on trust

Alas, a pattern of similar behavior has been known for at least two decades. The history of such deceptions led the American Physical Society (APS) to study occurrences of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism,... Read more »

OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT bot that you can talk to

The voice mode is powered by OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model, which combines voice, text, and vision capabilities. To gather feedback, the company is initially launching the chatbot to a “small group of... Read more »

The Download: rebuilding economic security, and solving math problems

—Edlyn V. Levine is CEO and co-founder of a stealth-mode technology start up and an affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management and the Department of Physics at Harvard University.  Fiona Murray... Read more »

How the US and its allies can rebuild economic security

The missing middle of technology investment—insufficient funding for commercial production—is evident in each and every one of these failures, but the loss of expertise is an added dimension. For example, lithium polymer... Read more »

How machines that can solve complex math problems might usher in more powerful AI

But the news item that really stood out to me was one that didn’t get as much attention as it should have. It has the potential to usher in more powerful AI... Read more »

The Download: the future of CRISPR babies, and investing in climate tech

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at... Read more »

From Meta CTO to climate tech investor: Mike Schroepfer on his big pivot

We’re here to prove that if you pick the right climate tech companies with the right founders, that can be an amazing business. They’re disrupting trillion-dollar industries, and so you ought to... Read more »

Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around

The subject is genome editing. Of course, it’s a technology for changing the DNA inside of individual cells, including embryos. It’s hard to overstate its importance. I put it up there with... Read more »

The Download: AI’s math solutions, and brewing beer with sunlight

AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, they’re nowhere near as good at solving math problems, which tend to involve logical reasoning—something that’s beyond the capabilities of... Read more »