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Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its new ban of a popular protest song

The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, unlike a criminal prosecution—meaning it is, at least legally speaking, closer to a... Read more »

Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain

Many other brain atlases exist, but most provide much lower-resolution data. At the nanoscale, researchers can trace the brain’s wiring one neuron at a time to the synapses, the places where they... Read more »

The Download: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla’s EV charging meltdown

What’s new: Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures not only of proteins but of nearly all the elements of biological... Read more »

Why EV charging needs more than Tesla

Cutting emissions and remaking our economy will require buckling down to deploy and maintain solutions that we already know work, whether that’s in transportation or any other sector. For EV charging, and... Read more »

Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life

While the previous model, released in 2020, amazed the research community with its ability to predict proteins structures, researchers have been clamoring for the tool to handle more than just proteins.  Now,... Read more »

The top 3 ways to use generative AI to empower knowledge workers 

Our approach When it comes to AI at Adobe, my team has taken a comprehensive approach that includes investment in foundational AI, strategic adoption, an AI ethics framework, legal considerations, security, and... Read more »

Multimodal: AI’s new frontier

A technology that sees the world from different angles We are not there yet. The furthest advances in this direction have occurred in the fledgling field of multimodal AI. The problem is... Read more »

The Download: deepfakes of the dead, and why it’s time to embrace fake meat

There are plenty of people like Sun who want to use AI to preserve, animate, and interact with lost loved ones as they mourn and try to heal. The market is particularly... Read more »

China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead

Deepfake technologies have evolved to the point where it’s now easy and affordable to clone people’s looks and voices with AI. Meanwhile, large language models mean it’s more feasible than ever before... Read more »

The way whales communicate is closer to human language than we realized

A team of researchers led by Pratyusha Sharma at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) working with Project CETI, a nonprofit focused on using AI to understand whales, used statistical... Read more »